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The City Planners by Margaret Atwood - Coggle Diagram
The City Planners by Margaret Atwood
Themes and Symbols
Urbanisation
The impact of urbanisation on nature.
Man vs. Nature
The poem hints of climate change.
Originality and creativity
The unformity in the houses, lacking innovation and imagination.
Structure of the poem
The City Planners is a free verse written in 7 stanzas of uneven sets of lines ranging from 2-12 . The absence of uniformity in the structure represents Margarets belief in beauty in disorganisation, contrasting with the planners framwork respectively.
The poem doesnt follow a particular rhyme scheme.
Tone: sarcastic, angry, disapproving
Linguistic/Poetic devices and their effect
Personification
Examples- "too fixed stare of the wide windows" "
Simile
Examples- "gradual as glaciers", "suprising as a bruise"
Aliiteration
Examples- "straight swath", "wide windows"
Irony/Sarcasm
Examples- "a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise"