basking shark

Question 1

he shoggle me centuries back

Answer 1

• the enjambment emphasise back to prelist times create and imaged of evolutionary stages of common ancestors and marine life.
• the word choice of shoggle has connation of wobble or shift this suggest the poet has been shift and his now more appreciative and more awa on how incredible nature is

Question 2

so who’s the monsters

Answer 2

• the word choice of monster has conation of big and scary. this suggests the shark is a size of the monsters but is not scary and not going to hard to you.
• the rhetorical question force the reader to consider the action of the human race and how can this beautiful create be a monster.

Question 3

to stub oar on a rock where none should be

Answer 3

• this is a metaphor just as rock is solid and hard so too is the shark build like a rock.
• the word choice of ‘‘stub ‘’ has connotation of jerk and surprised this suggest the poet was shock by the shark.
• the regular rhyme scheme like the flow of the tide.

Question 4

that room sized monster with a match box brain ‘’

Answer 4

• the contrast between the huge and scary monster compared to a small and tiny brain they have. The poet is implying that the creature is not intelligent compared to him and even though the poet’s not as big as the shark he puts him higher self-up on the evolutionary scale than the shark.

Question 5

on a sea tin-tacked with rain

Answer 5

this suggest a strong vised of the rain dropping on to the water. like small dots also suggest the noise .
- the alliteration of the t suggests sense of experiences.

Question 6

but not too often though enough

Answer 6

this contradict the ‘’ once too often ‘’ the poet is implies and reflect his frighting experiences he found it scary but it was worthwhile.

Question 7

i count as gain that once i met

Answer 7

the word choice of ‘’ gain’’ has connation of add and earn. this suggest the poet has benefited form this experiences.
the word choice of met has connotation of friend and familiar. this suggest a connection between animals and humans.

Question 8

emerging from the slime of everything

Answer 8

the metaphor suggest just as emerge is come out of some so too did the poet come out of this experiences reborn and has a new mind set on the process of evolution.
- the word choice of ‘’ everything ‘’ again reinforce that every specie start at the process of evolution