'The Gun'- Vicki Feaver
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- Created on: 09-03-18 12:03
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- 'The Gun'- Vicki Feaver
- IMAGERY
- The lurking ominous appearance of the gun on the kitchen table in the opening
- "like something dead"
- The juxtaposition of a domestic image of a "kitchen table" coupled with the "long metal barrel" of the gun, less domestic image
- The dead animals in the progression
- Put into the progression to enhance the shift of the impact the gun has on the house
- "perforating tins" to "rabbit shot clean through the head"
- "fills with creatures", emphasis on "run and flown" to be no more
- Animals lack of freedom
- The image of death and its king in the close
- Has almost altered reality in the house
- Evokes morbid imagery and a sense of evil within the house
- "his black mouth sprouting gold crocuses"
- "excited as if the King of Death had arrived to feast, staking out of winter woods"
- The lurking ominous appearance of the gun on the kitchen table in the opening
- STRUCTURE
- Two lines isolated from rest of the poem
- 1-"Bringing a gun into a house changes it"
- 2-"A gun brings a house alive"
- 1-"Bringing a gun into a house changes it"
- The second isolated line answers the first one
- Almost a sense of satisfaction, as if the gun was the answer to their marital problems
- Justification of the gun being in house
- Puts major significance on the impact the gun has
- Almost idolised?
- Allows reader to question the use of guns
- "Bringing a gun into a house changes it"
- First line to engage and establish the focus on the gun, although brings ambiguity
- Feaver establishes the change later on
- Reference to change mirrors the varying line/stanza lengths
- Emphasises the impact of gun, reinforces the first line
- First line to engage and establish the focus on the gun, although brings ambiguity
- Ever-changing line and stanza length
- Reflects the everlasting impact on the house from the moment the gun appears in it
- Could foreshadow the foreboding doom and consequences of the gun?
- A sense of uncertainty and danger which thrills the narrator
- Use of punctuation, mostly commas, shifts lines abruptly and mirrors the sounds and sudden impact of the gun and its bullets "shot clean through the head"
- Two lines isolated from rest of the poem
- FORM
- Tone changes just like the line lengths
- Tone fluctuates from casual to serious
- "At first" which progresses onto "Soon"
- Reflects the addiction for destruction, fueled by the gun and its brutal nature
- "soon the fridge fills with creatures", which then puts "a spring in your step"
- Reflects the addiction for destruction, fueled by the gun and its brutal nature
- Could foreshadow the danger to the reader although the narrator seems to take it less seriously, and cherishes it
- "soon the fridge fills with creatures", which then puts "a spring in your step"
- "At first" which progresses onto "Soon"
- Tone fluctuates from casual to serious
- Tone changes just like the line lengths
- LANGUAGE
- Destructive language builds up as poem progresses
- "shot clean through the head"
- "you trample fur and feathers"
- Speeds the pace of the poem
- Could reflect the thrill the characters feel?
- Could mirror the addiction rapidly growing?
- Sense of satisfaction/enjoyment for the reader?
- Animalistic yet suggestive language
- "your eyes gleam like when sex was fresh"
- Very direct here, forceful and explicit due to the power the gun has given the male
- "Your hands reek of gun oil and entrails"
- Changes the relationship
- "your eyes gleam like when sex was fresh"
- Destructive language builds up as poem progresses
- IMAGERY
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