Poetry Flashcards

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Lament

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(Clarke)

about how every living creature and part of creation is effected by the destruction of war

  • anaphora - many lines begin with ‘for’ before discussing the damage to each organism - unites - all have the same sort of level of suffering
  • ‘Ahmed at the closed border’ –> represents all - immersive the reader - becomes more personal
  • ‘for her eggs laid in their nest of sickness’ –> juxtaposition between ‘nest’ which connotes life, and ‘sickness’ with connotes death and pain
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Colonisation in reverse

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