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Giuseppe by Roderick Ford
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As English Literature, Edexcel, From Poems of the Decade
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Giuseppe by Roderick Ford
Themes
Collective Guilt
Humanity's Dark Side
Moral boundaries
Pressure of war
Fairy tales relating to the human world
Who is Giuseppe?
The Uncle of the Narrator
The Aquarium keeper
Contrasts and ambiguities (there are a lot of them!)
People described
Doctor
A doctor should save lives but in this case allows the mermaids death
Is NOT a vet, shows how the people present are aware she is more human than fish
Priest
"held one of her hands"
Praying or holding her down?
Fishmonger
Represents the side which she is viewed as an animal
Certain others
Hints that people of a high authority are present
Mermaid
Is one big metaphor for an outsider or enemy that the troops face in war
Language
Deliberately flat and factual
Only two adjectives and one similie used
Who is the narrator?
Gender is never mentioned
However hints of being female
The sympathy for the mermaid
The use of the pronoun "they"
Separates her views and theirs
Would then be Giuseppe's niece
What on earth is the poem about?
The killing of the "only captive mermaid in the world"
It is one large metaphor
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