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Climbing My Grandfather Flashcards

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Form

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  • Present tense

* Follow narrators journey up mountain

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Why use enjambment

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•Imitates motion of climbing and emphasises climbers steady progress

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Visually effect of poem

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•Strong and solid like mountain

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Structure

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•Climbers progress up mountain from bottom to summit - higher with each line poem

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Language about mountains

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  • Extended metaphor grandfather

* Mountain show how grandson sees him- permanent,reliable part life + something impressive explore

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Language about exploration

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  • Climbing metaphor = sense adventure - reflects child’s excitement + enjoyment play grandfather
  • Child like way notices + describes shows fascination features discovered
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Language personal discovery

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•Can be read adult learning about grandfather - adult in tone + complex language

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What does the climbing metaphor show

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•Narrator actively trying to get to know grandfather as person

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Feeling and attitude:

Inquisitiveness

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  • Simple, childlike curiosity grandfather

* Interest reflected adventurous + fascination small details

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Feeling and attitude:

Effort

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•Narrator wants make effort know grandfather + be close -shown physical nature climb + exhaustion feels end

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Feeling and attitude:

Closeness

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  • Narrator affectionately describes grandfather + way smile - show comfortable each other
  • Physical closeness as climbing reflects close emotional relationship
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About

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  • Narrator imagines climbing grandfather- extended metaphor
  • Himself = climber + grandfather = mountain
  • Narrator maybe imagining/ remembering himself as child, playing w/ grandfather + observing things or getting to know
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Form:

“Decide” and “I change/ direction”

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  • Decide = present tense- reader feel like witnessing climb happen = sense adventure
  • I change = enjambment reflects change of direction
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Language exploration:

“Free”

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Adds danger and excitement to child’s game

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Language exploration:

“Without a rope or net”

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  • Confident and comfortable with grandfather + element risk

* start extended metaphor

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Language exploration:

“Earth-stained”

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  • Detail child notices
  • suggest like gardening - hint connection nature
  • possibly explain why described as mountain
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Language exploration:

“Like warm ice”

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  • oxymoron = childlike simile -simple + contradictory

* affectionate image - not cold like ice is

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Language exploration:

“Stare into his brown eyes, watch a pupil slowly open and close”

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Child like fascination simple things

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Language exploration:
“The slow pulse of his good heart”
(Last line)

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  • Physically feel heartbeat but hint grandfather steady, warm love for grandson
  • simple monosyllabic line slows pace poem = grandads heart beat
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Language exploration:

“Firm shoulder, I Rest for a while”

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“Rest for a while”

•Climbing imagery turns familiar image child sitting adults shoulder

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Language mountains:

“Dusty and cracked”

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  • Compares shoes dusty foothills mountain

* can reflect age

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Language mountains:

“Ridge of a scar”

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Ridge

•part mountain like scar part grandfather + something to explore

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Language mountains:

“(Soft and white at this altitude)”

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Grandfathers white hair like snow top mountain

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Language personal discovery:

“Direction”

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Suggest run difficulty + taking different approach

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Language personal discovery:

“Gently in the old stitches and move on”

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Sensitive and understanding- doesn’t linger over what might have been painful past experiences (stitches - cover accidents)

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Language personal discovery:

“Trying to get a grip”

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Metaphor trying to get know

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Language personal discovery: “I discover… scar”

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Progress getting to know

Scar = past didn’t know about

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Language personal discovery:

“Pupil”

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Double meaning

Eye and student learning more

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Language personal discovery:

“Gasping for breath”

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Exhaustion show difficult climb - making effort get know

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