Catrin Flashcards
1
Q
Bringing up from the heart’s pool that old rope, tightening about my life
A
- life : devotion and commitment
- tightening : conflict, control, power
- pool : endless, insurmountable
- rope : tie/inseparable/permanence
2
Q
Neither won nor lost the battle
A
- Compromise : ampass and stalemate
- Reluctance to let go
- Jump in time from last stanza : still views daughter as her little baby, speed of growing up and lost time
3
Q
Red rope of love, which we both fought over.
A
- Bond
- Love
- Symbolic of umbilical cord
- Metaphorical tug of war
- Raw
- caesura mirrors, shifting, conflicting moments and emphasises the impact of motherhood
4
Q
Rosy defiant glare
A
- Conflict between words, care versus anger
- Oxymoronic adult adjectives with child like features
- Red imagery shows innocence and endearment
5
Q
The whole poem contains enjambment
A
- feelings cannot be contained, they are overwhelming and ineffable
- Lack of control/powerlessness of motherhood
- Inevitability of her child growing up
- Innate instinctive, natural feelings
- Not following the norms of poetry
6
Q
Use of free verse
A
- unexpectedness of motherhood
- Unique experiences
- Unpredictability
7
Q
As you ask may you skate in the dark
A
- Independence
- Gaining distance
- Relinquishing control
- Physically out of sight
- Venturing into the unknown
