Captin Flashcards
(4 cards)
Summary
Future is disappointing
I lived in a kind of fizzing hope
Onomataphia, Another connotation of ‘fizzing’ is its temporary nature. Although something can fizz, it will eventually flatten and lose its ebullience. The speaker could perhaps subconsciously be recognising that his own past hopes were merely temporary, and bound to fade and disappear.
Convent
girls.
This enjambment of this two-word sentence gives emphasis. It was a time of sexual awakening.
Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Baby Love, Oh Pretty Woman
were in the Top Ten that month, October, and the Beatles
were everywhere else.
The device of using one or a few words to represent a complex time or situation is known as holophrasis.
The speaker makes reference to the pop-culture of the 1960s, establishing the era that he is speaking about. He remembers insignificant things in great detail, implying that this part of his life was the most memorable. It introduces one of the themes of the poem – nostalgia.
