Tiger in the Menagerie
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- Created on: 04-02-17 09:45
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- Tiger in the Menagerie by Emma Jones
- Appreciation for the deadly beauty of the tiger
- The tiger has come to upset the civilised affair, that is the menagerie
- Bright colour: offensive behaviour
- Metaphor or analogy for the violence that exists within us all, no matter how civilised we think we are
- Completely irregular in terms of rhyme
- Theme: delusions of mankind as to our true nature
- Tried to disguise this as part of our past
- Menagerie is a very civilised way to examine our former selves
- It all goes wrong and the tiger runs amok showing that our true nature cannot be caged and will always remain free
- Metaphor or analogy for the violence that exists within us all, no matter how civilised we think we are
- Completely irregular in terms of rhyme
- Tried to disguise this as part of our past
- The tiger eventually gets tamed and cannot leave the menagerie
- Stanza 3 - taming
- Stanza 3 has two lines that are the direct inverse of each other
- Depicts complete camouflage
- Stanza 3 has two lines that are the direct inverse of each other
- Couldn't leave
- "If the menagerie could, it would say 'tiger'"
- "When the tiger came inside to wait"
- Stanza 3 - taming
- The tiger dreams of its previous life
- Stanza 4
- The tiger eventually gets tamed and cannot leave the menagerie
- Stanza 3 - taming
- Stanza 3 has two lines that are the direct inverse of each other
- Depicts complete camouflage
- Stanza 3 has two lines that are the direct inverse of each other
- Couldn't leave
- "If the menagerie could, it would say 'tiger'"
- "When the tiger came inside to wait"
- Stanza 3 - taming
- The structure of the poem, has a stripy pattern
- Length of lines in each stanza
- The number of lines in each paragraph
- Enjambment from the second stanza to the fifth
- Shows the quickly changing nature of people and animals alike
- These stanzas are in contrast with the others where everything is explained slowly
- Appreciation for the deadly beauty of the tiger
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