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Not My Best Side by U.A. Fanthorpe pg 25

Not My Best Side. This poem is based on Uccello's painting St George and the Dragon.The poem's three stanzas are monologues from each of the three characters depicted in the painting

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Not My Best Side by U.A. Fanthorpe pg 25

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    3. Subject and Themes Mythology Stereotypes Personality

    14. Links to other poems… This poem is all about the way people’s true identities are hidden and that we never truly know what people are like. In this way, the poem links with the ‘faces’ people wear in ‘Once Upon a Time’. The subversion (breaking) of stereotypes links with ‘Warning’, where the narrator looks forward to breaking the tradition of a safe, cosy life in old age.

    15. Hints and Tips This is an enjoyable, clever poem which uses humour to make the point that people do not necessarily conform to stereotypes. If you wish to write about the poem in an exam you must be comfortable with the way humour is used: the irony of the girl admiring the dragon over the knight, the quite crude sexual innuendo, the use of rhetorical questions to address the audience. Other poems that use humour are ‘Warning’ and ‘I Shall Paint My Nails Red’. It is interesting to ask yourself which character you ‘side’ with the most. It is clearly not the traditional ‘hero’ figure of George.

    16. Sample Questions U.A. Fanthorpe uses humour to make a statement about people’s identity. Explain how this use of humour is effective. Look again at this poem and ‘Once Upon a Time’. What do these poems reveal about the way people are expected to conform to stereotypes in society?

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