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Poem: Why A Man Cannot Have Wings — disturbing view of flight - Coggle…
Poem: Why A Man Cannot Have Wings — disturbing view of flight
F : view of flight — start paragraph with : flight is shown as…
K : disturbing
unsettling
uneasy
uncomfortable
troubling
When qn ask words & imagery, address both separately
Imagery — use of 5 senses, add adjective / association in front
SD: “crash land on his head”
DC
Crash : great force & fatal impact
Craft : violent verb
Impact / LQ : Flight is portrayed as
highly
destructive
SD: “a new weapon, gravity” & “missile”
DC
Missile — Large scale & deadly
Craft: associated with war / aggression
SD: “Even glass marbles, books, the fatal music box”
DC
Ordinary items cause large scale devastation
Craft (irony)
Impact / LQ : Flight as enabling human’s capacity for destruction, making harmless objects deadly
SD: “Because there will be a popular form of suicide: / Flying into foreign airspace and being gunned down; / All it takes is a nose-tip to press an invisible blue button”
DC
Suicide : self destruction
popular form : well liked
All it takes : effortless action -> trivialising / casual tone
LD : Jarring Juxtaposition to the seriousness of suicide (irony)
Impact / LQ : Flight normalises / enables death / is portrayed as highly self-destructive —> people are desensitised
emotionally detached to the idea of suicide
DC
gunned down : rapid / quick / sudden death
LD : Imagery
Impact / effect : evoke fear