Genetics Flashcards
Who is the speaker in Genetics?
Adult reflecting on their biological heritage
What are the key events of Genetics?
Speaker focuses our attention on their hands and how their hands have characteristics inherited from their parents
Speaker talks as if the parents are separated but reflects on how they are figuratively still united in her hands
The speaker makes shape of chapel with their hands and reflects how they see their own body as evidence of their marriage
- implying their child represents something more lasting
Addresses their partner (implying) that they are marrying and thinking about a child that may result from their union
Quote for extended metaphor (metonymy) of hands representing union in Genetics?
“I know their marriage by my hands”
Quote for lyrical repetition in Genetics?
“my father’s in my fingers, but my mother’s in my palms”
- connection allows her to feel that she is still a part of their mother, father and their combined history
- poet’s perspective of projecting her connection to her family members into her physical features while also recognising similarities between their extremities
Quote for personification in Genetics
“skin’s demands for mirroring in bodies of the future”
- speaker directs her narrative to her partner
What is the structure of Genetics?
Villanelle
- 5 tercets and final quatrain
- represents additional person being added to the family of 3
Rhyme/repetition of end words suggests continuation of love/life cycle
