Q. COMPARE THE WAYS IN WHICH POETS EXPLORE THE THEME OF CHANGE IN CHAINSAW VS THE PAMPAS
GRASS AND ONE OTHER POEM
Chainsaw vs Pampas
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To my 9 year old self
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Winter
unplugged
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Dry
links
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Last
year’s heat
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Flies
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Spider’s
wool
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The
length of the lawn
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Bloody desire
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Hundred
bets per second drumming in its heart
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Taking
the warmth and light
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Twelve
foot spears
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The
blade became chocked with soil or fouled with weeds
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Flamed
for a minute, smoked for a minute and went out
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By June
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Ridding
high in its saddle
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A new crown
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From the
upstairs window
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The
chainsaw seethed
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A year
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Man-made
dreams
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Try to
forget
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Urge to
persist
Poets change in verbs when speaking about
chainsaw and pampas
Change in the gender roles, women are
stronger than men, exaggerated
Change between the two seasons,
spring/summer growth and winter, free and light vs oppressed and dark
Change in rhythm
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Rather run than walk, rather climb than run,
rather leap from a hight
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I have spoiled this body we once shared
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Scars
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Summer morning
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We have nothing in common
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I shan’t cloud your morning
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I have fears
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Peeling a ripe scrab from your knee
Change
in the verbs used for the speaker to talk to its past from the present: time
Nostalgia,
everything becoming blurred like memories, the idea of childhood is exaggerated/
idealised
Pessimistic
tone talking in present and optimistic in past
Change
in rhythm: from
Change
in how the speaker is willing to take more risk in the past than present
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