#2.4 : European Literature Flashcards
What theme eventually emerged during the contemporary period in English literature?
Themes about “reforms and personal accounts and experiences of men”
It is defined as “a written record of a person’s knowledge of events or of a person’s own experiences”.
Memoir
The author of the excerpt “Bad Blood”.
Lorna Sage
What is the memoir of Lorna Sage all about?
This memoir narrates her childhood and adolescent memories with her family and her life in Hanmer, a small town on the border between Wales and Shropshire.
What social classes are seen in the excerpt?
The “upper class” are the big girls of fourteen and fifteen who went to the secondary modern, the “middle class” are the boys in the same school, and the “low class” are the grammar school boys and high school girls.
How do these social classes differ from each other?
The girls from the secondary modern love to talk amongst each other and paint their nails. They are also interested in boys and jobs, while the boys from the secondary modern are playful and mischievous. On the other hand, grammar school boys and high school girls are poor.
How did the upper class “oppress” those in the lower class?
Oppression is seen in the seating plan of the bus. The girls from the secondary modern get the good seats at the back. They claim that the back seats are only for them, as can be seen in the last paragraph of the excerpt. The grammar school boys and high school girls get the less desirable place on the bus. To add, they can sit only if there are seats left for them.
She is an award-winning Scottish poet who became the first woman to be appointed as the United Kingdom’s poet laureate in 2009.
Carol Ann Duffy
The title of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem
Text
A literary approach used to the poem
Psychoanalytic criticism
What could be her unconscious desire as implied by the text?
Duffy could have intentionally failed to mention the persona’s and his lover’s gender to show the universality of love. She may want the readers to focus on the emotions expressed in the poem, instead of picturing who the characters are.
