SAMPLE IDEA MAP: JOHN MONTAGUE
Loneliness
Suffering
Human pain
Achieved especially through the
“I” voice - Montague is present
in the poems, telling us of his
own experience first hand.
Love; his relationships
with specific persons
Nature
THEMES
IMMEDIACY
COMPASSION
SIMILES &
METAPHORS
Rich similes and metaphors
Eg: Dolmens, the Wild Dog Rose,
the Cage, the Locket
Uses the “rhythms of living speech”
- the normal cadences of the speaking voice
LANGUAGE
JOHN
MONTAGUE
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Compassionate understanding,
sensitive - a reaching-out poet
USE OF
1ST PERSON
The “I” voice
- I, my, me
Conversational, accessible.
NARRATIVE STYLE
Poems grounded in specific
persons and places and in
his own real experience
MEMOIR
QUALITY
Vividly recalls the past
Like a story being told
or an experience
being related