Chainsaw Vs. The Pampas Grass

Structure

8 irregular stanzas and length lines, that finish with end-stopped lines.

• May give sense of opposition, as if the two elements are in conflict.

• Prevents fluidity of the poems which is perhaps the representative of how humans create and force unnatural barriers and structures, like the chainsaw attempted to do with the Pampas Grass.

• Mimic the way a chainsaw functions, as the lack of regular scheme creates an unsteady reading experience

Free verse: freedom of the pampas grass

Themes

Power

Mankind vs Nature

Role-reversal

Sexuality

Violence quotations

Hint of violence:

‘match’: Semantic field of athletes. Competition? Romantic? Lighting a fire?

Violence:

Instant death: anticipation to demolish the pampas grass. Humans vs Nature

‘Knocked back’: Colloquialism

‘bloody desire’ ‘ludicrous feather’

Futility

Role reversal

Man vs. Nature

‘twleve foot spears’: phallic

‘chocked’

‘nest’, ’crown’