Manifesto
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- Created on: 14-04-14 20:55
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- Manifesto
- Form
- Villanelle
- The title suggests a public declaration by a political party of its policies for an electrion campaign
- Supposed to be an impersonal publication
- But here is suggests an overwhelming longing for change+ love
- Supposed to be an impersonal publication
- Stanza 1
- Opening
- Reflects a double-edged view of love
- Through the practical "work"
- Emphasised by the caesura
- And the elevated vision of "art"
- Captured through the masculine rhyme
- And the elevated vision of "art"
- Emphasised by the caesura
- Through the practical "work"
- Reflects a double-edged view of love
- Similar pattern of contrasts in the next 2 lines
- As in the 1st line
- The ordinary words lead to extraordinary
- The speaker begins with the colloquial "muster"
- And ends with romantic diction
- E.g. "poems"+ "heart"
- And ends with romantic diction
- The speaker begins with the colloquial "muster"
- The ordinary words lead to extraordinary
- As in the 1st line
- The repeated "t" sounds suggest the urgency of her longing
- Opening
- Stanza 2
- Swift rhythm
- Short stanzas
- Frequent rhyme
- Juxtaposition of colloquial phrases with heightened language
- Helpless question
- "Allegoric"- reference to the figure of Cupid
- The suffering of love
- Emphasised by the abrupt "Pierced"
- Positioned at the beginning of the line+ stanza
- Emphasised by the abrupt "Pierced"
- Swift rhythm
- Stanza 3
- Irony in the title enacted throughout the poem
- The Manifesto doesn't yet exist+ still has to be written
- Hence, the frequent use of the future tense
- Highlights the yearning+ restlessness in the speaker
- Hence, the frequent use of the future tense
- The Manifesto doesn't yet exist+ still has to be written
- Plain language+ Direct
- But there are ironies in the statements
- Touching blindness in what she does
- "Sit"- oddly passive
- We wonder if the poems will be anything more than "daydream"
- "Sit"- oddly passive
- Touching blindness in what she does
- But there are ironies in the statements
- Irony in the title enacted throughout the poem
- Stanza 4
- The speaker is a mixture of diffidence+ boldness
- As if her feelings are hidden/ too difficult to articulate
- She is sincere+ honest, but also suddenly assertive
- Albeit in colloquial language
- She is sincere+ honest, but also suddenly assertive
- As if her feelings are hidden/ too difficult to articulate
- The language is a blend of determination+ realism
- "Intend"- firm+ definite
- "Favourite"- seems a disappointing alternative to "lover"/ "beloved"
- "Intend"- firm+ definite
- The speaker is a mixture of diffidence+ boldness
- Stanza 5
- Bitter+ angry tone
- Coarse+ colloquial words
- Reflect an underlying frustration
- Half rhyme "spit" creates rage
- Reflect an underlying frustration
- Coarse+ colloquial words
- The refrain shows how the lover regains energy+ momentum
- The alliteration makes the rhythm of the voice swift+urgent
- Bitter+ angry tone
- Stanza 6
- Sustained irony
- Speaks in colloquial, rather than poetic lang
- The poem ends as she seems to be beginning
- We have no evidence of any of the writing
- Touching hyperbole
- Comically undermined by the colloquial half rhyme
- Touching hyperbole
- We have no evidence of any of the writing
- The poem ends as she seems to be beginning
- Speaks in colloquial, rather than poetic lang
- The search for love is relentless+ unstoppable
- The poem expands in length
- Ends with a bold couplet
- The yearning cannot be controlled/ confined
- Ends with a bold couplet
- The poem expands in length
- Sustained irony
- Form
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