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Blue umbrellas poem
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- English Poetry
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- Pecanwood College
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Blue UmbrellasD.J. Enright
Line Analysis.
1 ‘The thing that makes a blue ‘The thing’ – uncertain about this object.
umbrella with its tail –
Metaphor
Peacocks tail is compared to an umbrella.
The same way an umbrella can open and close
so a peacock open and close its tail.
2 how do you call it?’ you ask. Alliteration
Poorly and pale The hard ‘p’ emphasises the speakers sense of
inadequacy in giving the peacock a name to
reflect its true character and beauty.
3 Comes my answer. For all I
can call it is peacock.
4 Now that you go to school,
you will learn how we call all
sorts of things;
5 How we mar great works by Mar – spoil/reinforce.
our mean recital. You ruin the good descriptions that children give to
words by our vocabulary.
6 You will learn, for instance, Malapropism – Headmaster.
& that Head Monster is not the
7 gentleman’s accepted title; The error creates humour as the child has simply
mispronounced the word but has coincidentally
stumbled on a real perception that a principal is
scary/frightening.
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