‘O the unrivalled stench of branded skin’

The use of O suggests that the event is dramatised or retrospectively. Looking back maybe in pain.

1st person

This might mean the the poem is a little more personal and meaningful. Feeling the extreme of emotion ( love and pain )

the last stanza ( my butterfingered way )

Might be showing how silly and funny the writer was before. Looking retrospectively at the good times. How love and nerves had past and now he is left with just remorse and regret. He is not apologetic but feels that things could lead have been better if an alternative had happened (asking he/she/it to marry him) I get this from the use of ‘Don’t believe me,please…’ and ‘…my buttered fingered way…’

Miss Maudie believes that Maycomb society is the ‘safest’ place in the world. I get this from the quote ‘We’re the safest folks in the world’. I put the word ‘safe’ in bunny ears as I believe that she is not truthful and on honest in what she says. I believe that she thinks that Maycomb is an unfair society where only one group of individuals benefit, however there are members of the society that do the dirty work to even out the difference, people like Atticus. I get this from the quote ‘I SIMPLY want to say there are SOME MEN in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them’

Exploring this sentence further the use of the word ‘simply’ suggest that there is no argument and that this might be miss Maudie true opinion. As well of this, because of my contextual knowledge, I can imply that the use of ‘some men’ can only refer to Atticus and men like Hate Tate and Judge Taylor. This is because miss Maudie has great respect for these men as they are ‘good Christians’ (Christians not in the religious sense but doing the right thing no matter what)

Blert right word (1st) from Joel North on Vimeo.