assisi Flashcards
assisi themes (4)
suffering, poverty, ill health, hypocrisy of the church
“slumped like a half-filled sack”
simile-unattractive-shapeless
“dwarf with his hands on backwards”
alliteration of ‘s’-implies something is deflated and empty-deflation of balloon sound
conveys wretched ill-health of the man and his discomfort in living-twisted and deformed
“on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run”
theme of suffering-alliteration of ‘t’ makes a harsh twisting effect- idea of wooden like legs
continues idea of sack-dwarf is suffering and lifeless
“outside three tiers of churches built in honour of st francis, brother of the poor, talker with the birds over whom he had the advantage of not being dead yet”
theme-irony, hypocrisy
church contrasts st francis belief of frugality
ironic that poor dwarf is begging outside a church where the saint of it loved the poor and would help them at all costs
“reveal to the illiterate the goodness of god and the suffering of his son”
irony - priest spends more time with the rich and literate tourists- eschewing the poor
“I understood
the explanation and
the cleverness.”
enjambment- hypocrisy-conveys the monetisation of the church against the beliefs of st francis
