The Sweet Menu
Mindmap for analysing "The Sweet Menu" by Jeremy Hughes
- Created by: emily_w
- Created on: 02-04-14 17:59
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- The Sweet Menu
- Word Choice
- "a lily"
- Lilies used at funerals, could have used roses/carnations if aiming for romantic atmosphere
- "beech"
- specific detail to show how bored he is
- "The Sweet Menu"
- Title in direct contrast with mood of poem, which emphasises bitterness and gives a sense of irony
- "a lily"
- Grammar
- "I'm shown"
- passive verb to show how he is removed and isolated from his surroundings
- leaves out person showing him to emphasise loneliness
- "...talk to someone about/the plastic lily"
- enjambment for hesitation, feels awkward and in the way
- "I'm shown"
- Figurative language
- "spin", "pirouettes", "plies"
- lexical field of dance--dreamlike and surrounded by energetic people
- "pizza hot and peppery"contrast with "cold north wind"
- "it hasn't come to much"
- double meaning--sum up dining experience and bill is low because no sweet
- "spin", "pirouettes", "plies"
- Structure
- poem is written in couplets except for coda--always wanting to be a pair but accepts he will be forever alone :(
- Conditions of production/reception
- poet expressing his frustration and bitterness at being stood up on a date
- some audience would sympathise because they had been in the same situation
- some audience would have stood people up and poet might want to make them feel guilty
- poet expressing his frustration and bitterness at being stood up on a date
- Sound patterning
- "is pulled back as if"
- monosyllabic for repetitive dating experience
- "is pulled back as if"
- Links
- Eating Out
- experiences of dining out
- loneliness vs too much pressure from family
- Grandpa's soup
- food gives warm or bitter memories
- Text 19
- experience of dining out alone vs with a friend
- Eating Out
- Word Choice
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