Text 1 Butcher's Shop
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- Created on: 02-04-15 16:32
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- Text 1 The Butcher's Shop
- Graphology
- Sonnet 14 lines long
- Does not appear to conventional form with no use of stanzas
- Long Asyndetic Listing
- Vivid Visualisation
- Phonology
- Use of alliteration adds rhythm
- Short sentences which create a steady tempo
- 'Fingers fat as sausages' suggests a negative connotation
- Grammar
- Informal use of grammar since the narrator is reflecting childhood memories
- Declarative sentences used to describe the butcher shop
- Use of personal pronouns makes us feel guilty
- Use of commas to create a sinister tone
- Lexis
- Formal use of language relicts formality of subject matter
- Political lexical field
- Figurative language acts to dehumanise butcher
- Line 7-9 juxtaposes to the rest of the poem due to idyllic description
- Context of production and reception and attitudes and values
- The poem form a collection called 'The way we cam e and was published in 2007
- Might of changed audience perception on meat/ butchers
- Based on Angela Topping feelings of Butcher shops when younger
- Attitude to meat rather ambivalent
- Purpose audience and form
- To contrast a childs and an adults view
- Topping does not distinguish anaudince although graphic imagery may not be suitable for children
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