Chainsaw versus Pampas Grass

gendered violence

“Grinding its teeth in a plastic sleeve”

“the chainsaw with its bloody desire”

“Overkill.”

“ludicrous feathers and plumes”

• inconsisttent lines

Loss of control (limits of human power)

“dropped the safety catch and gunned the trigger”

“i let it flare”

“like cutting at water or air with a knife”

Resistance and Transformtaion

“closed and mended behind”

“new shoots…sprang up” “corn in egypt”

“midday moon” “the chainsaw seethed”

“Grinding its teeth in a plastic sleeve”

• plosive g sound

• contraceptive - stripping off strengths + domains

• teeth… asso, with biting and bodily damage

(masc aggression latent)

“the chainsaw with its bloody desire”

chainsaw symb of exggerated masc.

adjective “bloody” - physical brut + excessive urge

appeptite

desire drive n by pleasure

“Overkill.”

one word, blunt, (male hubris + excessive performance)

brevity of force

“ludicrous feathers and plumes”

sibilance-

adjc- mock

superficial rep → patriarch attitudes

“dropped the safety catch and gunned the trigger”

deliberate

plosive “g” - mechanical roar and abrasive language

point of irreversibility

“i let it flare”

• verb, allusion

• flare - ungovernable force

• relinquishe

“like cutting at water or air with a knife”

• fluid v/s rigid

• simile- futility + powerless

“closed and mended behind”

• passive to resiss verbs

• negates dominance as healing

• endurance = powerful

“new shoots…sprang up” “corn in egypt”

• effortless regene

• sprang eneegry + bitality

• biblical allusion - absundance + provision

“midday moon” “the chainsaw seethed”

paradox- diminished, pale watch passi

personification- last potency left with supressed rage