Clive Mckenzie

Clive Mckenzie

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#e12a2 "Silently keeping the secret of your birth" (25) Secret of the dead baby.

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#e12a2 Lines 18 - 20 "bathed" "scented" "softened" Gentle imagery of nature nurturing the tree.

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#e12a2 "But today we kneel in the cold planting you, our native giant" (11) Apostrophe- Talking to an inhuman object the tree

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#e12a2 "Of an old year coming to an end" (5) Personification

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@macarthur94 #heh

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YAB #e12a2 Inspired by Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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YAB #e12a2 Orwell finds a problem with everything it seems #pessimistic

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YAB #e12a2 Atomic Bomb adds to the artificial vs nature contrast. Bomb is the physical manifestation of destructive artificiality.

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PS #e12a2 Music dilutes nature. Music is a tool of manipulation in order to prevent thought.

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PS #e12a2 Artificial vs Nature - Contrast

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PS #e12a2 "because in exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore himself" Man allows the world to shape him.

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PS #e12a2 A lot of description #purplepassages

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"wants not buzzers to infect his ear" #onomatopoeia #e12a2

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"So full of jealousy is guilt" #personification #e12a2

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"old Norway" #Metonymy #e12a2

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#metaphor #e12a1"...slander—whose whisper o'er the world’s diameter ... transports the poisoned shot—may miss"

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"Besides, to be demanded of a sponge!" #e12a2 #Metaphor

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#e12a2 #irony "the vile deed we must with all our majesty and skill both countenance and excuse" Dramatic Irony. His deeds are worse.

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#e12a2 "Give me some light" Claudius cannot escape the darkness of death with blood on his hands.

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#e12a2 "The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge" Animal Imagery. Omen of Death.