The Gun By Vicki Feaver
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- Created on: 15-02-17 11:01
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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
- Death has caused their relationship and the house to be revived.
- 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
- Connotations of killing, defense, hunting and protection.
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