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The poem ‘Education for Leisure’ is extremely effective in many ways - Discuss
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Education for Leisure The poem 'Education for Leisure' is extremely effective in many ways. The poet has effectively used poetic techniques to show his/her attitude towards the speaker in the poem and has also given impressions of the speaker. The impressions that are given of the speaker are those of a murderous person who is full of menace and insanity. One of the ways that this is shown is in the first stanza when the words 'something' and 'Anything' are used in the sentence 'Today I am going to kill something. Anything'. This is because it tells the reader of the murderous intentions the speaker has. 'Anything' is a one word sentence and as it is short and straight to the point it suggests that the speaker is desperate for a victim. The first stanza also suggests that the speaker has a disturbed mind because to him/her the action of killing something...
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