Her får du overblik over, hvordan du kan lave en god analyse af digtet "The Song of the Spectators" af Mary Payne, som findes i lærebogen Wider Contexts (s. 22). Vi kommer ind på alt det væsentlige: Indhold, opbygning, fortæller, rim, rytme, tema og meget mere.
Præsentation af teksten
Titel: “The Song of the Spectators”
Forfatter: Mary Payne
Udgivelsesår: 1964
Genre: Digt
Digtet er skrevet af en britisk forfatter og udkommet i et venstreorienteret magasin, Tribune Magazine, i 1964, men mere vides ikke om digtet eller om forfatteren.
Uddrag
Her får du et summary af digtet "The Song of the Spectators" som en smagsprøve på analysehjælpen:
Summary
A speaker, who is part of the collective character of the spectators, describes the way onlookers enjoy anything there is to watch, good or bad, as long as they do not get involved.
The speaker knows these spectators watched Jesus Christ suffer on the cross without taking any action. They also watched people guillotined during the French revolution or Joan D’Arc being burned on a pyre.
Later on, they watched Jews being deported to concentration camps and even the trial of the man responsible for their deportation, without any involvement. The speaker knows spectators do not get involved because they want to survive, but warns against a future day in which a bomb might kill everybody because spectators only watched.
