Techniques Poem - Enter Without So Much As Knocking Explanation

Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.

(Epigraph: Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.)
Blink, blink shows the meanings of the baby
opening their eyes.
Blink, blink. HOSPITAL. SILENCE.
Ten days old, carried in the front door in his There are short sentences to indicate the
Capital letters to emphasise points.
mother's arms, first thing he heard was
Bobby Dazzler on Channel 7:
Hello, hello hello all you lucky people and he
really was lucky because it didn't mean a thing
to him then...
                     
A year or two to settle in and
get acquainted with the set-up; like every other
Satirical language well-equipped smoothly-run household, his included
Mum fits into the normal everyday life.
one economy-size Mum, one Anthony Squires- Average person.
Fits into the clothes and a serotype of fitting
Coolstream-Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids
into the norm.
straight off the Junior Department rack. consumption
              
When Mum won the
Satirical tone Luck's-A-Fortch Tricky-Tune Quiz she took him shopping
Uppercase font in the good-as-new station-wagon (£ 495 dep. at Reno's). Tone is satirical and saying the norm isn’t
always goods.
Exaggeration Beep, beep. WALK. DON'T WALK. TURN
Rules of society. Restrictive.
Imperative language LEFT. NO PARKING. WAIT HERE. NO Short and to the point
SMOKING. KEEP CLEAR/OUT/OFF GRASS. NO
Exaggerations of rules to extremities “no
BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER. BEWARE OF breathing”
THIS. WATCH OUT FOR THAT. My God (beep)
instructions
Onomatopoeia the congestion here just gets (beep)
worse every day, now what the (beep beep) does
The beeps creates a sense of frustration to
that idiot think he's doing (beep beep and BEEP). society.
             
Tone shift However, what he enjoyed most of all was when they
went to the late show at the local drive-in, on a clear night
Angry to frustrating to more calm.
and he could see (beyond the fifty-foot screen where “However,” indicates that there is a contrast
in tones coming up.
Imagery giant faces forever snarled screamed or make
incomprehensible and monstrous love) a pure Nature and how it is untouched and
beautiful. Describes the opposite of what
unadulterated fringe of sky, littered with stars
people normally do. “Littered with star”
no-one had got around to fixing up yet: he'd watch them instead of rubbish.
Simle circling about in luminous groups like kids at the circus
who never go quite close enough to the elephant to get kicked.
Comparison using like or as. “like kids at the
 
circus”
Tone shift Anyway, pretty soon he was old enough to be A sense of innocence.
realistic like every other godless
money-hungry back-stabbing miserable More negative
Casual language.
Colloquial language so-and-so, and then it was goodbye stars and the soft
His view on the world is a bit dark. – cynical
puntuation cry in the corner when no-one was looking because
Conversational tone
I'm telling you straight, Jim, it's Number One every time
for this chicken, hit wherever you see a head and Hes venting and the sentence and it just
keeps going and going the whole time.
kick whoever's down, well thanks for a lovely
evening Clare, it's good to get away from it all
once in a while, I mean it's a real battle all the way
Turns a little positive
and a man can't help but feel a little soiled, himself,
He’s dirty from himself for being a hypocrite.
Rhetorical question at times, you know what I mean?
He’s part of the problem
                               
 Now take it easy Wants the audience to think about it.
on those curves, Alice, for God's sake,
I've had enough for one night, with that Clare Jessup,
hey, ease up, will you, watch it --
He is one of the people. sense of
hypocropsy.
Probity & Sons, Morticians,
did a really first-class job on his face
(everyone was very pleased) even adding a
healthy tan he'd never had, living, gave him back for keeps
Even in death we can’t escape
the old automatic smile with nothing behind it,
consumerision.
winding the whole show up with a
Contrast
nice ride out to the underground metropolis
Everyone thought he wasn’t that nice of a
permanent residentials, no parking tickets, no taximeters person but now the morticians is making
him look good. This is a direct contrast.
ticking, no Bobby Dazzlers here, no down payments,
nobody grieving over halitosis “the underground metropolis” the city of the
dead.
flat feet, shrinking gums, falling hair.

Six feet down nobody interested. 

Blink, blink. CEMETERY. Silence.