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FROM THE JOURNAL OF A DISAPPOINTED MAN: Andrew Motion - Coggle Diagram
FROM THE JOURNAL OF A DISAPPOINTED MAN:
Andrew Motion
structure
identical four-line stanzas (quatrains) - fully-formed, compact men
feminised form made more masculine through rigid structure but the enjambment and irregularity of caesura makes it less formal
setting
observational, anthropomorphic, ennui, liminal
language
"these men" - patronising tone
"as I said" - conversational, self-awareness in writing
'water's edge,' 'swinging,' 'in mid-air,' - liminal, uncertain
"a great difficulty" - elevates the quotidian to something "mystic" - mock heroic
"very ruminative and silent men ignoring me" - ironic, he is a ruminative and silent man ignoring them - perpetuating a separation through what feels like a clinical observation
"eclipse" + "water" - feminine - hidden depths - undercurrent of femininity / paralleled in structure with ostensibly rigid, masculine structure made feminine through the feminised form of a journal
"and me of course" - patronising, doesn't consider at all that he could join them
"secret problem"
plosives
interactions between language and structure
enforces firm structure on something naturally formlessness
a conflict and negotiation between what we are, where we position ourselves and where society positions us
its irresolution is at its centre
the men are uncommitted to language, whereas the writer relies on language in the epistolary form