Autobiography Flashcards
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Language?
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- Title= whole life revolved round mothers death
- initial colours bright, once mother dies becomes bleak and colourless
- anaphora 6+7th stanzas= enhances loneliness
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Form?
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Writer reflecting on childhood
•more sympathetic
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Imagery?
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- “collar…”= childish incompetence of fathers role as vicar, fear of supernatural religion
- “lamp…dark”= mother dying ruined the light in his life
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Rhyme scheme?
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- rhyming couplets= nursery rhyme, intimacy with mother+her death
- 8th stanza= rhyme scheme broken, oxymoronic between “sun” and “alone”
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Tone?
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- 4th stanza= tone changes to nightmarish without mother
* “alone” last word of stanza= isolated tone
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Structure?
Sounds?
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- repetition between each stanza= haunting void of mothers loss, ends poem but doesn’t start
- guttural sounds once mother dies= harsh and grating
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Meaning?
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Child was never close with father, mother died aged 5.
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Links?
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•PIANO= strong attachment to mother
