before you were mine

Question 1

what is the form?

Answer 1

a love poem
autobiographical poem
her way of showing her appreciation for her mother

Question 2

structure

Answer 2

• quantains
• regular form, like photo album
• celebrates how regular her love is
• no ryhme scheme > represents freedom of her mother

Question 3

what are laugh and shreik an example of?

Answer 3

playful verbs
loss of control
images of carefree life

Question 4

what does polka dot represent?

Answer 4

vibrancy, refers to marilyn monroe

Question 5

what does her references to marilyn monroe show?

Answer 5

minor sentence. celebration of her glamour and tone

Question 6

‘thousand eyes’

Answer 6

metaphor of glitter ball, glamour of the room

the idea of being watched by boys/men

Question 7

what does the caesura represent>

Answer 7

her looking back on the past and something thats already happened

Question 8

‘glamourous’

Answer 8

links back to the idea of marilyn monroe

acknowledgement of her beauty

Question 9

‘clear as scent’

Answer 9

mixture of sense

Question 10

‘high heeled red shoes’

Answer 10

mothers vibrancy

Question 11

‘small bites on your neck’

Answer 11

suggests passion

Question 12

‘ghost clatters’

Answer 12

onomatopoeia

Question 13

what are the concepts?

Answer 13

sacrifice
admiration
past