Author Question: What is unusual about Kaufmans rimes? What will be an ideal ... (Read 63 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

What is unusual about Kaufmans rimes?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What do the hard ck sounds at the end of the poem resemble, and how does that fit with the poems theme and subject?

What will be an ideal response?

catron30 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

He rimes the names of musical instruments with the names of gangsters. He also usually pairs proper nouns with common names. The rimes are bluntly emphasized, as in a jingle or slogan.

Answer to Question 2

Both the sounds themselves and their steady, constant repetition suggest the ticking of a watch, echoing the speakers obsessive attention to the sound, with all that it suggests about her continual discontent and apparent longing for death.