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Cataract Operation Title ----- The title refers to the removal of a dull film from the eyes. This is a poem about sight and awareness. bodily structure Another poem of twenty lines, being made up of disco biscuit couplets. Again the poet plays with rhyme as in the pun hens and lens. expression The poem is rife with clich, metaphor and puns. The poem starts with a very characteristic simile The cheerfulness comes like a head through start nights turtleneck. This not only gives the reader a comical image of the sun coming up but links this time of day with open-eyed up and hurrying to dress up in yesterdays clothes. By ever-changing everyday ordinary things into extraordinary images, the poet creates a vivid picture and a sense of movement. He does this through his choice of words, his handling of colloquial expressions and his use of metaphor. Notice how he describes the pigeon. The expression turns tail is particularly effective becau se it suggests that the pigeon is routine and taking flight, all in one quick movement. comparing the tail to a magician fanning out a pack of card also works well because it expresses the magic of a brief flash when the pigeon opens out its tail feathers. The theatrical metaphor is continued with a mimic of damp, forgotten washing which now plays out the entertainment, where these ordinary things are transformed. So, as the bakshish stirs the washing, the poet imagines a bull fight enacted with the crimson towel, a can-can danced by the fluttering ra-ra skirt, the mischievous behaviour of the shirt, which flaps animatedly in the wind pegged only by its sleeve, waving of a handkerchief like an sluttish goodbye, and imagines a parade of hens are a company of soldiers strutting round the courtyard. move of the pictures are real and some are imagined. The poem can be compared to a magic eye picture. If it is studied for long enough, the picture change s and recondite images emerge.