Sunny Prestatyn Flashcards

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Key themes & attitudes in the poem (6)

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  • Women are innocent and pure
  • Women are glamourous and sexual
  • Women are objectified and abused by men
  • Men abuse women because they feel sexually inadequate
  • British society was weakened by these attitudes
  • It’s important to view lifes flaws
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Contexts evident in the poem (5)

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  • Focus on everyday
  • Accessible ideas and language
  • Craft of the Poet (The Movement)
  • Mid 20th Century views of women
  • Rise of advertising
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Comedic elements in the poem (7)

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  • Bawdy language
  • Colloquial language
  • Happiness
  • Exaggeration
  • Dark undercurrents
  • Satire
  • Comic irony
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Elements of the poem that aren’t conventionally comic (2)

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  • Images of rape and violence

- Journey from happiness to disillusionment

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Structural elements of the poem (2)

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  • Regular structure of 3-8 line stanzas

- Intricate rhyme schemes

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Language elements of the poem

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  • Semantic field of the body
  • Images of purity
  • Images of glamour
  • Monosyllabic words
  • Polysyllabic words
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