Early Purges
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- Created on: 11-05-16 12:46
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- Early Purges
- Meaning
- getting rid of unwanted things
- difference between farming and city life
- Language
- "glossy and dead" "soft paws scraping"
- Shock. Heaney realises there is no place for sentimentality on farms
- "Like wet gloves"
- inanimate, something familiar for reader to relate to
- "slung"
- "big rats, snared rabbits..."
- listed - insignificant
- extent to which killing occurs
- "prodded"
- plosive - viscous
- "'Bloody pups'" "'the scraggy wee shits"
- speaking to us - informal
- expletives - anger that city folk dissaprove
- convinces us to agree with him
- Reader taken into experience of living on a farm
- speaking to us - informal
- "'Prevention of cruelty' talk cuts ice in town"
- Bitter tone - farmers don't like the condemnation from townies
- mockery
- quotes headlines/ speech - memorable
- Bitter tone - farmers don't like the condemnation from townies
- "glossy and dead" "soft paws scraping"
- Structure
- divide
- farming and city views
- contrast
- farming and city views
- "summer drug/ Until I forgot them."
- enjambment
- stark - not a big deal on a farm despite being condemned by city people (majority of readers)
- enjambment
- divide
- Meaning
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