Farmhand
- Created by: Mackie1100
- Created on: 16-12-20 17:11
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- Farmhand
- Title
- Suggests man is suited to work in a farm
- Word 'hand' is repeated 3 times in stanza 3, suggests he uses his hands mostly in a farm
- Associated with manual labour
- What's It About?
- Describes the life of a farm harm and his personality. It describes his dreams and things he wishes he had
- He wants a girl, a love in his life, but feels he is incapable of being a love. He is too involved in his work as a farm hand
- He feels 'awkward', 'envious' of the 'sunday couples'
- Last stanza tells us he is in his element when working - 'effortless and strong' / 'like a lover' when listening to the tractor enginer
- Idea + Imagery
- Speaker = a direct address to a general audience
- visual imagery of how girls are moving - fragile, beautiful, creates to
- 'girls drifting like flowers'
- Seen as an outsider and a peripheral figure
- 'at the hall door'
- Something preventing him from entering the modern world (represented by dance)
- Laidback, careless
- 'hall door'
- Contrasts with him looking through the window
- interesting, ideally endearing character
- Not alone in life, he is social + confident enough to tell new jokes
- 'telling some new joke'
- 'slow growing ... mind'
- negative impression - is he uneducated / simple minded?
- Themes
- Love / relationships
- Work
- Individuals vs social groups
- Class
- Rhythm, Repetition + Rhyme
- Half rhymes, e.g. cigarette / night
- 'slow-growing, slowly'
- Repeating 'slow' twice emphasises his plodding, unsophisticated character
- Literary Techniques
- Contrasting views to the flower-like women and beliefs that he was not made for 'love-making'
- Simile describing girls links to farm and nature
- Metaphor: 'new tractor engine'
- Links to the beginning where they were dancing but now the 'song' is the new tractor
- Alliteration: 'listening like a lover to the song'
- Creates an idea of a beautiful image of him working, adding to the idea it is lingering - don't look down on him, he loves his work
- Lexical choices: 'yarn'
- Building a story
- Or dreaming this story he could have, but it isn't reality
- Onomatopoeia: 'ah'
- Connoting admiration
- Semantic field of farming
- 'sunburnt face' 'plough' 'crops' etc.
- creates harmony between man and his work + places him within context of farming
- Also visual imagery
- 'sunburnt face' 'plough' 'crops' etc.
- Structure
- Focal shifts are almost like pauses
- At end of stanza 1, peot decides to create a new line there as the pause represents him turning his eyes to look
- Caesura before 'Instead'
- Adds to instinctiveness
- Perhaps there is instincts to finding love, but that isn't' the case for him
- Instic of job and work are bigger
- Adds to instinctiveness
- 'Instead' (Placement)
- Stress on the word as he has 'awkward hopes' for love but his reality is manual work
- Focal shifts are almost like pauses
- Title
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