Catrin

Question 1

Unconditional love between who?

Answer 1

Mother and daughter.

Question 2

Passage of time?

Answer 2

From baby to teenager.

Question 3

What language techniques are evident throughout the play?

Answer 3

Alliteration.
Assonance.
Imagery.

Question 4

What structure techniques are evident throughout the play?

Answer 4

Enjambment.
Two separate stanzas.
Fractured lines.

Question 5

What does the alliteration and assonance do?

Answer 5

Mimic sounds of giving birth, intensifying conflict.

Question 6

What do the two separate stanzas mean?

Answer 6

Past and present.

Baby to teenager.

Question 7

What does the title ‘Catrin’ suggest?

Answer 7

Addressed to a child but its universal as its not repeate throughout the play.

Question 8

What kind of language is used?

Answer 8

Simple neutral language.

Question 9

What does the simple neutral language show?

Answer 9

The simplicity of the bond between mother and daughter.

Question 10

What is the imagery of?

Answer 10

Birth.
Pain.
Growing up.

Question 11

What does the poem contrast with?

Answer 11

The idea that people are going about there everyday business to then one of the most important moments of her life.

Question 12

The phrase ‘i’…

Answer 12

Personal.
Reflective.
Past tense.

Question 13

‘hot, white room’…

Answer 13

Sterial hospital room.

Question 14

‘The people and cars taking turn at the traffic lights’…

Answer 14

Juxtaposes this image with the most important event in life.

Question 15

‘I can remember you’…

Answer 15

Address to her child.

Question 16

‘First fierce’…

Answer 16

Alliteration highlights the conflict.

Question 17

‘The tight red rope of love which we both fought over’…

Answer 17

Metaphor.
Umbilical cord
Passion.
Love.
Bond.

Question 18

‘Fought over’…

Answer 18

Metaphorical and physical struggle.

Fight is on going

Question 19

‘I wrote all over the walls with my words’…

Answer 19

Metaphor to highlight her screams and shouts.

Question 20

‘Wild, tender circles’…

Answer 20

Juxtaposition of emotions and experiences of child birth.

Question 21

‘Of our struggle to become separate’…

Answer 21

Enjambment.

Physically separates the lines.

Question 22

‘We wanted, we shouted, to be two, to be ourselves’…

Answer 22

Much like mother and teenager.

Question 23

After the 1st stanza, how many years does the poem jump to?

Answer 23

14 years later.

Baby to teen

Question 24

‘Glass tank’…

Answer 24

Metaphor for cot.

Question 25

caesura =

Answer 25

Definite pause.

Question 26

‘Still i am fighting you off’…

Answer 26

Conflict is on going.

Question 27

‘Straight strong long’…

Answer 27

Alliteration.

Listing highlights how she has grown and become independent.

Question 28

‘Heart’s pool that old rope’…

Answer 28

Metaphor for unbreakable bond.

Unconditional love.

Question 29

‘Love and conflict’…

Answer 29

Juxtaposed emotions.

Question 30

‘In the dark, for one more hour’…

Answer 30

Metaphor.

‘In the dark’ with parenting.

Question 31

What kind of conflict is it?

Answer 31

Growing up tension and conflict.

Question 32

What other poems does this link with?

Answer 32

Poppies.
What were they like?
Extract from the Prelude.

Question 33

Themes?

Answer 33

Memories.
Growth.
Love.