The Gun- Feaver Flashcards
1
Q
Feaver’s MAP
A
- encourages reader not to involve themselves in unlawful/ immoral activities
- dangers of allowing industry/ man to overcome nature
- power imbalance between man and woman
2
Q
Themes
A
- power
- violence
- gender
- nature/ identity
3
Q
F/S- free verse
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- unpredictable nature of gun
- heightens potential dangers
4
Q
F/S- enjambment
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- destructive nature of man
- unforgiving and relentless
5
Q
F/S- end-stopped stanzas
A
safety: contained gun
6
Q
‘bringing a gun into the house/ changes it’
A
- ambiguity: how?
- immediate power threshold to gun, ominous tone
- ‘house’: symbolic of safety; threatened
7
Q
‘casting a grey shadow/ on the green-checked cloth’
A
- overpowering nature of the ‘gun’
- colour imagery: difference between nature and industry
8
Q
‘the fridge fills with creatures/ that have run and flown’
A
- nature forced into man-made invention
- death of nature for man’s benefit
9
Q
‘I join in the cooking.. slicing, stirring and tasting’
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- complacent in domestic duties, subservient
- sibilance: underlying bitterness
10
Q
‘King of Death.. his black mouth/ sprouting golden crocuses’
A
- colour imagery: suggests victory (‘golden’), ‘black’ highlights danger
- ‘crocuses’: poisonous flower, deadliness, intoxication
- expectation vs reality: appears beautiful, but is toxic
- sense of power brought by the gun is toxic, infatuation
