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,
