English Anthology
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
Compare two texts from the Anthology which present the art of dining.
Text 2 is called ‘Eating Out’ it is poem by U A Fanthorpe about a transition of relationships overtime whereas Text 29 is a novel extract from The Warden by Anthony Trollope written around the time of Oliver Twist about a dining experience at Plumstead Episcopi. ‘Eating Out’ is a poem that is written in seven couplets with fifteen lines and with the purpose to inform and entertain. Whereas Text 29 is a novel extract written in complete prose with just one paragraph, including the use of enjambment and outmoded sentence structure, which mainly consist of extremely long sentences. This is said to be outmoded because sentence structuring mainly consists of a variety of structures nowadays. Text 29 also includes the use of synthetic listing whereby the ‘and’ is missed out making the text conclusive and attracting an audience because it makes the extract seem strong and convincing therefore implying the reader to believe there may be a slight pleasure in the art of dining. This also makes the extract conventional and shows the readers that it adheres to the conventions of a book extract which attracts the readers into reading on.
The audience for Text 2 is adults because of the amount of complex lexis included in it also because of the French, fine cuisine styled lexis written in italics which emphasises the poem as being posh and sophisticated as well as attracting a French or upper class audience. However this is slightly contradicted by the small use of colloquialism in the fourth couplet where it says ‘or pocket them for later’ which suggests to the reader that the character wants to take food home with them to eat for later because they won’t be going home to anymore food, therefore the reader may think the character is potentially from a lower social class where a regular
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592)
Compare two texts from the Anthology which present the art of dining.
Text 2 is called ‘Eating Out’ it is poem by U A Fanthorpe about a transition of relationships overtime whereas Text 29 is a novel extract from The Warden by Anthony Trollope written around the time of Oliver Twist about a dining experience at Plumstead Episcopi. ‘Eating Out’ is a poem that is written in seven couplets with fifteen lines and with the purpose to inform and entertain. Whereas Text 29 is a novel extract written in complete prose with just one paragraph, including the use of enjambment and outmoded sentence structure, which mainly consist of extremely long sentences. This is said to be outmoded because sentence structuring mainly consists of a variety of structures nowadays. Text 29 also includes the use of synthetic listing whereby the ‘and’ is missed out making the text conclusive and attracting an audience because it makes the extract seem strong and convincing therefore implying the reader to believe there may be a slight pleasure in the art of dining. This also makes the extract conventional and shows the readers that it adheres to the conventions of a book extract which attracts the readers into reading on.
The audience for Text 2 is adults because of the amount of complex lexis included in it also because of the French, fine cuisine styled lexis written in italics which emphasises the poem as being posh and sophisticated as well as attracting a French or upper class audience. However this is slightly contradicted by the small use of colloquialism in the fourth couplet where it says ‘or pocket them for later’ which suggests to the reader that the character wants to take food home with them to eat for later because they won’t be going home to anymore food, therefore the reader may think the character is potentially from a lower social class where a regular