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Alliteration adds to the change of mood in the poem. Conversational language at the beginning. Clever use of language throughout. ‘Day Trip to Donegal’. Regular form of the poem contrasts with the chaotic feelings the poet stresses in the final stanza (5 stanzas, 6 lines, aabbcc ). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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‘Day Trip to Donegal’
Poem deals with poet’s sense of alienation – psychological and spiritual .Imagination clearly at work in the poem
Vivid, sensuous imagery throughout
Regular form of the poem contrasts with the chaotic feelings the poet stresses in the final stanza (5 stanzas, 6 lines, aabbcc)
Alliteration adds to the change of mood in the poem
Conversational language at the beginning. Clever use of language throughout
‘As ever, the nearby hills were
a deeper green/Than
anywhere in the world’
Idealised sense of place – rural, coastal beauty spot
‘grave’, ‘grey’ and ‘grimmer’
Hint at a darker vision. Alters the atmosphere
Alliteration – repetition of
harsh ‘g’ helps to alter mood
‘we changed-down into suburbs/Sunk in a sleep no gale-
force wind disturbs’
Difference is highlighted between life in Donegal and Belfast.
‘And still the fish come in year after year – Herring and mackerel, flopping about the deck/In attitudes of agony and heartbreak’
Suggestions of pain and death add to the atmosphere of underlying unease set up in the first stanza
‘That night the slow sea washed against
my head’
‘Performing its immeasurable
erosions...muttering its threat
‘spilling into the skull’
The poet is anxious
We are plunged into the terrifying world of the subconscious. We can almost hear the sound of the sea and its power
Images of the sea are blended with the experience of dreaming. Conveys the surreal, frigthening atmosphere of dreams
Alliteration – repetition of soft
‘s’
Onomatopoeia
‘At dawn I was alone far out at sea...no promise
of rescue’
Alienation – psychological and spiritual
‘cursing my constant
failure...contriving vain overtures to the vindictive wind and rain
Utterly intense atmosphere. Elements of nature symbols of obstacles in life- death,lossOrdinary ‘trip’ has forced him to face his deepest fears
Metaphor
Symbols