The Lammas Hireling
Duhig
Important Quotes
Poems of Comparison
Themes
Tone
Structure and Technique
4 stanzas in total each made up form 6 line
Enjambment between stanzas create the effect of ongoing speech, with little opportunity to reflect
Erratic sentence lengths
Repeated use of 'and' - gives the idea of building up a story - can be interpretated by a reader as indicated this may be a fantacy
Language and Truth
Society and Culture
The confusion between the narraotr's wife and the hireling raises questions for a reader - bith a mix of feminine and masculine imagery combining to question
Poem maintains confusion for the reader due to so many unanswered questions
Eat me
Giuseppe
Narrator = Farmer and storyteller
Tone of guilt ate the end of the play
Starts with praising tone which deepens to a tone of mystery
'I hunted down her torn voice'
- Savage connotations
'There was no / Splash'
- Splitting line over 2 lines = creates tension - also helps the reader try to understand that what the farmer is supernatural (shapeshifter) and before it hit the water it faded to nothing
'Disturbed form dreams of my dear late wife'
- He dreams about his dead wife
The Supernatural
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'Bless me father for I have sinned'
'It ahs been an hour since my last confession'
- Represents a guilty conscious from what he has just done and he is scared of the consequence - yet if it was a supernatural creature a priest wouldn't see the act as a sin it would be thanked (Juxtaposition)