NEXT PLEASE Flashcards
(14 cards)
next, please title
clipped title emph the fast paced nature of society’s demands and always looking to the next thing- inability to live in the present
we pick up bad habits of expectancy
emph on the eager rush to next opportunities as a society wide issue - critiques himself too - passivety to own greed
something is always approaching we say
conformist like - vague opportunities of future + uncertain - still desire emph social foolishness
every day// till then we say,
enjambment reflects continuation of the rush to obtain opportunities from the present to future
sparkling armada of promise
jxtp prev vague and uncertain nature of opportunities- warped and overly hopeful perceptions
sparkling = money and greed + glamourised image - boats are metaphors for consumerism
How slow they are!// Refusing to make haste!
rep exclamatory - mocks voice of society being childish and impatient - sense of entitlement
Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
argument introduces the underwhelming reality of opportunities- will never be satisfied and wasn’t what they expected
clings onto dead hopes and dreams - inevitably disappointed and still have a cyclical bitter realisation (allusion vs reality)
creates sense of certainty will just turn to the next ship
big approach/ brass work/ flagged/ figure head
hyperbolised metaphors for opportunities - dramatised to build up more anticipation and excitement - easily noticeable and foolishy falls for them
figurehead with golden tits
bathos mocks the social disappointment - colloquialism = underwhelming reality
it never anchors;
endstop - boat leaves quickly = our dismissal of opportunities due to them not meeting our inflated expectations
never satisfied and will inevitably turn to the next ship - unfulfilling nature of opp
will heave and unload
image of opportunities providing weighty and dramatic change - grand
devoutly and so long.// but we are wrong
adverb emph anticipation and naivety of waiting - wasting time
followed by monosyllabic blunt realisation of disappointing reality - endstop emph the allusions and separation
only one ship seeking us a black sailed unfamiliar
consequences of remaining too focused on future and greed - become ignorant of only certainty in future - death
thus appears oblivious and foreboding - never acknowledge
a huge birdless silence/ no water breeds or breaks
lack of noise and movement = the finality of death emph by endstop
also the hopelessness of death and fears - jxtp prev glamourisations - morbid reality they don’t face
