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Title: Poem comparison
Description: This note gives some comparisons between 'material' and the 'Chainsaw vs the pampas grass'. Particularly helpful for anyone sitting alevels and gives a number of ideas that can be interpreted in your own way as well as offers new ideas to consider.
Description: This note gives some comparisons between 'material' and the 'Chainsaw vs the pampas grass'. Particularly helpful for anyone sitting alevels and gives a number of ideas that can be interpreted in your own way as well as offers new ideas to consider.
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There is a clear difference in the way the Handkerchief in ‘Material’ is presented compared
to the objects in ‘The Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’
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As well as
referring to the actual material the hanky is made out of it also refers to the way although the
Material itself is already useful it can use the qualities and attributes it possesses to create
other things that can then have even more of a meaning and more of a use to society itself
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As modern reader we understand that these are
stereotypical views of gender, so Simon Armitage uses these objects to present the
problems with the power structure and gender
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Both poems employed the use of personification; ‘The chainsaw versus the pampas grass’
to portray the stereotypical aspects of masculinity such as inability to refuse a challenge,
violent temper “No gearing up or getting up to speed, just instant rage” a chainsaw wasn’t
needed for a pampas grass, it wasn't something that a sharp blade couldn’t cut but by using
a chainsaw it enabled the writer to demonstrate the extent of an anger fuelled by nothing
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The use of personification in
‘The Chainsaw and the pampas grass’ is also used to portray the stereotypical aspects of
femininity such as obsession with physical appearance and craving attention as the pampas
grass was “taking the warmth and light … stealing the show”, which implies that the pampas
grass will go to great lengths to be the centre of attention, and because warmth and light are
crucial for other plants to survive and it was taking it, this gives the readers the impression
that the pampas gras (women) will stop at no cost to get the attention that they craved
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The tone in ‘Material’ is quite reminiscent and sad and criticizes society, and how
changeable it's become whereas the tone in ‘the chainsaw and the pampas grass’ is
extremely negative and creates a violent imagery although both poems raises the question
that although society is somewhat modernised has it actually taken a step in the right
direction?
Title: Poem comparison
Description: This note gives some comparisons between 'material' and the 'Chainsaw vs the pampas grass'. Particularly helpful for anyone sitting alevels and gives a number of ideas that can be interpreted in your own way as well as offers new ideas to consider.
Description: This note gives some comparisons between 'material' and the 'Chainsaw vs the pampas grass'. Particularly helpful for anyone sitting alevels and gives a number of ideas that can be interpreted in your own way as well as offers new ideas to consider.