Jeanelle Brisbane

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

Theme of continuation of life which was passed from the dead son to the sequoia tree. "Silently keeping the secret of your birth" #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"A green sapling...autumns" contrasts sad tone from 1st stanza, give a sense of hope,renewal,happiness exper. frm birth of 1st born #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Rain blackened.... the dull gray" (ln3-4) use of the words 'blackened', 'cold' 'dull dray' to create a somber mood #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"I want you to stand among strangers..." (ln24) apostrophe, poet speaking to the dead son through the tree, sense of hope #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Digging a hole,laying you into it,carefully packing the soil" (ln2) metaphor playing on idea of burying the baby and planting tree #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

YATAB and pleasurespots both present an idea of man's downfalls, his weaknesses that actually have a major negative effect. #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

Orwell's staying true to his typical essay structure by presenting an idea from both sides in a persuasive, negative manner. #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

Pleasure spots, though shorter, has the same format as Why I Write with a poem and a list to expand on his point of view #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"You false Danish dogs!" #metaphor #betrayal #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"O, this is the poison of deep grief." #irony #betrayal #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar." #visualimagery #betrayal #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Will not debate the question of this straw." #metaphor #foolishness #uselessness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Do it, England." (4.3 line 65) #metonymy #cowardliness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear." #personification #foolishness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"When he needs... it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again." #metaphor #visualimagery #foolishness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King is a thing -" #allusion #betrayal #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"O'er whom his very madness, like some ore among a mineral of metals base, shows itself pure." #simile #madness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"Mad as the see and wind when both contend which is the mightier." #simile #visualimagery #madness #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"to be demanded of a sponge" #metaphor #e12a1

[Jeanelle Brisbane @jeanzyb]

"The body is with the King but the King is not with the body." #allusion #e12a1