The Gun By Vicki Feaver 

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  • The Gun By Vicki Feaver
    • Connotations of killing, defense, hunting and protection.
      • The shape of the gun is also a phallic symbol.
      • Violence leads to fear, death but also excitement.
    • "Bringing a gun into a house changes it."
      • Nonchalnt  (calm & Relaxed) Statement
      • Reader questions what changes, the house or the gun, or both, creates ambiguity?
      • Statement is composed in the second person perspective.
    • "A gun brings a house alive"
      • Stansa is isolated and uniquely positioned to standout creating emphasis the guns influence within the household.
      • Before the house was portrayed as dead, it has now been revitalized.
        • Death has caused their relationship and the house to be revived.
          • Juxtaposition
          • Dark Irony
      • The gun resembling the phallic symbol has brought the house to life just as phallic objects are also used to create life.
      • Paradox; Gun brings house alive, but in reality guns are used to kill.
    • Soon the fridge fills with creatures
      • Juxtaposition, creatures which were once alive and flying are now dead in a fridge.
      • Continued theme of transition between death and living.
    • Enjambment and line breaks enact the violent encounter between the human and animal worlds throughout the poem.
    • Poem challenges taboos relating to hunting and female attitudes towards violence.
      • The woman conforms by transforming the kills into meals.
      • Ambiguity suggesting that she enjoys the thrill of the hunt

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