AO2 Flashcards
What tense is it written in
1st person singular
What is done with the time scales of the poems
Interweaves the time scales
What is clear throughout
There’s a semantic field of death - introduced immediately - “grave”
Outline pace of the poem
Choppy - full of hard consonants - stanza 2 & 3
Annotate “tested out voices”
Physically shouting and playing - also figuratively testing out their boundaries of life and being shaped as people
What is the second semantic field of
Growing up
Annotate “through the windscreen of your youth”
Metaphor - had to grow up fast when his father was found dead
What makes the reader stop and think
Caesura - makes them question what is to come (-)
What is clear in the penultimate stanza
Semantic field of movement despite death - e.g. Personified trees
Outline the relevance of the list of cars
Recited like a list of names on a tomb stone
Annotate the end of the poem
Resolution achieved - still young boy at heart - wants to find his place/way home - gets lost in childhood memories
What is significant about the final line
The meandering boy is synonymous with the adult he became - seeking both meaning and direction in life
