Stealing
- Created by: AmberMcclain32
- Created on: 18-01-16 19:32
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- Stealing
- Summary
- A thief describes the most unusual thing he/she has ever stole- a snowman.
- The thief then goes on to describe other activities and thefts.
- The poem ends with a direct address to the reader, in which the thief acknowledges that someone hearing what s/he has said would not understand it.
- The thief then goes on to describe other activities and thefts.
- A thief describes the most unusual thing he/she has ever stole- a snowman.
- Commentary
- He/she emerges as a frustrated, lonely, unfulfilled outcast with a taste of cruelty.
- Dramatic Monologue
- Poem begins with a direct address!
- The short sentences create a sense of simple immediacy
- The simile "Slice of ice" in his/her brain recalls the fairy tale of The Snow Queen in which a character is turned mean by a slice of ice that becomes lodged in his eye.
- The speaker fits classic definitions of sociapathology or perhaps even phycopathology
- Part of the thrill was knowing that children would cry. The speaker is desperate to exert power over the world because s/he is generally powerless!!!!!!
- -----This makes it pleasurable to someone who feels entirely ignored and overlooked!
- DOMINATION!
- -----This makes it pleasurable to someone who feels entirely ignored and overlooked!
- Part of the thrill was knowing that children would cry. The speaker is desperate to exert power over the world because s/he is generally powerless!!!!!!
- The speaker fits classic definitions of sociapathology or perhaps even phycopathology
- The simile "Slice of ice" in his/her brain recalls the fairy tale of The Snow Queen in which a character is turned mean by a slice of ice that becomes lodged in his eye.
- He/she emerges as a frustrated, lonely, unfulfilled outcast with a taste of cruelty.
- Theme
- Crime
- Cruelty
- Alienation
- Crime
- Summary
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