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The Gun - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "the grainy polished wood stock / jutting over the edge,"
        
        plosive sounds
        
        masculine imagery
    - - "You lay it on the kitchen table,"
        
        talking about someone else's gun / not the persona's
      - "Your hands reek of gun oil / and entrails:"
        
        death sustained on hands
        
        "reek"
        
        idea of death / rotting
      - "There's a spring / in your step; your eyes gleam / like when sex was fresh."
        
        violence attractive to the man
  - - - "I join in the cooking: jointing / and slicing, stirring and tasting -"
        
        female domain
        
        excitement around violence
        
        "I" persona taking part in the violence
- - - - simile
        
        comparing to what it does
    - - parallel of the beginning of the poem
      - dramatic irony
  - - - "King of Death" as masculine
      - "excited"
        
        more happy, dark
    - - alliteration
        
        cold / feeling of death is cold
      - "stalking"
        
        hunting, like the male partner has been doing
      - comparing actions of partner to death
    - - contrast in life and death through colours
      - beauty within death
      - life can spring from death
      - guns can be dangerous but not in the right situations
- - - - anticipation
    - - escalation in events
- - - - enjambment
      - two line stanza
    - - parallel of the beginning of the poem
      - dramatic irony for effect
      - influence the gun has over the house
    - - partners closer than they were before
      - comparison of the gun to sex
        
        power gun has over their relationship