Assisi Norman MacCaig
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- Created on: 15-01-18 17:51
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- Assisi
- Form and Sturcture
- seperated into three seperate stanzas 1- dwarf 2- priest 3- tourists
- the poem is written in free verse usign irregular stanzas to create a conversational style
- language is deliberatley unsophisticated and even at times menosyllabic
- Stanza 1
- Focus is on the beggar himself
- "with his hands on backwards"
- imagery is almost grotesque and shows condition of man
- sat, slumped like a half-fileld sack
- the sibilance of the simile creates a vivid image suggesting he csnt support his frmae
- tiny twisted legs
- this figure is no longer like a man more like shell of a human
- three tiers oof churches built
- MacCaig deliberately juxtaposes this pitiful, crooked, pathetic individual against the grand backdrop
- stanza 2
- Focus is shifted onto priest
- mood changes to anger
- " the cleverness"
- stanza ends on a caustic note and dismisses the expertise of the priest
- "reveal to the illiterate the goodness"
- shows hypocracy of priest as hes supposed to be devoted to bible yet he seems unaffected by the beggar
- It is clear the speaker is offended by the obvious intellectual pride the priest demonstrates when he discusses Giotto’s work.
- Stanza 3
- attention turns to toursits
- "clucking contentently"
- here we see the speaker comparing the tourists to mindless chickens
- "fluttered after him"
- this analogy shows the contempt the speaker holds for the tourist
- " the grain of the word"
- This is a deliberately ironic allusion to the biblical Parable of the Sower in which Jesus uses the symbol of seeds to represent the word of God.
- It was they who had passed/the ruined temple outside.
- wept pus
- back is higher than his head
- lopsided
- Grazie
- Form and Sturcture
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