The Gun
- Created by: Lottie Deutsch
- Created on: 23-12-18 09:03
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- The Gun
- Stanza 1 - 2
- big gap between first and second stanza suggests big change gun brings
- 'lay it...stretched out like something dead'
- personification of gun - makes it feel more alive
- irony of gun being something dead when it kills
- 'the long metal barrel casting a grey shadow
- sounds ominous and negative juxtaposes the 'green-checked cloth' - living vs dead
- 'grainy polished wood stock' - uses hard plosive sounds like a gun
- Stanza 3
- 'at first it's just pratice'
- suggests something innocence, use of the word 'just' suggesting have little of a deal it is
- 'peforating tins...on orange string' - light-hearted fun
- 'then a rabbit shot clean through the head'
- change in tone, suggests a growth in skill
- one line ending in a full stop suggests clean shot it took to kill the rabbit
- personification of tins through 'dangling' - suggests gun has taken their life
- we sense it's growing power
- the contrast of innocence and deadilness of gun makes what gun can do more impactful
- 'at first it's just pratice'
- Stanza 4 - 5
- 'fridge fills' - alliteration emphasises the growth of animals in the fridge
- use of past tense 'have run' - how quickly guns kill
- speaker is suggested not to like the gun 'reek of entrails' - 'trample' - negative relation to un
- the gun user is presented as sadistic, 'like when sex was fresh' - primitive about their behaviour enjoy killing
- 'a gun brings a house alive'
- we see a change from the original introductory line
- change in standpoint of you the narrator
- on one line instead of split across two, as before, suggests house feels complete
- we see a change from the original introductory line
- Stanza 6
- 'I join in' - the gun is narrating suggesting it has become so alive it has taken over the house
- something sexual in the way the describe the cooking: 'slicing, stirring and tasting'
- 'excited as if the King of Death... sprouting golden crocuses'
- idea that out of death comes life - mirrors old pagan religiion
- idea embodied through poem 'gun brings a house alive'
- idea that out of death comes life - mirrors old pagan religiion
- title
- gun holds negative connotations immediately giving the reader a bad impression going into the poem
- the use 'the' makes it specific and more ominous
- structure
- constantly changing lines length shows results and remerfacation of using guns
- uses of punctuation mirrors sound of bullets
- the colognes act as an aggressive caesura breaking up the lines - unnatural guns are
- Stanza 1 - 2
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