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Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE (POETRY): DETAILED POEM ANALYSIS
Description: This is helpful to students of English at any level in their education. Here, there are pages of analysis of poem 'Below The Green Corrie' which some exam boards want you to know about. However the purpose of this poem analysis is that it is for the Unseen Poetry exam, which gives you a poem you've never read before, and this can imitate that.
Description: This is helpful to students of English at any level in their education. Here, there are pages of analysis of poem 'Below The Green Corrie' which some exam boards want you to know about. However the purpose of this poem analysis is that it is for the Unseen Poetry exam, which gives you a poem you've never read before, and this can imitate that.
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Below the Green Corrie
The mountains gathered round me
-Norman MacCaig
like bandits
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But it was they who stood and delivered
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They filled me with mountains and thunders
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I clambered downhill through the ugly weather
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Unseen Poem Analysis
Poet’s Background
Norman MacCaig was a 20th century Scottish poet and teacher described
as metaphysical
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Despite it being something that was often criticised, during World War Two
Norman MacCaig registered as a conscientious objector (so he refused to
fight) as he supported pacifism – he was against violence
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Title
Beginning the
title with a
plosive sound in
‘below’ gives an
abrupt effect
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This would make sense because Norman
MacCaig spent a lot of time in the
Scottish Highlands
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This fits with the theme of
the poem, as at the start
of the poem, the speaker
seemed to describe the
scene as intimidating
and superior, or perhaps
something he idolised
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A ‘corrie’ is a
hollow with steep
sides, usually on
a mountain or
hillside
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Theme
At the start of the poem, “their leader” (a large mountain) is
described oxymoronically as being in “dark light”, but the tone
gradually becomes more positive and brighter towards the end
where it wears “a bandolier of light”
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This suggests that the theme is not to make judgements based on
first impressions
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Due to the irregular stanza & line lengths and absence of rhyme
& rhythm, the structure is not that of a typical poem
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In the first stanza only, the fluidity was broken up (by caesura),
which could have reflected the speaker’s feelings of tension in
the beginning
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From “the mountains” at the start of the poem and due to the
definite article, it gives an indication that the poem’s focus is going
to be on the mountains
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This feeling of threat is
confirmed at the end of the first stanza where it says “full of
threats”, so admitting that he feels threatened might have been his
way of surrendering – until, that is, he realises that nature is not
against him
Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE (POETRY): DETAILED POEM ANALYSIS
Description: This is helpful to students of English at any level in their education. Here, there are pages of analysis of poem 'Below The Green Corrie' which some exam boards want you to know about. However the purpose of this poem analysis is that it is for the Unseen Poetry exam, which gives you a poem you've never read before, and this can imitate that.
Description: This is helpful to students of English at any level in their education. Here, there are pages of analysis of poem 'Below The Green Corrie' which some exam boards want you to know about. However the purpose of this poem analysis is that it is for the Unseen Poetry exam, which gives you a poem you've never read before, and this can imitate that.