Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass - Simon Armitage
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Key Themes:
\-Nature
\-Man vs Nature
\-Violence
\-Man vs Nature
\-Violence
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Key Quotes:
\-”grinding its teeth in a plastic sleeve.”
\-”The chainsaw with its perfect disregard, its mood to tangle with cloth, or jewellery, or hair.”
\-”The chainsaw with its bloody desire, its sweet tooth for the flesh of the face and the bones underneath,”
\-”Overkill. I touched the blur of the blade against the nearmost tip of a reed - it didn’t exist.”
\-”The chainsaw with its perfect disregard, its mood to tangle with cloth, or jewellery, or hair.”
\-”The chainsaw with its bloody desire, its sweet tooth for the flesh of the face and the bones underneath,”
\-”Overkill. I touched the blur of the blade against the nearmost tip of a reed - it didn’t exist.”
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Structure:
\-8 stanzas
\-Irregular line length
\-No rhyme scheme
\-Free verse
\-Irregular line length
\-No rhyme scheme
\-Free verse
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Key methods:
\-Personification: the chainsaw is personified with violent imagery
\-Violent male aggression is implied throughout - semantic field of violence.
\-Violent male aggression is implied throughout - semantic field of violence.
