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2 May 2022 Essay Planning - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Challenging"
        
        Something that is difficult to understand or accept
        
        It may be a completely foreign idea that has never been proposed
        
        It may be an idea that is completely antithetical and incompatible with the current mainstream views or the reader's views; it may shake the foundations of their thinking and principles; it may make the reader realise that they have been wrong the entire time
        
        The difficulty of understanding it may be a problem of intellect and comprehension
        
        The difficulty may also derive from the denial of an idea because (although deep down the reader may accept it as a fact)
        
        It may be too absurd and far from their personal views or the mainstream views, so the possibility/credibility is doubted; it may even be so different that it is unfathomable to establish a new mindset that is not what people were accustomed to
        
        It may be an idea that is so emotionally distressing that the reader does not want to consciously accept it (too optimistic to accept flaws)
        
        "Challenging" suggests that there is a standard or a mainstream thought, and any other ways of thinking are either oppressed or a minority.
      - "Detail"
        
        Something that may not immediately be perceived or fully understood
        
        It may need to be scrutinised to acquire the full meaning
      - "Most"
        
        Among those in the greatest degree/intensity (nothing else is superior)
        
        Suggests that there is a varying level of dificulty (in a spectrum) in understanding/accepting ideas; many ideas can be challenging, but some are more/less challenging than others
- - - - "Too soon made glad"
        
        "Too easily impressed"
        
        "My last duchess"
        
        "That piece a wonder"
        
        "Perhaps Fra Pandolf chanced to say"
        
        "My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old-name"
        
        "Lessoned"
        
        "My object"
        
        "Neptune...taming a sea-horse"
    - - "Sunday's supplement"
        
        "The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers"
        
        "Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
        
        "The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass."
        
        "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh."
        
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    - - "Picked out his twelve disciples"
        
        "Cleaned toilets", "call-girl, "housewife who had forgotten the Pill", "office clerk who'd tried to set fire to Government Buildings", "sad old quean", "alcohol priest going slowly mad in a respectable parish".
        
        "The first day".... (comparison between God's intentions and what people have done instead)
        
        "On the eighth day the sun did not rise. It did not rise the day after."
        
        "God was neither alive nor dead."
        
        "The darkness of the Void, / Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness / Sat on the earth from then till now".
    - - "A family carries its family"
        
        "(Never again, never again)"
        
        "False news is news with the pity edited out."
        
        "Let bullets be birds, let cluster bombs burst into flocks."
        
        "the woman in black gives sunflower seeds to the soldier, insists his marrow will nourish the national flower."