3 EN23: Conclusions on "Reporting from the Great Dictionary Disaster" by Mette Vollbrecht Würtz Petersen https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu REMEMBER NAMES en-us 2020-06-24 14:20:23 UTC 2025-10-06 08:49:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f6a8.png Anders og Marianne https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu/wish/638812366 Play with words:
"Bananas hands forming a queue"
- A cluster of bananas are shaped like hands and are sitting in a queue

Personification:
- "Why is it weeping between its covers?"
- "But words are voting with their feet"
- "Sofas huddle themselves into caravans (...)"

Alliterations: 
Rhymes: End-rhyme 
- For example "backs" and "tracks" or "mid-swing" and "beginning"
- And in the last stanza "tragedy" and "comedy" or "coverage! and "language" 
 
Tone of the poem:
Intense it's a "tragedy"

Message/intention:
The English language is loosing all its foreign words. 
- The English dictionary "has grown thin"

Conclusion:
John Agard's poem "Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster" takes form as a newspaper story with the intention of informing people about the English dictionary loosing its loan words. He critisises the conservative people in England who wants to keep the language pure.
]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu/wish/638812366 Group 6. https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu/wish/638812367 Conclusion: "Reporting form the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster" is a poem by John Agard which creates a fake news story where all of the english loan words and objects that are named after said words suddenly disappear.
Agard uses these words to create a varity of word play such as a dictionary weepeing between its covers. He also uses personification in order to make the words seem living as the words vote and objects stage mass evacuations. 
The intention of Agard is to highlight how much the english language relies on foreign words. 
His tone is mainly comedic as he combines poetry and news reporting comparing all of these objects and word leaving to a warzone or another disaster. He creates the comparison to a newspaper story by using news words and phrases to create a semantic word map which makes the reader think of the news. 
*something about how the poem is pro immigrant*  
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Personification: 
- Sofas huddel themselves into caravans
- Pyjamas without regard to size or age take off
- bananas hands forming a queue are now bound for a Bantu rendezvous

Alliteration:

Rhymes:
- End rhymes
Example:
Anoracks, backs, tracks, 
mid-swing, beginning
age, pilgrimage
caravans, sands
chance, France

Tone and intention:
The tone is somewhat serious in the sense, that he is reporting it as a disaster.
The message/intention could be that the English language has to many loan words.

Conclusion:
John Agard's poem "Reporting from the frontline of the great dictionary disaster" takes the form of a news report, and criticizes the conservative people of England who doesn't want foreigners to ruin their country. He does this by telling how the cultures are already mixed through the English language and the use of alot of loan words. They therefor should accept the foreigners and their culture. The poem is ironic in the sense that he disguises the poem as a news artical in a way, which can often be seen speaking about immigrants. He plays on alot of associations.

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-Epic
-linguists... rioting
-Crossword-lovers...hungerstrike

Personification:
-"Dictionary mourns its language"
-"The english dictionary has grown thin"
-"Weeping between its covers"
-"but words are voting with their feet"
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Alliteration:
billow back

Rhymes:
End rhymes in the short stanzas.
example:
- Backs --> tracks
- Mid swing --> beginning
- Age --> pilgrimage
- Caravans --> sands
- Chance --> France

Tone of the poem and its message/intention.
The tone is dramatic and sensational, since he is reporting about a disaster. This is also shown in his word-choice. example: rioting, hunger strike etc. The. The tone is also sarcastic --> there are too many loan words.

Conclusion
John Agard's poem "reporting from the frontline of the great dictionary disaster" is written in a sensational, but sarcastic tone. He  ]]> 2020-06-24 14:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu/wish/638812370 Ea og Marius https://padlet.com/qrv6rfap5x/86ppew48hqfkbiuu/wish/638812373 •Play with word:

Personification: "Why is it weeping between its covers"
The lists of words of foreign origin. 

•Alliteration:
Hammocks, leave bodies in mid-swing and billow back to a Carib beginning. 

•Rhymes:

•Discuss the tone of the poem and its message/intention: - The language has influenced the people, but the people have also influenced the language as well (the cultural clashes between immigrants and British culture)
- The author uses foreign words from other countries to illustrate that we cannot remove or take the words out from the dictionary (words of foreign origin return to their native borders). The words represents the native people and their cultural influence. 


•Make a conclusion on the results of your analysis using the following words:

•Poem, news, loan words, word play, intention, tone, semantic word map, personification.
- linguists

Why has the English dictionary grown so thin?
- whitout the foreign words, the dictionary will be "thin"


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