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'The Enemies'-Elizabeth Jennings (1955) - Coggle Diagram
'The Enemies'-Elizabeth Jennings (1955)
Context of the poem and Jennings
This poem was written in 1955 right after the world war where people were still suffering from the impacts of the war
She is an english poet
The poem is obscure in nature meaning it doesn't give you any clarity about the setting making it speculative since we don't know who the enemies are.This obsecurity universalises an invasion for all of us perhaps psychological
European colonization
Second wave of feminism
The poem beings in mediares
There is no exposition provided and starts from the middle
It makes you unsettled
The suddeness of any invasion
Unstoppable force
Themes
Invasion
City?+Mind?
Role of men and women
Alienation- Diff
They V.S Us
Enemies
Sense of collected identities is fragmented
Fear+Suspicion
Insecurity and vulnearability
Reflects the post-modern world
Literary and stylistic techniques
Cold War tensions
Social Changes
Spiritual themes
Post-War anxiety
Irony
Vivid imagery
Stanzas
Octave
Exploring the psychological impacts of invasion after colonization ends
Sestet
There is juxtaposition and contrast between morning and night
Night is peaceful
Morning is chaotic
Endstop lines
Run on lines
rhyme scheme
The poem is mostly written in iambic pentameter (the rising/masculine meter)
Vague structure
Detoriation of humans throughout the poem