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Anthology poems: Love and Relationships 2 Flashcards

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What is the premise of Before You Were Mine?

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The speaker is looking at a photograph of her mother and blending her own childhood memories of her life with the life she imagines her mother had before

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When did Duffy’s mother die?

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In 2005

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What religion did her parents practice?

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Roman Catholicism

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Language Before You Were Mine: Example of a hyperbole

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“ballroom with a thousand eyes”
hyperbolic description suggests she has a lot of pride for her mother and thinks that other people would be fascinated by her

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Language Before You Were Mine: Example of synaesthesia

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“clear as scent”
-blending of smell and sight

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Language: Before you were mine: What is the effect of synaesthesia

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The bond between Duffy and her mother is so strong that she is able to imagine vividly

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Tone: Before you were mine: Example of Duffy’s use of colloquial language

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“pals”

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Tone: Before you were mine: What is the effect of the colloquial language?

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It demonstrates the close mother-daughter bond she experienced with her mother

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Tone: Before you were mine: What juxtaposes the colloquial language?

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The formality of the word “mother”, which implies the more traditional Catholic upbringing and the tight social expectations surrounding mother and their children in 1950s

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Language: Before you were mine: Example of a holophrastic sentence?

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“Marylin”

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Language: Before you were mine: Effect of holophrastic sentence?

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emphasises a separation between her mother in the past and then during Duffy’s childhood

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Language Before you were mine: Monroe context

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-Monroe was a symbol of female sexuality which is intrinsically linked to woman’s individual freedom, suggesting her mother was pushing boundaries.

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Language Before you were mine: What does Monroe’s suicide later on in life suggest?

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Reflects the unhappiness which was associated with Duffy’s birth ten years later

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Language Before you were mine: Example of religious connotation

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“Mass”

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Language Before you were mine: What does the religious connotations contrast to?

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the carefree sexualised images of her earlier in the poem

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Language Before you were mine: What may the reference of religious connotations emphasise?

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the environment of responsibility and lack of freedom that her mother was trying to break away from, but is eventually forced to return after becoming a mother

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Tone Before You were Mine: Example of possessive language and its effect

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“mine”
-assertive tone, reversal of parent and child roles

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Tone Before You were Mine: Example of Caesura

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“from Mass, stamping stars from the wrong pavement”

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Tone Before You were Mine: Effect of caesura

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-creates conversational tone, suggests level of comfort in her bond

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Structure Before You were Mine: What sentence format does Duffy use when her perspective is that of a child’s?

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short, simple, sentence formats

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Structure Before You were Mine: When does Duffy use polysyllabic language?

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When talking about her childhood through and adult lens

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Structure Before You were Mine: How many stanzas and how many lines in each?

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Four stanzas of five equal lines

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Structure Before You were Mine: What does the uniform structure of the poem represent?

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The rigid social conventions placed on women during the 1950s

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Structure Before You were Mine: What type of frames does the narrative use?

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enaleptic to provide a range of flashbacks

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Brief summary of the Framer’s Bride

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This poem is about a farmer who marries a young girl who eventually runs away. She is chased down by the people in the area and brought back to the farm

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Who is the author of the Farmer’s Bride?

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Charlotte Mew

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What class was Charlotte Mew’s parents?

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Upper middle class

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What happened to the children of the Mew family?

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three died young and two experienced mental health problems when they were younger

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What was entailed in the pact that Mew made with one of her sisters?

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To never marry in fear of becoming mentally ill of passing mental illness onto their children

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What was beginning to gain prominence when Mew was writing this poem?

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suffrage

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Example of a metaphor

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“her smile went out, and twasn’t a woman”

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Effect of the metaphor

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the speaker explicitly states that he doesn’t see her as a person, showing how he objectifies her

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Example of syndetic listing

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“she turned afraid//Of love and me and all things human

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Effect of syndetic listing

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her isolation from humanity

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Example of simile

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“Shy as a leveret”

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Effect of simile

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characterises her as flighty and innocent as a leveret is a young hare

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Example of zoomorphism

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“The soft young down of her, the brown”

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Language the Framer’s Bride: Effect of zoomorphism

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infantilises his wife as she is aligned with a baby animal

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Example of fricative alliteration

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“frightened fay”

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Effect of fricative alliteration

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emphasises the almost violent objectification

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Example of alliteration

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“I’ve hardly heard her speak at all”

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Effect of alliteration

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creates an uncomfortable sound which causes the reader to question societal norms

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Example of sibilance

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“all in a shiver and a scare”

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Tone the Framer’s Bride: Effect of sibilance

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creates an ominous tone surrounding her returning to the farmhouse

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Structure the Framer’s Bride: How does Mew convey that the farmer becomes progressively despondent about his marriage?

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She uses a range on punctuation to manipulate the rhythm in the final stanza

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Structure the Framer’s Bride: Example of enjambment

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“She sleeps up in the attic there / Alone, poor maid”

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Structure the Framer’s Bride: What is the effect of the use of enjambment

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highlights the difference between the couple

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Brief summary of Mother Any Distance

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Armitage presents a speaker who is reflecting on the connection with his mother, from the perspective of childhood and growing up

49
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When did Armitage become poet Laureate?

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In 2019

50
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What is Simon Armitage, as well as a poet?

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a playwright and a novelist

51
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Where has Simon Armitage studied?

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At the University of Manchester and in Portsmouth

52
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Where was Armitage born?

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Huddersfield, Yorkshire

53
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What collection of poems Mother Any Distance from?

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“Book of Matches”

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Language Mother Any Distance: Two Examples of the semantic field of measurement:

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“metres ,centimetres”
“one-hundredth of an inch”

55
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Language Mother Any Distance: What may the semantic field of measurement be symbolic of?

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measuring the time and memories the pair have shared together

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Language Mother Any Distance: Example of a hyperbole

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“the acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors”

57
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Language Mother Any Distance: Effect of the hyperbole

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Insinuates the intimidating nature of the prospect of moving onto a new stage of life

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Language Mother Any Distance: Example of two juxtaposing holophrastic sentences

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“Anchor. Kite”

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Language Mother Any Distance: Effect of juxtaposing holophrastic sentences

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highlights the confusion he is experiencing as to his feelings towards his mother and his increasing interdependence

60
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Tone Mother Any Distance: Example of colloquial language

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“back to base”

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Tone Mother Any Distance: What contrasts the colloquial language?

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the formal address of mother

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Tone Mother Any Distance: What does the contrast in colloquial language and formal address suggest?

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That the speaker is keen to try and distance himself from his parent

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Tone Mother Any Distance: How does Armitage create a homely atmosphere at the start of the poem?

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Through the internal rhyme of the lines:
“Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.
You come to help me”

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Structure Mother Any Distance:
What is the format of this poem loosely based on?

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sonnet form

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Structure Mother Any Distance: What is the rhyming structure?

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An uneven rhyming structure

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Structure Mother Any Distance: What do the uneven rhyming structure and loose format suggest?

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the uneven relationship between the mother and the son as the son relies more on the mother

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Structure Mother Any Distance: What is the effect of the use of enjambment?

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Helps replicate the natural flow of conversation

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Structure Mother Any Distance: Example of rhyming couplet final lines

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“sky” and “fly”

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Structure Mother Any Distance: Example of enjambment:

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“towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky // to fall or fly.”

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Language Mother Any distance: Example of symbolism

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“me with the spool of tape recording length…back to base”

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Brief summary of Singh Song

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A poem about the love a shop keeper has for his wife

72
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What ethnicity are Nagara’s parents?

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Punjabi Sikh

73
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When did Nagara’s parents move to Britain?

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in the late 1950s

74
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When are where did his parents own a shop?

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In Sheffield in 1982

75
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Where did Nagara do his BA and MA

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at the Royal Holloway University

76
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What did he do after gaining his degrees?

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He became an English teacher

77
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Where is Nagar the poet Residence?

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At Radio 4 and 4 Extra

78
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What prize has Nagara won?

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The Forward Prize

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Language Sing Song: What language is used in Singh Song?

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dialect and colloquial language

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Language Singh Song: Example of colloquial language

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“di” rather than “the”

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Language Singh Song: Example of juxtaposing language

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“tiny eyes of a gun// and di tummy of a teddy”

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Language Singh Song: What affect does the juxtaposing language have?

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suggests that Singh is aware he has a multi faceted and complex wife

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Language Singh Song: examples of upbeat, childish word choice

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“red” “silver” “lemon”

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Tone Singh Song: What type of pronoun is repeated?

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Collective pronoun which emphasises the closeness of the couple

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Language Singh Song: Examples of reference to time

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“midgnight hour” “9 o’clock to 9 o’clock”

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Language Singh Song: What do the references to time suggest?

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the time pressure due to the conflict of interests

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What form is Singh Song in?

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melodic form

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Describe the pace of Singh Song?

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Stable rhythm and song-esque pace

89
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What adds to the melodic form of Singh Song?

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Refrains such as “in di worst Indian shop // on di whole Indian road”

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Brief summary of Eden Rock

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Presents Causley as separated from his parents by a stream

91
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When did Causley’s father die?

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When he was 7

92
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When did Causley’s mother die

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in 1971

93
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What did Causley do during the second world war?

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He worked as a coder for the Navy

94
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Where was Causley from?

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Cornwall

95
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Where did Causley draw inspiration from?

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Cornish folk tales

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Language Eden Rock: Example of religious allusion?

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“Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light”

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Language Eden Rock: Example of natural imagery

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“The sky whitens as if lit by three moons”

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Language Eden Rock: Context behind three suns

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represent the family triangle, mother, father and speaker which is symbolic of purity and the holy triangle

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Tone Eden Rock: How does Causley create a tone of familiarity:

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By using colloquialisms such as “HP sauce bottle” and “of genuine Irish tweed”

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Tone Eden Rock: What does the enjambment create?

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caesura

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Tone Eden Rock: Where is the enjambment prominent?

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the end section

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Tone Eden Rock: What is the effect of the enjambment?

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highlights the relaxed pace

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Structure Eden Rock: How are the stanzas structured?

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quatrains except for the final line

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Structure Eden Rock: What does the final single line symbolise?

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the gap between life and death

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Structure Eden Rock: What could the stream be referencing ?

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The river Styx

106
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Structure Eden Rock: Examples of half rhymes

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“dress” and “stress”

107
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What could the half-rhymes symbolise?

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The incomplete nature of their relationship

108
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Structure Eden Rock: What metre is used?

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iambic pentametre

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Structure Eden Rock: Effect of iambic pentameter?

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reflects the stable relationship between the writer and his parents

110
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What can Eden Rock be considered as?

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An Elegy

111
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how does Browning imply that the narrative is a stream of consciousness?

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first person narrative combines with the chronological order

112
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what form is Porphyria’s lover?

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a dramatic monologue

113
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Structure porphyria’s lover juxtaposition

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natural form contrasts the strict rhythm and ABAB rhyme pattern

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Structure Porphyria’s lover metre:

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iambic tetrameter

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example of alliteration Porphyria’s lover:

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one wish would be to

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