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AQA A Level English Literature Poems of the Decade analysis notes. I got 3 A*s at A-Level, 11A*/9/8 at GCSE, and I am currently studying History at the University of Cambridge. My A-Level notes really helped me to do well in my exams and I hope you will find them useful too! Each page of notes pic...

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The Gun - Vicki Feaver
Stanza Quotation Theme Analysis Device
/Line
Title ‘gun’ Can be linked to Chainsaw Versus
the Pampas Grass. Concept of
‘mechanised doom’
1 Visually looks like a gun.
Monosyllables add drama
2/1 ‘You’ Personal. You are in charge of the
narrative
2/1 ‘kitchen’ Ambiguous room as it has
connotations of warmth and light
but also death for the murdered
animals
2/2 ‘stretched out like Hunting imagery. Interesting
something dead’ ambiguity as the ‘gun’ looks dead,
even though it does the killing
2/3 ‘polished wood The gun is fetishised in the first
stock’ stanza. ‘Polished’ implies that care
has been given.
2/4 ‘over the edge’ Foreshadows something sinister to
happen
2/5 ‘long metal barrel’ Phallic imagery
2/6 ‘grey shadow’ Weak shadow - Death is Imagery
approaching. Grim Reaper
2/7 ‘green-checked Colour imagery - associated with
cloth’ nature and being alive. Juxtaposed
with ‘grey’ of previous line. Could
also be about rot
3/1 ‘at first’ Colloquial tone to suggest that it
‘just’ isn’t important - like someone who
starts an addiction.
3/2 ‘perforating’ Onomatopoeia like in Chainsaw
Versus the Pampas Grass.
3/3 ‘orange’ Similar colour imagery in Chainsaw
Versus the Pampas Grass. Contrast
between nature (tree) and man-
made (orange)
3/3-4 ‘dangling...from Lynching
trees’
3/ 5-6 ‘rabbit shot clean Paraprosdokian stanza.
through the head’ Enjambment shows the rabbit
being killed and shows how one
small thing leads to another. The
short sentence adds to dramatic

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