Catrin

Question 1

I can remember you, child

Answer 1

Anaphora creates reminiscent, nostalgic tone of thinking back on her child

Question 2

hot, white

Answer 2

Purity, tranquillity, new beginnings, innocence, blank canvas
OR - clinical, sterile, sanitary, uncomfortable, monotonous

Question 3

tight / Red rope of love

Answer 3

Umbilical cord acts as a metaphor for love.
Red mirrors blood, connoting to rawness, passion, humanity, the intensity of the relationship between mother and daughter

Question 4

disinfected

Answer 4

Sterility of the room before has been tainted, contaminated, by the new beginning

Question 5

wild, tender

Answer 5

Oxymoronic nature of wild VS natural, maternal instincts to nurture and tenderly treat your child

Question 6

our struggle to become
Separate.

Answer 6

Plural pronoun highlights how they are both bonded, and attached; the woman who is now a mother, is not alone / the bond cannot be broken

Question 7

rosy,
Defiant glare

Answer 7

Contrasting imagery shows love for the woman that her child is becoming, and immense respect for the way Catrin conducts herself

Question 8

straight, strong, long
Brown hair

Answer 8

Sees herself in her child in a nostalgic reminiscent manner

Question 9

heart’s pool

Answer 9

Inescapable, boundless extent of love

Question 10

Tightening about my life,

Answer 10

Inevitability of conflict, but also the inescapability of the unconditional love

Question 11

for one more hour.

Answer 11

Temporal marker highlights how neither of them are immortal, and their lives won’t be forever to appreciate and love their children for.
Advocates for parents to love their children, in a deeply sentimental love letter to her child, and the bond between parents and children as a whole.