food glorious food anthology- the butcher's shop
key points and quotes to analyise in the butcher's shop poem from the anthology food glorious food, text 1
- Created by: Thegirlwhoknewtoomuch - Team GR
- Created on: 22-02-13 14:58
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- Food glorious food- the butcher's shop
- "martyr's death"
- animals dying undiserving deaths-innocence
- "stiff as sunday manners"
- simile- shows image of death which is rather grusome connoting murder
- this is what a small child may think the butcher is doing to the animals
- simile- shows image of death which is rather grusome connoting murder
- "voting tory all their lives"
- didn't have ac hoice on how to live or what their fate would be
- "blue rosettes"
- suggests they wern't good enough
- blue is the colour for 2nd place in a county show
- "meaty smile, white apron stained with who knows what, fingers fat as sausages"
- butcher a nasty apperance-heartless as he's making a living from animals deaths
- imagery of pigs 'sausages' and 'meaty' could be an insult
- butcher a nasty apperance-heartless as he's making a living from animals deaths
- "snowy sheep prance"
- sibilence connoting simister behaviour
- shows what a child thinks of animals as.
- this creates irony
- sibilence connoting simister behaviour
- "tacky"
- little care taken, no respect for the animals
- "playing farms"
- references to 'games' and 'toys' suggests the butcher treats his job like a game, playing with the animals deaths
- "your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds"
- personal pronoun 'your' makes reader feel guilty
- description of bleeding parcel, creates grim image of death
- poem has 14 lines- like a sonnet
- sonnets are love poems, this poem isn't creating irony
- "martyr's death"
- shows what a child thinks of animals as.
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