Punishment
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- Created on: 09-05-16 13:17
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- Punishment
- Meaning
- Human nature choose the easy way out
- do not accept blame
- Heaney included - guilty
- woman who had committed adultery punished by being buried in a bog - body preserved and found in Germany 1951
- Human nature choose the easy way out
- Language
- repeats "I"
- won't let you escape guilt
- sympathy
- unusual because adultery was still condemned
- sympathy
- won't let you escape guilt
- "frail rigging"
- so thin - vulnerable - condemns punishment
- "sapling" --> "brain-firkin"
- innocence and vulnerability reduced to nothing
- "Little adulteress"
- shows youth and innocence
- Oxmoron
- "My poor scapegoat"
- religious comparison - Jesus was blamed for everything
- personal
- religious comparison - Jesus was blamed for everything
- "stones of silnce"
- sibilant sounds - contempt
- repeats "I"
- Structure
- Long poem with short stanzas
- abrupt
- Lengthy descriptions of the girl
- tenderness
- Heaney is affected
- split tenses
- Repeatable, so relateable
- Long poem with short stanzas
- Form
- Changes tenses
- Dips in and out of past/present
- Looks at all time to show that nothing ever changes
- Separated into 3 sections - past, hinge between, and present
- Separated into 3 sections - past, hinge between, and present
- Looks at all time to show that nothing ever changes
- Dips in and out of past/present
- In columns / split page
- Inner divide within Heaney
- committed crime but still human
- Past repeats itself
- viscous cycle
- Inner divide within Heaney
- Changes tenses
- Meaning
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