Genetics Flashcards

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Form

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5 tercets and a quatrain, specific rhyme scheme

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How many lines

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19 build in Tone and intensity, each stanza revise initial idea

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3
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Repetition of the words

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‘Palms’ ‘hands’

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Structure

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Large gap between consecutive rhymes

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5
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‘Hands palms’ ‘hands palms’

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Repetition

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Title

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Ironically not just your genetics that your parents influence

  • 3 syllables
  • positive, nostalgic, certain
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First line of poem

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Imagery of two joined hands can be separated, individuals fingers, palms hard to seperate

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8
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Their hands are physically

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Similar, connotation of marriage

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9
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‘Palms’ first line

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Literally but metaphorically represent unity of parents

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10
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‘Pleasure’

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Hyphen used as reflective pause, rhythm

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11
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‘Made’

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Sculpted, moulded

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12
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‘Seperate hemispheres’

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Imagery of two joined hands being separated, individuals fingers and palms hard to separate

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13
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‘Repelled to separate lands’

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Negative, magnetic repel and attract parents separation

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14
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‘But friends’

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Enjambment, lack of clarity

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15
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‘By my fingers’

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Visualise marriage in church

- reflectivity, nostalgia, rose tinted view

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16
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‘Quarry for their image by a river’

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Stagnant, sounds similar to quarrel, allows us to question if speaker has been effected by parents separation

17
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‘My body’ is their marriage register

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Whole body

  • marriage and separation divorce only implied, marriage is intended
  • reflects that this is forever in her genetics
18
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‘I’ll bequeath’

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Total surrender, traditional conventions of marriage

19
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‘Steeple stands’

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Dedicated to childhood nursery rhyme

20
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‘Parents make us by our hands’

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Bigger picture, important that there is a permanent union, children that what may happen in the future of their own relationship

21
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Identity is not just

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Within generations but also our own personal relationships both romantically with children and parents
- darker undertone

22
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The narrator is trying to come to

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Terms with the diverse

23
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‘So take me with you’

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In light of separation

- hope

24
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‘Reciting psalms’

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Psalms sand like palms religious, marriage

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‘Genetics’
One word, ambiguous, scientific, factual evidence of how people are made up
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Last stanza
Suggestive of her future children, cyclical aspect to poem
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Union
There is a permanent union within them through their children
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Use of end stopped lines
Adds a rhythmic effect