Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” is told from the perspective of a third person objective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem “Blowfly Grass” is written in an iambic pentameter form.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem “Judges worth Evacuating” the narrator described a “vertical war” many had to fight throughout their lives. This war is used here as a metaphor to suggest the social battle many had to endure so they could ensure their survival.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find an alliteration in the line “Fathers galloped, gale-blown blaze stripping” in the poem “The Invention of Pigs”.
Irony
N/A
Genre
The poem “Blowfly Grass” is a meditative poem.
Setting
The action in the poem “The Head-Spider” takes place in the past inside the narrator’s former home.
Tone
The tone in the poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” is a neutral one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists in “The Invention of Pigs” are the humans and the antagonists are the pigs trying to take over the society controlled by humans.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem “The Margin of Difference” is presented as being the difference between different types of philosophical thought.
Climax
The poem “The Invention of Pigs” reaches its climax when the pigs overthrow the humans in the poem.
Foreshadowing
We have a foreshadowing element in the first line of the poem “Judged worth Evacuating”. In this line, the narrator describes a war taking place, thus foreshadowing the death mentioned in the last line of the poem.
Understatement
The poem “The Margin of Difference” begins with the narrator claiming that one plus one equals two. After the narrator presents different forms of philosophical thought, he proves the initial statement as being an understatement.
Allusions
In “Blowfly Grass”, the narrator alludes the idea that society is degrading by using the imagery of a once thriving neighborhood slowly falling into decay and disappearing completely.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term “genitals” is used in the poem “The Invention of Pigs” as a general term to make reference to the fragility of sexual attraction.
Personification
We find a personification in the line “the traffic is (…) drained of motion” in the poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the line “One horse baked in a tin shed” in the poem “The Invention of Pigs”.
Onomatopoeia
We have onomatopoeia in the line “cry with agony” in the poem “Judged worth Evacuating”.
