amends
- Created by: rubyella24
- Created on: 28-12-19 15:19
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- Amends
- Purpose
- ecological- implies the healing work needs to continue to be done
- Tone
- sad, regretful mood as moon attempts to make amends
- Content
- describes the purity of moonlight as it passes over and soaks into the face of the Earth
- the purity of light is being wielded as a weapon for the good of the Earth
- Structure
- poem's movement is hesitant, fits and starts, ends openly without a full stop= acceleration and release
- poem is one long sentence (lack of punctuation), enjambment
- 'as if' repeated - trying to make up for something, or a fanciful conceit that the moon could heal a landscape?
- focus on movement of moonlight
- 'as it' - anaphora, progress of moonlight, rhetorical momentum, moon is ubiquitous
- Analysis
- Stanza four
- 'soaks'- liquidlike, moon's constant quality is liquidness, gathering energy
- 'trailers'- poor people, damage to environment made them worse off
- 'tremulous'-shaking and afraid/troubled, vs moon which is smooth and gentle
- 'dwells upon the eyelids'- protection, caring, comfort
- 'as if'
- Stanza three
- 'the gash' (this line)- moon takes on deliberate agency, volta shifts focus of poem
- 'quarry'- humans destroying environment
- 'hangared fuselage'- light shines off man-made objects in a stunted way compared to nature
- 'crop-dusting plane'- man-made landscape
- Stanza two
- 'greater stones'- broader range of view, light is more passive at this point
- 'laying its cheek'- relaxing, sense of touch, feminine, nurturing, loving (moon associated with Diana, Artemis)
- 'sand'- relaxation
- 'flows'- easing landscape's pain, uncontrolled yet relaxed
- 'flicks/licks'- rhyme, gentle, intimate relatioship
- 'it'- reader forgets its moonlight- adds to personification
- Stanza one
- 'nights like this'- Merchant of Venice opening lines A5, sets scene, links with moon. abrupt pause- disrupts flow of language, suddenness
- 'cold'- chilly atmosphere, at night, harsh
- 'exploding'- violent, harsh, interrupts silence
- 'picking'- personifies moon, selective, reflecting off some stones more
- Stanza four
- Purpose
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