Touch – Hugh Lwin
· A
1 When I get out
2 I’m going to ask someone
To touch me · Contrasts what touch in prison f elt like
Very gently please · He has been treated so inhumanely in prison that
And slowly, he needs to relearn what dignity/love f eels like –
3 Touch me what it is like not to f ear touch
I want
To learn again
How life feels.
·
4 I’ve not been touched · Untouched: he has never been touched bef ore
5 For seven years OR he has not been touched in a loving/caring
way f or 7 years
· Out of touch: no longer relevant/no longer
understands/no longer has any idea of current
For seven years af f airs OR losing his mind because he has been
I’ve been untouched in jail f or so long – emotionally isolated f rom
Out of touch caring human contact
6 And I’ve learnt · Untouchable: can’t be touched/thinks he is above
to know now everybody else and has no consequences or his
the meaning of actions/entitled OR basically indicates low self -
untouchable. esteem/no one wants to touch him (some autistic
people don’t like the f eeling of being touched)
· Connotations: touch is negatived
·
7 Untouched – not quite
8 I can count the things ·
9 That have touched me
·
10 One: fists
11 At the beginning
Fierce mad fists
Beating beating · Repetition: emphasised how f requently it
Till I remember occured
12
Screaming
Don’t touch me
Please don’t touch me
·
13 Two: paws · Daily searches
14 The first four years of paws · Paws: uncivilased, irritation, negative
connotations, constant irritating touch
Every day · Indif f erent: not seen as an individual/nobody
Putting paws, searching cares
- Arms up, shoes off · Prodding: invasive – don’t have to be beaten to
Leg apart – be dehumanised
15 · Paws: animalistic – hands are more human and
Prodding paws, systematic
Heavy, indifferent speaker does not want the guards to be
Probing away portrayed as human
All privacy. · Alliteration: speeds up the rhythm – imitates
constant motion of being searched
· A
1 When I get out
2 I’m going to ask someone
To touch me · Contrasts what touch in prison f elt like
Very gently please · He has been treated so inhumanely in prison that
And slowly, he needs to relearn what dignity/love f eels like –
3 Touch me what it is like not to f ear touch
I want
To learn again
How life feels.
·
4 I’ve not been touched · Untouched: he has never been touched bef ore
5 For seven years OR he has not been touched in a loving/caring
way f or 7 years
· Out of touch: no longer relevant/no longer
understands/no longer has any idea of current
For seven years af f airs OR losing his mind because he has been
I’ve been untouched in jail f or so long – emotionally isolated f rom
Out of touch caring human contact
6 And I’ve learnt · Untouchable: can’t be touched/thinks he is above
to know now everybody else and has no consequences or his
the meaning of actions/entitled OR basically indicates low self -
untouchable. esteem/no one wants to touch him (some autistic
people don’t like the f eeling of being touched)
· Connotations: touch is negatived
·
7 Untouched – not quite
8 I can count the things ·
9 That have touched me
·
10 One: fists
11 At the beginning
Fierce mad fists
Beating beating · Repetition: emphasised how f requently it
Till I remember occured
12
Screaming
Don’t touch me
Please don’t touch me
·
13 Two: paws · Daily searches
14 The first four years of paws · Paws: uncivilased, irritation, negative
connotations, constant irritating touch
Every day · Indif f erent: not seen as an individual/nobody
Putting paws, searching cares
- Arms up, shoes off · Prodding: invasive – don’t have to be beaten to
Leg apart – be dehumanised
15 · Paws: animalistic – hands are more human and
Prodding paws, systematic
Heavy, indifferent speaker does not want the guards to be
Probing away portrayed as human
All privacy. · Alliteration: speeds up the rhythm – imitates
constant motion of being searched
