Assisi

Question 1

The dwarf with his hands on backwards

Answer 1

W.C dwarf derogatory and disabled

Metaphor hands being upturned being compared to a doll made incorrectly. Similarities are that both seem broken and useless to look at. Emphasis people ignore those I need

Question 2

Sat slumped like a half filled sack

Answer 2

Half filled - W.C partial not complete suggests the begged is lacking something

Slumped- hunched bent over suggests beggar can’t even sit straight

Question 3

Tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run

Answer 3

Metaphor legs of begged being compared to intricate carved table legs. Both a strange and skinny. Emphasizes that people view the beggar not as a human

Question 4

Outside

Answer 4

Neglected and abandoned suggests society has turned him away and he can’t enter or revive assistance

Positing of word at start of line draws attention to it

Question 5

Three tiers of churches

Answer 5

Three tiers suggests extravagance and over the top incongruous to saint Francis brother of the poor who lived a single life. Emphasis hypocrisy of church

Question 6

Saint Francis brother if the poor

Answer 6

W.c brother suggests family and respect he saw everyone as equal and would have helped beggar

Question 7

Of not being dead yet

Answer 7

Yet suggest incoming and foreshadowing. Emphasis that the beggar will die

Also posting on the end of line draws attention to it

Question 8

A priest explained

Answer 8

W.C explained connotes lecture and academic. Emphasis that a priest should preach and embody teachings further develops prefixed hypocracy if the church

Question 9

How clever it was of Giotto to make his frescos tell stories

Answer 9

W.c of clever refers to artist not god and suggests the artist is magnificent and extraordinary. Suggests hypocrisy of church

Question 10

Illiterate

Answer 10

W.c suggests stupid and undereducated. Emphasis that instead of spending 1000s on pretty pictures the church should teach the poor how to read the Bible

Question 11

Goddness of God and the Suffering of his Son

Answer 11

Alliteration emphasis the message that should be being preached

Question 12

Of his son . I understood

Answer 12

Caesura introduces a change in topic and the poet goes on to clarify their position

Question 13

I understood the explanation and the cleverness

Answer 13

W.c of explained and cleverness echos word choice earlier of educate and lecture. Emphasis on the gangs of time speaker can see what tourist and pre it’s fail to do that they fail to practice what they preach

Question 14

All of stanza two being one long sentace then a short sentace

Answer 14

Contrast of long then short shows Poets belief that the priest neglect is distasteful

Question 15

A rush of tourists

Answer 15

W.c rush ordinarily suggests careless and clumsy. Emphasis that the tourists don’t think about what their doing

Question 16

Fluttered

Answer 16

W.C fluttered suggests giddy and excited. Emphasis that’s tourists to it happily.

Question 17

A rush of tourists clucking contentedly fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the world

Answer 17

Extended metaphor compares tourists to chickens and priest to farmer. Similarities are that the tourists follow the priest blindly

Question 18

Scattered

Answer 18

W.c connotes careless, and unthoughtful emphasis that the priest doesn’t care

Question 19

Clucking comtemdedlyn

Answer 19

Clucking: babble and chatter . Emphasis tourists don’t care what they say

Contentedly: happy and ignorant emphasis’ tourists are glad to act like this

Question 20

Ruined temple

Answer 20

Metaphor compares temple to beggar. Similarities are that the beggar and temple are both neglected emphasis that beggar is ruined

Question 21

Outside (second time)

Answer 21

Reminder that dwarf is outside

Question 22

Whose eyes wept puss

Answer 22

Enjambment highlights unpleasant wept pus detail

W.c pus suggests unpleasant and disgusting emphasis on the dwarfs ugly appearance

Question 23

Whose eyes wept pus whose back was higher than his head whose lopsided mouth

Answer 23

Repetitive structure lists painful unpleasant ugly looks of beggar and encourages sympathy

Question 24

Gracie

Answer 24

Suggests thank you and appreciative. Emphasis that the beggar is a nice person.

Question 25

In a voice as sweet as a child’s when she speaks to her mother or a birds when it spoke to st Francis

Answer 25

Comparisons reveal the beggars goodness and purity and innocence

Question 26

List of appearances then list of inner stuff

Answer 26

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