Planners and City Planners Comparison

​Planners and City Planners Comparison

By:Sheetal​

Multiple Choice

Q.Who is the author of City Planners?

• Boey Kim Cheng

• Cardi B

• Ruskin Bond

• James Bond

Multiple Choice

Q.When was the city planners published?

• 1964

• 1876

Multiple Choice

When was the author of planners born?

• 1940

• 1920

• 1939

• 1990

Multiple Choice

From where is margaret atwood?

• England

• China

• Australia

• Ottawa

​"City Planners" by Margaret Atwood

​- Takes place in a tidy suburb
- About humanity's desire for perfection in everything and rigid control.
- We are misusing earth's resources and force order on our natural world
- The speaker seems to feel that the world the planners have created is artificial and disturbing
- However, the speaker does suggest that the world created by the planners is not entirely perfect; underneath the surface, there are hints of imperfections
- The speaker then describes how these perfect buildings are destroyed; however, the planners are not discouraged, and they instead scatter across the world, attempting to map new plans

​Planners by Boey Kim Cheng

​- About anonymous people who develop land in the name of "progress" but the reduction of nature
- How the planners have control over everything, even nature ad how relentless and careless they are with their power

​SIMILARITIES

​Themes:

• challenges of everyday life in contact with the natural world.

Structure:

• Both are free verse poems.​

​DIFFRENCES

​Title:

• The group then directs us to believe:

• the poems are going to be about sameness.

•  The“Planners”. This suggests control, organization and forward thinking again linking to the main themes and ideas.

Literary Techniques:

• The City Planners” Atwood employs strong imagery such as “the houses in pedantic rows” while in “

• The Planners” Boey adopts an extended metaphor on mathematics and applied sciences.

• In “The City Planners”, the use of the personification and simile “.

​Tone:

• In the city planners,the speaker's tone is disapproving and stern throughout as she critiques the suburbs and those who create them.

• The tone is skeptical. The speaker describes the progress he sees playing out around him and suggests that it is doing more harm than good without ever directly saying so

Structure:

• 'The Planners' by Boey Kim Cheng is a three-stanza poem that is divided into one set of nine lines, one of ten lines, and another four-line stanza. The city planners has 38 lines are broken into 7 stanzas of varying lengths.

Multiple Choice

Are both the poems free verse?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How does the poem’s structure reveal conflicts between the ideals of the speaker and those of the City Planners?

• Each stanza provides lengthy descriptions of the City Planners’ thoughts and minimal descriptions of the speaker’s motivations.

• The speaker’s complaints in the opening stanzas transition to the adverse description of the City Planners in the last stanzas.

• The long stanzas reveal positive memories for the speaker, and the short stanzas convey negative remarks about the City Planners.

• Each stanza presents an unbiased view of the speaker’s emotions and then a biased interpretation of the City Planners’ actions.

Multiple Choice

Who is Margaret Atwood holding responsible for the urban sprawl or more boring suburbs ?

• You and me

• Others

• herself

• Politicians and City Planners

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative device in the following line :

“when the houses, capsized, will slide”

• Sibilance

• Assonance

• Irony

• Allusion

Multiple Choice

Which phrase provides a contrast to the uniformity of the neighborhood?

• “the roofs all display / the same slant of avoidance”

• "a plastic hose poised in a vicious / coil”

• “a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise”

• “the too-fixed stare of the wide windows”