Cold Knap Lake Flashcards
Context on Gillian clarke
Writes about nature and observations
Questions her memory
True story
Wonders what influence the change in her memory
What’s strange about the hero
It is a women and the men are of at war.
When the girl is saved the atmosphere stays intense
What does the speaker focus on
The atmosphere
The crowd and their behaviour is given in the most detail compared to the events
What she remembered the most must have made an impression on the speaker
Uses haunting metaphors for her memory
Is their a rhyme scheme
No rhyme scheme or structure as the event is not normal and shocking
What happens when the girl survives
She is beat for it, out of fear out of bad parenting , abuse
Speaker remembers this clearly
Juxtaposing parents enhances the event
How is childhood presented
Can be amazing or dangerous
Travelling through murky water
Unclear
How does she show the memory is unclear
Uses metaphorical language comparing it to the lake
Quote showing the girl
“Dressed in waters long green silk she lay for dead”
Quote showing the heroine
“Wartime cotton frock soaked”
Quote showing the crowd
“The crowd stood silent, drawn by the dread of it”
Quote showing she was beaten
“Thrashed for almost drowning “
Quote showing a rhetorical question
“Was I there?”
Quote showing her memory
“Troubled surface something else shadowy under”
