effects

Question 1

structure

Answer 1

• 2 sentences = outpouring of emotions
• mimics a eulogy praising someone who has died
• irregular rhyme reflects the tension in the relationship however rhyming couplet at the end presents a sense of closure
• 2 endstops = 2 lives of speaker has lost - one of his mothers one of his fathers = loss of pillars of supra

Question 2

‘from chopping slicing from the knives that lay in wait in bowls of washing up’

Answer 2

• definitive of domesticity and a house wife
• battlescars of family life - self sacrifice
• knife waiting = sinister undertones hidden conflicts under the surface

Question 3

’ I held her hand’

‘on the hand I held’

Answer 3

• removal of identity and humanity
• shift from her to the - loveless/lifeless
• acceptance of death and detachment
• she isn’t holding his hand, one way relationship as poem progresses - transitionary

Question 4

‘blinked’ ‘poured’ ‘gulped’ ‘stared’

Answer 4

active verbs exacerbate the chores of life - decline of health

contrasts to previous ‘chopping’ ‘slicing’ - present tens vs past

Question 5

‘her watch’ … ‘a thick rubber band’

Answer 5

identity - anonymous - similar to everyone else completely dehumanised.