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To conclude there is used a lot of personifications in the poem as for example: “grab the chance” (Baguettes), “flying off backs” (Anoraks), “hands forming a queue” (bananas). There is also used word-play as “huddle”, which is what the sofa does in the text, but usually it is what people do, when they are sitting in a sofa. He does also use some words from the news and reporting world as for example “stay turned” and “as we speak”. John agard are great at making silly poems, which makes people remember them. This is important if you want to spread a message.

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The poem, that is formed as a news article with the same words and the catchy headline, is filled with word plays like personifications, rhymes and a humorous approach. These, combined with the combination of a dramatic and humoristic tone in the semantic word map, defines his intention, that is to criticize the superior-feeling brits and culture, a feeling that makes the other cultures, that the British dictionary got a lot of loan words from, inferior to them.

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John Agards poem “Reporting from the frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” has a very dramatic tone, because he uses words from the “news world” and thereby creates a semantic word map to describe the situation the english language is in. His intention is to express his sadness about the development of the english language and thinks that more and more loan words are joining the language. To make his poem lively he uses personifications mostly about the language crying, which creates a focus on the words themselves and by giving them feelings the reader feels sympathy.

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The poem is constructed in a way where the semantic word map incorporate words from news report which makes the tone of the poem dramatic. The tone in stanza 2-7 are more humoristic because of his personification of the words.The poet who wrote the poem shows how the english language was inspired by other languages and formed through loaned words. He does this through word play where he shows the words origin through the way the words travel back to where they come from. His intention with the poem is to show the english language would be nothing without foreign words.

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Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster is a poem by John Agard. He is presenting the poem as a news report from the main scene - the loan words in the English language are leaving the dictionary by using this semantic word map throughout the poem. The tone in the poem is very dramatic and affected by the headline-grabbing culture in the news today. He is playing with the words and the meaning of these in the poem, and uses these to praise the English language.

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The Poem of John Agard is about the loan words of the english language leaving to return to their native borders. Throughout the poem he uses a semantic word-map describing the situation as a news reportation. He dramatizes the issue of the dictionary by describing it as a warfare. This creates a humorous tone because it seems to be a silly problem, however it is the intention of John Agard. In the poem he also uses different word plays such as “Sofas huddle…” which is what people usually do in sofas.

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The poem is in the style of a news report in which an alarming and sensational tone is being used to make the reader aware of the consequenses of the English dictionary's evolution. Different  Word plays such as personifications are being used. Some of the personifications are "anoraks have been seen flying" and "pyjamas take off on a pilgrimage". These "dead" words recieve the assets of humans and become human-like. He has used loan words from other languages such as the french word 'rendezvous' and all the words he describes in the different stanzas.

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In the poem, Agards intention is to tell the reader to acknowledge how the English language consists of many loaned words from other languages.
His tone of voice is very humorous and playful, as well as pulling on aspects of the news-genre such as the headline. Agard plays with the words by creating personifications throughout his poem. Fro example, he describes "words are voting with their feet" (l.8). The theme of "news" can create a semantic word map including the words from the poem such as "reports", "stay tuned for direct and live coverage" and "as we speak". At the same time he uses sensational words often used in news to create a similar affect. Some of these words are "rioting", "strike" and "mass evacuation".

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The language in the poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” written by John Agard is characterized by containing many elements from real news reports. This semantic word map is also expressed in the title, and by having a humoristic tone in its style of writing. Furthermore, there are used loanwords from other languages such as ‘hammocks’. In the poem wordplay is used to involve humor, and the personifications also makes the poem humoristic. The intention with the poem is that you have to remember that a lot of the words in the English dictionary come from other countries.

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The poem is seems to be inspired by news reports, because of the similar traits we see in news reports and in this poem. While doing this the writer also uses loan words in which he with the use of humor,and wordplay shows how their going back to their different origins.The intention of doing this is to show the readers the amount of words that are actually borrowed, and how the english dictionary by itself doesn't have many words. The tone in the poem is very humoristic

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In the poem which is presented as a news report, loan words from different cultures and uses them in his word plays. The intention of the poem is to inform and spread the word about the English language is developing. To spread the word he is using the personifications on different things as "baguettes, bananas and sofas". This leads to the tone being very humorous and descriptive on the story of the English language.