Before You were Mine Flashcards
when was Before You Were Mine written?
1993
who wrote BYWM?
Carol Ann Duffy
Beggining of poem
” I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on”
end of poem
” you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine”
when was she born?
1955
clear …
this shows
clear as scent
syntheasthia seound and smell come together though Duffy shows she is sure whether this is a real memory or fictional
S A T P
shriek at the pavement.
Y P-D D B R Y L. M.
Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.
the realization that her mum had a life when she was not born T T O M D O
The thought of me doesn’t occur
B W T T E, T F, M T
what types of verbs
ballroom with the thousand eyes, the fizzing, movie tomorrows
jovial vers
T D A O M L , P Y W T B O , E ?
The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
m h i t h-h r s, r,
my hands in the high-heeled red shoes,relics,
w s b o y n , s ?
what does it reverse?
whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?
reverses the roles from child to parent
f M, s s f t w p.
from Mass, stamping stars from the wrong pavement.
I w t b g w i P ,
I want the bold girl winking in Portobello,
what was this a collection of
caled Mean Time
What is the summary of the poem?
It shows the sacrifices parents have to make for their children and is arguing that there is more to mothers and women than childhood
explores context of
the theme of suppression and female restriction in the mid 1900s
what tone is used?
a personal ad intimate tone
what could the simple four stanza structure represent linking to context?
structured like a photo album, flicking through the pictures
why does the poem use a lot of caseaura
to make it more conversational and suggests he bond between Duffy and her mother .
