I made this PowerPoint in preparation for my A-Level English exam, in which I achieved an A*. This PowerPoint contains detailed annotations of each line of the poem, separated by stanza. The analysis contains insight into the poem's context and complex literary techniques.
→ It inverts most current liberal attitudes to the natural world, to hunting and to the intr
value of wildlife. It is brutally unemotional and makes no moral judgments.
→ It also juxtaposes two concepts normally thought of as opposites — a house and kitch
its associations of home, warmth and security, and a gun with its association of violen
death. Adding sex to the mix results in an uncomfortable, disturbing poem about killin
the grim pleasure it engenders.
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