Heaney - In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge

Question 1

Gist

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Childhood Heaney walks past a war memorial of Francis Ledwidge. Heaney unites Ireland. Heaney identifies with Ledwidge.
Ledwidge is a rural country boy who has been drawn into violence.

Question 2

Themes present

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identity 
community
violence
nature
invasion
death
time
experience
war
religion
reality

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Heaney poems to compare

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Question 4

Context

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Francis Ledwidge killed during Battle at Ypres in 1917

Question 5

Lit Crit

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‘his death is emblematic of Heaney’s attempt to comprehend self division’ - Haffenden

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Metaphor

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Personification

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Sounds of words

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Figurative/symbolic language

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Types of imagery

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Word connotations

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Etymology

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Word play, patterns, clusters

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Juxtaposition, oxymoron, contrasts

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Paradox

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Question 16

Reader response

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Question 17

Poem open and close

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Question 18

Perspectives X

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complex use of time ‘nineteen forty six or seven, nineteen seventeen’ - travelling from the present to Heaney’s childhood to WW1 creates historical depth and emotional intensity as Heaney reinforces the reality of death and violence.

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Tone

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Type of stanzas

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Line lengths and their contrasts

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Caesura/enjambement

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Rhyme/Rhythm/where it breaks down

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Stressed/unstressed syllables

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Question 25

Masculine and feminine rhyme

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Question 26

Form

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