5 Ways Gr 9 Poetry Ppt

7/25/2019 5 Ways Gr 9 Poetry Ppt

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EDWIN BROCK

5 Ways to kill

a man


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Notes.......

Written like an instruction guide or recipebook telling the reader the manner in which aman can be efficiently killed.

Each stanza deals with one method of killing

Why has the poet written like this?

What is the tone of the poem?


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STANZA 1

There are many cumbersome ways to kill aman.You can make him carry a plank of woodto the top of a hill and nail him to it.To do this properly you require a crowd ofpeople

wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloakto dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and oneman to hammer the nails home.


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STANZA 2

Or you can take a length of steel,shaped and chased in a traditional way,and attempt to pierce the metal cage hewears.But for this you need white horses,English trees, men with bows and arrows,

at least two flags, a prince, and acastle to hold your banquet in.


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Notes...

This stanza refers to the War of Roses To illustrate how wars were fought for the sake of

the crown (Royal family) and honour.

There was nothing noble in the brutal hand to handwarfare using common agricultural tools like bill

hooks axes and hammers that pierced armour withease.

Armour is called a metal cage. why?

All you need is a prince, two flags (representing the

Houses of York and Lancaster) and the Englishcountryside marred with the killings of battle.

You need a castle to hold your banquet in tocelebrate your victory while the brutal and ignoblenature of this war is hidden in the image of white

horses and English trees


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STANZA 3

Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the windallows, blow gas at him. But then you needa mile of mud sliced through with ditches,not to mention black boots, bomb craters,more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songsand some round hats made of steel.


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The poet brings to our attention the cruelpractise of gas warfare in WW1.

you may if the wind allows, blow gas at himsounds harmless but is actually referring to1915 when the British used gas cylinders tosend Chlorine gas towards the Germans front

lines BUT the wind direction changed and thegas cam back to poison the British soldiers.


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STANZA 4

In an age of aeroplanes, you may flymiles above your victim and dispose of himby pressing one small switch. All you thenrequire is an ocean to separate you, twosystems of government, a nation's scientists,several factories, a psychopath and

land that no-one needs for several years.


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As we dehumanize ourselves further we aretold to fly miles about our victim anddispose of him by pressing a small switch.But now we require an ocean to separate usand two different ideologies.

Clear reference to the bombings of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki.


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STANZA 5

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways tokill a man.Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to seethat he is living somewhere in the middleof the twentieth century, and leave him there.

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