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    The poem describes a crowd that has caught a woman they perceive as not decent. She is scared from being roughed up by the crowd. The persona notes that while the crowd's hands seem virtuous, their intention is to stone the woman. A preacher interrupts and writes something for the crowd to see, passing judgment on them and allowing the woman to judge the crowd in turn. The crowd leaves, still holding stones to throw another day. The analysis identifies literary devices used, including sarcasm in calling the woman not decent, personification in describing "kisses of stone", and a pun in the title referring both to distance and stoning. Biblical allusions to Mary Magdalene are present. Contrast

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    The poem describes a crowd that has caught a woman they perceive as not decent. She is scared from being roughed up by the crowd. The persona notes that while the crowd's hands seem virtuous, their intention is to stone the woman. A preacher interrupts and writes something for the crowd to see, passing judgment on them and allowing the woman to judge the crowd in turn. The crowd leaves, still holding stones to throw another day. The analysis identifies literary devices used, including sarcasm in calling the woman not decent, personification in describing "kisses of stone", and a pun in the title referring both to distance and stoning. Biblical allusions to Mary Magdalene are present. Contrast

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    The poem describes a crowd that has caught a woman they perceive as not decent. She is scared from being roughed up by the crowd. The persona notes that while the crowd's hands seem virtuous, their intention is to stone the woman. A preacher interrupts and writes something for the crowd to see, passing judgment on them and allowing the woman to judge the crowd in turn. The crowd leaves, still holding stones to throw another day. The analysis identifies literary devices used, including sarcasm in calling the woman not decent, personification in describing "kisses of stone", and a pun in the title referring both to distance and stoning. Biblical allusions to Mary Magdalene are present. Contrast

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    The poem describes a crowd that has caught a woman they perceive as not decent. She is scared from being roughed up by the crowd. The persona notes that while the crowd's hands seem virtuous, their intention is to stone the woman. A preacher interrupts and writes something for the crowd to see, passing judgment on them and allowing the woman to judge the crowd in turn. The crowd leaves, still holding stones to throw another day. The analysis identifies literary devices used, including sarcasm in calling the woman not decent, personification in describing "kisses of stone", and a pun in the title referring both to distance and stoning. Biblical allusions to Mary Magdalene are present. Contrast

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    Sydanie Campbell

    A Stone's Throw (Poem)


    Literal Meaning
    A crowd has caught a woman. The persona implies to the reader that the woman is not decent.
    She was beautiful, but scared because she had gotten 'roughed up' a little by the crowd. The
    persona states that the woman has experienced men's hands on her body before, but this
    crowd's hands were virtuous.
    He also makes a proviso that if this crowd bruises her, it cannot be compared to what she has
    experienced before. The persona also speaks about a last assault and battery to come. He
    justifies this last assault by calling it justice, and it is justice that feels not only right, but good.
    The crowd's 'justice' is placed on hold by the interruption of a preacher, who stops to talk to the
    lady.
    He squats on the ground and writes something that the crowd cannot see. Essentially, the
    preacher judges them, thereby allowing the lady to also judge the crowd, leading to the crowd
    inevitably judging itself. The crowd walks away from the lady, still holding stones [which can be
    seen as a metaphor for judgments] that can be thrown another day.
    Literary Devices
    SARCASM:
    The persona is making the point that the lady was in fact NOT decent looking.
    PERSONIFICATION:
    This device is particularly effective because the word 'kisses' is used. Kiss implies something
    pleasant, but it is actually utilized to emphasize something painful that has happened to the
    lady; she was stoned.\
    PUN:
    Title: The title of the poem is itself a pun on two levels. A stone's throw is used by many people in the
    Caribbean to describe a close distance. eg. "She lives a stone's throw away". The other use of the
    title is to highlight the content of the poem. It is a figurative stoning, or judging, of a woman.
    ALLUSION (biblical) the content of the poem alludes to the story of Mary Magdalene in the Christian
    Bible. See John 8 v 5-7.
    Contrast
    Lines 13-15: These lines show that the men who were holding stones believe they are more morally
    upright than the other men with whom the woman associates.
    Irony
    One would think that men with virtuous hands would have only pure thoughts, but these men intend
    to stone the woman, who seems utterly defenseless. Also, images of cruelty are used, such as
    bruised, kisses of stone, battery and frigid rape.
    TONE
    The tone of the poem is mixed. At times it is almost braggadocious, and then it becomes
    sarcastic, moving to scornful.
    Themes
    Discrimination- The poor treatment the persona receives by the men in the poem as a result of her
    profession.
    Religion
    Appearance vs. reality
    Hypocrisy,
    Oppression,
    Power and Powerlessness

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