Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Plums, Words, and Broken Things

  1. Both have the idea of an apology for eating another person's plums, which the speaker knew they were saving for a specific purpose.
  2. Text 1 is a note, while Text 2 is a poem which uses a large amount of enjambment.  Text 1 gives the reason that they were eaten, and also asks the speaker's mother for some other items to eat, whicle Text 2 does neither.  Text 2 also states that the peaches were good, while Text 1 doesn't.
  3. They possibly could be related to intention.  Text 1 just seems to be someone who leaves notes for their mother normally letting them know they ate the plums, there isn't that much food, and asking for her to buy some items.  Text 2 on the other hand seems like the speaker may've written the poem as something of an apology gift, and seems somewhat remorseful for eating them, but admits they did taste good.  While Text 1 seems to just be transferring information, Text 2 is transferring the information while giving something of how the speaker feels about what happened, and they the reader to feel or understand other than just that some events happened.
  4. Both display a pragmatic intention in how they plainly state the facts about the plums in words.  However, by shaping it into a poem, with a sort of delay that builds up tension while the reader reads through the different stanzas, though they really form only two sentences, and the way they seperated the 3rd stanza by itself, seems to indicate some more about what the speaker feels or thinks about what happened.
  5. The way it was written was shaped to carry more ideas and feeling than can be expressed directly in most prosaic texts, without using many more words.

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