B4 u Were MINE

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Retrospective
Nostalgia
Possessive pronoun- child ownership of parent? Reflects guilt of child in poem

Question 2

Lang

Answer 2

Metaphor n rhet q
‘The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
Met
Stamping stars from the wrong pavement
That glamorous love lasts/ where you sparkle and waltz and laugh

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

End stopping
‘Marilyn.’
‘You reckon it’s worth it.’
‘Before you were mine.’
Enjamb love is continuous but juxtaposed w glamour: ‘that glamorous love lasts/ where you sparkle…’
Caesura ‘before I was born. That glamorous’

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

4 equal stanzas steady passage of time
Circular mother on pavement in first and last but in first narrator absent
Strenuous choice but love overcome