Tim Seibles (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

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Commercial Break: Roadrunner, Uneasy
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Poet of 'Commercial Break: Roadrunner, Uneasy'

Tim Seibles

Tim Seibles' birth year

1955

Tim Seibles' role in Virginia

Poet Laureate of Virginia

Seibles collection shortlisted for National Book Award

Fast Animal (2012)

Poetry technique Seibles is known for

Persona poetry

Collection containing poem (1999)

Hammerlock

Narrative perspective of poem

First-person

Speaker in the poem

The Roadrunner (cartoon character)

Roadrunner's main feeling in poem

Tired

Products fuelling the chase

ACME gadgets/supplies

What Roadrunner suspects is being played on them

A 'big joke'

Who Roadrunner suspects he & Coyote work for

The same people

Surface level meaning of poem

Entertainment using cartoon characters

Deeper themes explored in poem

Power, control, systemic manipulation

What endless chase metaphorically represents

Manipulation by larger systems

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