English grammar Flashcards
Digging by seamus heaney
Examples of alliteration
Gravelly ground
The repetition of consonants
Digging by seamus heaney
“Comes up 20 years away”
He is so practiced at what he is doing that the years fall off him
Digging by seamus heaney
Examples of assonance and alliteration
Edge deep
Digging by seamus heaney
Paragraph 5
Change of tone
Digging by seamus heaney
Stanza 6
Comparison between neat and sloppy
Digging by seamus heaney
Examples of similes
Snug as a gun
Digging by seamus heaney
Stanza 7
But I have no spade to follow men like them
Here he is looking up to his family
Digging by seamus heaney
Stanza 8
Between my finger and my phone the what pen rests i’ll dig with it. Here the pen changes from being a gun to a spade he’s going to use it to produce crops of poetry and he has dug through memories of his family. It changes from violence to growth
Seamus Heaney will dig in his own way but that doesn’t mean he won’t forget the old way
The use of digging
Looking down and back
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“But not yet”
tone change
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Things are getting ready
Stars moths and rinds around fruit are waiting, postponed
But not yet
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Things are getting ready to happen out of sight
Enjambment
Run on lines
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After “this moment “
Things happen
E.g. Stars rise
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Comparison
To Demeter and Persephone
When your child is in her arms everything flourishes the mothers anxiety is relieved
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A neighbourhood
Opposite of nomadic
Demeter ended the nomadic lifestyle
