AO2 Flashcards
(12 cards)
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
