Angels’ Wings Flashcards
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About
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- reflections on a transformative experience that the poet has a young teenager
- reflection of choices we make.
2
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themes
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- mortality
- human fragility
- understanding of life and death
3
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summary
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- recollections when 14, when believed grasp on political ideologies, such as Lenin and Mao
- while poetry of Christina less important
-April, Sunday, waiting for father in corridor. brother and her quiet - dark man, white hair invited them in room, with wings, lungs (different colours from smoking)
4
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specific terms
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- palatable sense of unease.
- strong, visceral language
5
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existentialism
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the existentialist theme of mortality and the confrontation with the physical limitation of existence
