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Love's Dog ~ Jen Hadfield - Coggle Diagram
Love's Dog ~ Jen Hadfield
Form
Ode
Dedicates to her love / partner
or
love itself (personified)
Themes
Reality
'burnt toast' / 'bent cigarette'
- suggests love can burn you and also juxtaposes the magical elements at the start.
Love is fragile
'bird-bones'
- suggests love is brittle, fragile and easily broken, disturbing imagery - on the inside suggests love breaks you on the inside and is easily hidden.
Magic
'truth serum' / 'shrinking potion'
- suggests love has a magical effect even if it is a bad outcome.
'Eat-me/Drink-me'
- an allusion to Alice In Wonderland which suggests love is magical but cam have hidden effects that go unnoticed until its too late.
Obsession and Control
Title
- Love personified suggests love is dominant and controlling
'petting zoo'
- controlling nature of love
'truth serum'
- suggests manipulation / manipulative, controlling nature of love
Annotations
Stanza 4
Stanza 5
Stanza 3 - 'What I love about love is its petting zoo / What i love about love is its zookeeper'
'petting zoo' 'zookeeper' - show the controlling nature of love and relationships
Repetition of 'what i love about love' - suggests passion
Stanza 6
Stanza 2 - 'What I hate about love is its me me me / What I love about love is its Eat-me/Drink-me'
'me me me' - exposes the selfish tendencies of love
'Eat-me/Drink-me' - is an allusion to Alice In Wonderland - suggests love is magical.
Stanza 7
Stanza 1 - 'What I love about love is its diagnosis / What i hate about love is its prognosis'
'diagnosis' and 'prognosis' are medical terms - medical conditions can alter your life, might suggest love can do the same things
'love' is used as both a verb and a noun - could reflect speakers confused feelings
The lines mirror each other almost exactly - could imply love and hate are closely aligned.
Stanza 8
Context
Her upbringing in Cheshire is often influenced in her poems
Title - comes from a poem by Edwin Morgan "what I hate about love is it's dog"
Born in 1978
Post modernism ~ Cynical, challenges traditional forms/ideas