Glory Glory be to Chocolate
Mindmap for analysing "Glory Glory be to Chocolate" by John Agard
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- Created on: 14-04-14 14:36
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- Glory Glory be to Chocolate
- Word Choice
- "Need"
- Chocolate is a necessity
- women are dependent on chocolate
- "bells"
- connotations of church, holiness
- uplifting
- contrast with references to Satanism
- "little imps"
- connotations of mischief/ the devil
- cute but naughty
- "how dare they"
- chocolate is serious business
- impassioned
- "Theobroma Cacao"
- latin name for plant which produces coco
- personification-- sounds like a name
- latin has connotations of religion, esp. catholicism and satanism
- "Need"
- Grammar
- "Food cravings... blessing"
- all in declaratives
- factual and authoritative
- "manifestations--"
- hyphen creates anticipation
- "Food cravings... blessing"
- Figurative language
- "so I say it twice"
- imitating a preacher
- "O"
- imitating a hymn o prayer
- "divine barbaric"
- juxtaposition
- oxymoron
- naughty but nice
- "minted"
- pun--mint chocolate
- "imps"
- metaphor for chocolate
- personifies chocolate as mischievous
- "so I say it twice"
- Sound patterning
- "brownies candies cookies"
- list with no comma--mimesis of speed
- asyndetic list
- eagerness or excitement
- mimic chanting--reverence
- "Glory glory"
- repetition for reverence
- similar to a football chant
- "brownies candies cookies"
- Structure
- last three stanzas-- length decreases by one line until coda
- creates anticipation of conclusion
- Begins with quote
- introduce themes
- professional opinion to support the rest of the poem
- last three stanzas-- length decreases by one line until coda
- Context
- CoR
- upper/middle class women feeling guilty about eating chocolate
- published in "From the Devil's Pulpit" anthology--already established sinful connotations
- well-known poet, people likely to seek out his work
- CoP
- Agard born in Guyana, links to invention of chocolate
- published 1997, soon after "Naughty but Nice" ads
- CoR
- Link to
- Nigella recipe and transcript
- overindulgence vs self-control
- "The Butcher's Shop"
- good sin vs bad sin
- what we should/should not eat
- Nigella recipe and transcript
- Word Choice
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