Please Hold Flashcards
(7 cards)
Analyse ‘This is the future, my wife says’
The repeated phrase throughout the poem suggests tech is intruding on life and this is inevitable which is reinforced by the end stop which signifies a finality in the lack of choice
Why does the speaker say ‘the robot is giving me countless options’
The extended metaphor of tech is used to represent the illusion of choice that tech offers to the speaker
Why does the speaker say ‘I give him’
Repitition is used to emphasise the speaker’s passive surrendering and the personification of technology
Why does the speaker ‘shout’
It represents the speakers growing anger throughout the poem with the limitations of technology
Why are the words ‘wonderful’ and ‘great’ repeated throughout the poem?
To convey how technology has distorted the meaning of language and tainted the meaning of human interactions
Analyse ‘please say yes or no// or you can say repeat or menu’
The repeated use suggests the illusion of choice that the speaker has as he is trapped in an endless cycle
Analyse ‘This is the future… and it’s the same as the present’
This is repeated by the wife to suggest that she has become corrupted into a form of unthinking robot herself
