Family Poems Flashcards
What is the structure of ‘Climbing my grandfather’?
Structure:
Irregular (nothing rhymes)= reflects the climb and the journey to getting to know grandad
One single unbroken stanza
Void of rhyming scheme= mirrors normal conversation
What is the structure of ‘Before You Were Mine’?
Structure:
Form= four equal regular stanzas= steady passage of time and change it brings
Cyclical structure= emphasis the change the authors birth has brought
What is the structure of ‘Walking Away’?
Structure:
5 line irregular stanzas= feelings are irregular to the father
Alternate rhyming scheme (A,C,E)= represents difference in the father and son (separation the father wants it to stay the same) direct address to son= personal
What structure is ‘Mother Any Distance’?
Loosely sonnet form= uncertainty of his emotions
Uneven rhyming structure= reflects poets nerves and how he has outgrown his mother
Enjambment= replicates casual talking
Irregular= separation and unfamiliar experiences
What is the structure of ‘Eden Rock’?
Regular structure (10 syllables in each line iambic pentameter )= stable balanced family relationship
Fixed quatrain= shows calmness and familiarity of Eden Rock
What is the structure of ‘Follower’?
Regular form (mostly iambic pentameter)
Neat structure= mimics precision of ploughing the field
Cyclical structure= strong paternal bond
Each stanza contains one perfect rhyme and one slant rhyme= speaker will never live up to his father
Climbing my Grandfather Quotations?
‘Like warm ice’
‘Watching clouds and birds circle’
‘Smiling mouth’
‘Earth stained hands’
‘I stare into his brown eyes, watching a pupil slowly open and close’
Before You Were Mine Quotations?
‘I’m ten years form the corner you laugh on’
‘Your polka dot dress blowing around your legs. Marilyn.’
‘High heeled red shoes. Relics’
‘Fizzy, movie tomorrows’
‘Stamping stars’
‘The years before my loud, possessive yell were the best ones eh?’
‘That glamorous love lasts where you sparkle and waltz and laugh’
Eden Rock Quotations?
‘They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock’
‘same suit of genuine Irish tweed’
‘Her hair. The colour of wheat’
‘The sky whitens as if lite by three suns’
‘Crossing is not as hard as you may think’
Walking Away Quotations?
‘Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit’
‘Gnaws at my mind still’
‘Half-fledged thing set free into the wilderness’
‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
‘How selfhood begins with a walking away and love is proved in the letting go’
Mother Any Distance Quotations?
‘You come to help me measure’
‘Unreeling years between us’
‘Acres of wall’
‘You at the zero end’
‘Anchor. Kite’
‘Reporting metres make to base’
‘Spacewalk through empty bedrooms’
‘Pinch the last hundredth of an inch’
‘Opens on an endless sky to fall or fly’
Follower Quotations?
‘His shoulders globed like a full sail strung’
‘An expert’
‘Mapping the furrow exactly’
‘Sometimes he rode me on his back’
‘All I ever did was follow’
‘It is my father stumbling behind me and will not go away’
