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'Children Of Wealth'-Elizabeth Daryush - Coggle Diagram
'Children Of Wealth'-Elizabeth Daryush
Literary and Stylistic Techniques
Parallelism
too round limbs, tan your skin too white
Imagery
Visual
Kinesethetic
Assertive tone in second stanza
Sibilance
Double 's'
Line length
Endstop lines in the octave
It shows how easy it is for rich people to get stuff
Long lines in the octave show there is no pause to the resources and privellege they recieve
Long lines in the sestet
Shows how long their suffering would be
Situational irony in the poem
The result is the complete opposite of what expected
Themes of the poem
This poem explores the sheltered and oblivious existence of wealthy children, contrasting their comfort with the harsh realities of the world beyond. The poem's tone is one of warning, as it suggests that the children's privilege may leave them unprepared for future adversity.
Escapism-Semantic field
Immediacy
Suspense
Daryush herself was born into provellege and hence is in a position to criticise it and criticises the capitalist society
Biting criticism
Differences of class
Privellege-Imminent downfall
Sestet of the Volta
Disarray
Volta is when there is a huge metaphorical change in the narrative
Patriarchal sonnet
Octave-8 lines
The octave is pleasant
Sestet-6 lines
Act of writing a sonnet means a plea to go back to simpler older time where there was not much economic inequality and disparity
Contrast and juxtaposition
There is a huge contrast between the octave and volta
Octave projects calmness and comfort
one way view for rich ppl
Shows how their outlook on life is limited
your citadel is safe from feeling and from knowledge too