genetics - sinead morrissey Flashcards
villanelle
child obsessed with parents
love
half rhyme
half of each parent make up the child
tercets
her, mum and dad
enjambment
trying to force them back together and this idea of them always being connected
caesura
the parents are clearly broken
shows disantce
title
dna - characteristics
biology - calculated way
‘my father’s in my fingers, but my mother’s in my hands’
equal parts of parents
who we are
half rhyme
similar but different - caused their divorce
possessive pronouns - closeness with parents
product of their love
‘i lift them up and look at them with pleasure’
happy tone
sees her parents in her
looks up to her parents - on a pedestal
‘i know my parents made me by my hands’
no doubt
connection
conclusive
‘they may have been repelled to separate lands’
divorce - physically/emotionally
incompatible
she seems to find emotional satisfaction in the idea of their physical union remaining still within her
allowing
‘but in me they touch where fingers link to palms’
disjunction - reassurance
reminder of their togetherness
they live on inside her - feels their connection
‘quarry for their image by a river’
searching - friends can’t remember
friends feel awkward picking sides
river’s reflection suggests an illusion and also passing time
‘at least i know their marriage by my hands’
solidity
proof they were together
their history is inside her
’ i shape a chapel where a steeple stands’
regressing back to childhood
she reserves her hands to show the interlocking fingers she sees the characteristics that represent her parents
emphasizes that at matter what age there will still be some impact due to this separation.
allows for a sense of sympathy to be created, we are made to acknowledge the impact which its had
trying to reconcile her with her hands
‘demure before a priest reciting psalms’
prayers
polite and respectful
