Analysis of 'Snapshotland"
What Title means to you
2. A Place where...-Pictures are always taken
-Many memories
-Everyone has a camera
-The world is a camera
The whole world is just one still picture
An amusement park
Things that catch your attention
4.
- Promised Land
- Koadachrome or sepia
- The time they first appear
- Gingham pinafores
- Permanent delight
- Never passes out of sight
- Even if they don't appear later
- The people are still always there
Features of Language
5.
- Smooth Sand: Alliteration
- Smile and Smile and Smile: Repitition
- Forever...Other: Rhyme
- Air...there: Rhyme
- Lavender...Ever: Rhyme
Groups of Words
6.
- Kodachrome, Sepia
- Sandboys, Sandgirls
- Forever, always there
- Never passes out of sight, never stop, nobody, no one
Pattern
7. The whole poem talks about an everlasting world which never ends; words like forever, never stop etc shows this
What the Poem may Mean
8. Heaven; somewhere people go after death; a place where everybody is happy and everything is perfect
Questions
9. a) Persona
b) Spoken to the public in general
c) No emotion
d) It slowly reveals more and more about "Snapshotland" being a heaven
e) Gives snapshotland a happy feeling
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