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1
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Poet?

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Imtiaz Dharker

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About?

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Opens describing a building that’s poorly built and falling apart.
The speaker reveals that someone lives in there despite the danger.
The narrator notices a basket of eggs hanging outside the window and how fragile they are representing hope.

3
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Context?

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Dharker was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow and now lives in Britain and India. She wrote this about housing in Mumbai, India.

4
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Form:

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Irregular form
Lines of different lengths
Enjambment

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Structure:

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Two parts -

The unstable building and the optimism for the future

6
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Q - Start, Unsteady building, Overpopulation

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‘There are just no enough straight lines’

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Q - Direct address of the issue - Poor building and overpopulation links

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‘That is the problem’

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Q - First stanza ending - Hope

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‘The whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous.’

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Q - Second Stanza end - Hope

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‘squeezed living space’

10
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Q - Final Stanza end - Hope

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‘bright, thin walls of faith.’

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Q - Antitheses, Light and Dark suggests hope

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‘fragile curves of white hung out over the dark edge’

‘gathering the light into themselves’