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Assassination - Lee Analysis
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- English Home Language
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- 12th Grade
This is an in-depth analysis of Assassination by Lee.
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Assassination: Analysis
Title:
- Assassination = The act of assassination someone (killing or murdering a
person)
- The title alone gives us an indication that the poem is about violence.
- This single word is emotive, powerful, brutal and commonly linked to the
death of a politician.
- Contextual markers will show it is the hsooting of Martin Luther King Jnr.
it was wild.
the
bullet hit high.
(the throat-neck)
&from everywhere:
the motel, from under blushes and cars,
from around corners and across streets,
out of the garbage cans and from rat holes
in the earth
they came running.
with
guns
drawn
they came running
toward the King–
all of them
fast and sure--
, as if
the King
was going to fire back.
they came running,
fast and sure,
in the
wrong
direction.
Structure:
- Free verse poem.
- Irregular and chaotic.
- Staggered lines of different lengths.
- No neat stanza structure.
- Haphazard indents(lacking any obvious principal of organization).
- Erratic structure with single words on lines.
- Surprising punctuation.
The purpose of this layout is to enhance the ideas of chaos, wildness and madness
of the mood once the gunshot was fired and struck Martin Luther King Jnr.
- Use of typography
- Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make reading
appealing, to convey a message or action etc.
- The disjointed typography helps create the urgent, disconnected and
disassociated tone and the sense that the events are unfolding in
real/live time.
- The fact that the lines are not aligned also emphasises the sudden
fragmentary and confusing nature of the assassination.
Overall Tone:
- Urgent
- Dissociated
- Disconnected
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