Thursday, 28 February 2013

James Honeyman

The story is told through ...
  1. The poem is in the form of a Ballad
  2. The rhyming scheme is A,B,C,B
  3. The name Honeyman is a juxtaposition to the rest of the poem as the name is sweet yet he creates a poison that kills everyone
  4. The poem has an omniscient narrator and is written objectively 
  5. There are different voices within the poem and stanza's 35-40 are the voices of his family and stanza's 36-40 are a call and response between him and his wife.
  6. This also means that the poem changes from the objective to subjective
  7. The poem is in chronological order, linear - like a child's story (cautionary tale)
  8.  The poem has lots of changes in settings
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6 comments:

  1. Donald6 March 2013 at 04:22

    What's the significance of the change in settings? What's the poem about?

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  2. Unknown6 March 2013 at 10:28

    The poem is about a man who marries and has a child, but he makes a gas and sells it to a foreign power who use it in their bombs and ends up killing him and his family.

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  3. Unknown6 March 2013 at 10:30

    The significance of the change in settings could be to show the passing of time and the several stages in James life. It also allows creates imagery for the reader.

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  4. Donald18 March 2013 at 09:06

    What kind of imagery and what does this do for the reader's understanding of the poem?

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  5. Eva Lee6 April 2014 at 23:58

    Why a Cinema and a Dairy though??

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  6. greg5 May 2014 at 05:45

    Because the sweet domestic settings that reflect an image of innocence and middle class bliss which contrasts with the brutal death which he imparts on those around him. The settings change almost in the background as though he is living in a dream where only the possibility of creating a new drug is his passion which ultimately is the death of his family (literal and emotional)

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