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Giuseppe
Ford - Coggle Diagram
Giuseppe
Ford
Themes
Grief and Regret
- Throughout poem there is constant self reassurance of what they're doing was right and 'was only fish'
- Guilt shows the regret of killing the mythical creature
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Transgression
- Not 'legal' but more 'moral'
- More of a relation to sin
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Structure & Technique
- End-Stopped Lines - Allows reflection of wrongdoing
- Free Verse - Uncertainty the characters felt when killing the mermaid
- Caesura and Enjambment - shows the narrator wants the story to slow down
- Imagery of Nature - 'Bougainvillea' - flower representing femininity
- Listing - characters involved in slaughter - doctor (saviour), fishmonger (butcher), certain others (unnamed)
- Alliteration - 'dry and dusty ground' - d's create violent imagery
Important Quotes
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'she screamed like a woman' (simile - trying to make out that she wasn't a woman when really she is)
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