Poetic devices (LFFs) Analysis-Table -
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Flame Tree In a Quarry Judith Wright
Name of the language techniques
(LFF)
Name:
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Miss
K’s explanation
of the LFFs in the first
stanza of Flame Tree in a Quarry. Your turn!!
What is the effect of using the technique? + link to
You
representation of “People & Landscapes”
DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER THE VARIOUS VALUES WHICH
CONNECT TO NOTIONS AND IDEAS OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
(eg: romanticism / post-colonial / dominant / indigenous /
From the Broken bone of the hill*/
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stripped and left for dead,
like a wrecked skull*,
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Leaps out this bush of blood.
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ALLITERATION (B B)
SYMBOLISM – “BROKEN
BONE” /”BUSH”/
“BLOOD”
ASSONANCE AND
NEGATIVE EMOTIVE
LANGUAGE
SIMILE
ACTIVE VERB ‘leaps”
JUXTAPOSITION – images
of death in first three lines
conclude with the
SYMBOLISM OF “BUSH OF
BLOOD”…
HALF-RHYME= echoes the
discomfort expressed in
the imagery
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The lyrical sounds created by the alliteration and assonance
contrasts with the arrhythmic effect of the half-rhyme of “hill /
skull” and “dead/blood”. This echoes the lifeless landscape
which has been “left for dead” and develops a sense of
discomfort in the reader.
The lexical chain of emotive past-tense verbs “broken /
stripped / wrecked establish a tone of aggression and fear.
This represents that the “hill” has been victim to a violent
destructive force.
The symbolism of “broken bone” and “wrecked skull” implies
that life did once exist in this landscape – but now - the only
evidence which remains are shattered skeletons. The lifeless
landscape then new life in the final line of the stanza.
Finally, the present tense active verb “leaps out” develops
new action. The action is compounded with the symbolic
“bush of blood”. The bush represents singular new growth
and the blood symbolizes life and warmth.
NOW… YOU CONTINUE THE EXPLANATIONS… 
Out of the torn earth’s mouth
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comes the old cry of praise.
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Still is the song made flesh
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PERSONNIFICATION –
“earth’s mouth”
INVERSION
ASSONANCE – “out;
mouth”
RELIGIOUS ALLUSION –
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Name of the language techniques
(LFF)
What is the effect of using the technique? + link to
representation of “People & Landscapes”
DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER THE VARIOUS VALUES WHICH
CONNECT TO NOTIONS AND IDEAS OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
(eg: romanticism / post-colonial / dominant / indigenous /
though the singer dies –
flesh of the world’s delight,
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voice of the world’s desire,
I drink you with my sight
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and I am filled with fire
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Out of the very wound
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“cry of praise”
ALLITERATION
ASSONANCE
SIBILANCE
SYMBOLISM – “flesh” =
alive, material, existing
SYMBOLISM – “singer
dies”
FULL RHYME=echoes the
change in tone, creates
comfort and rhythm
REPETITION
POSITIVE EMOTIVE WORD
CONTRASTING TONE AND
FOCUS
REPETITION OF
POSSESSIVE– “world’s
POSITIVE EMOTIVE TONE –
“delight; desire”
SYMBOL – “wound”
SIBILIANCE
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Name of the language techniques
(LFF)
What is the effect of using the technique? + link to
representation of “People & Landscapes”
DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER THE VARIOUS VALUES WHICH
CONNECT TO NOTIONS AND IDEAS OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
(eg: romanticism / post-colonial / dominant / indigenous /
springs up this scarlet breath –
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this fountain of hot joy,
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this living ghost of death
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ACTIVE VERB – “springs
up”
OXYMORON – “living
ghost”
JUXTAPOSITION – between
the two lines, “hot” and
“joy” vs “ghost” and
“death”
REPETITION – “spring” and
“fountain”, water, “springs
up” and “fountain” creates
IMAGERY