Inheritance Flashcards
What is the significance of the poem starting with RS Thomas?
It shows the importance of Welsh identity to Sheers.
What is the significance of the poem starting with RS Thomas?
It shows the importance of Welsh identity to Sheers.
What is interesting about Sheers’ fathers contributions?
His father’s contributions here are weaknesses, a ‘stammer’ and ‘a tired blink’.
What is interesting about Sheers’ mothers contributions?
They are positive attributes; the blue eyes, introspection and his compulsion to write.
What is the significance of things from the natural world, especially ‘Skirrid Hill’ itself often being referred to by female pronouns?
This creates the indication that nature and its strength are a female quality, whereas the male character is a weaker and more destructive force.
What corresponds to the stereotypical male role?
Blacksmith imagery from the ‘blue ore’ through to the ‘red hot core’. It is strange that this image is not begun until his father is out of the way though – almost as if it is inappropriate to attribute this archetypal male metaphor in the same stanza as describing his father.
What sense do we get of Sheers and horses in this poem?
That Sheers grew up admiring and loving the horse in the stable, and so may impact upon the perceived cruelty done to it in the previous poem.
What is interesting about Sheers’ fathers contributions?
His father’s contributions here are weaknesses, a ‘stammer’ and ‘a tired blink’.
What is interesting about Sheers’ mothers contributions?
They are positive attributes; the blue eyes, introspection and his compulsion to write.
What is the significance of things from the natural world, especially ‘Skirrid Hill’ itself often being referred to by female pronouns?
This creates the indication that nature and its strength are a female quality, whereas the male character is a weaker and more destructive force.
What corresponds to the stereotypical male role?
Blacksmith imagery from the ‘blue ore’ through to the ‘red hot core’. It is strange that this image is not begun until his father is out of the way though – almost as if it is inappropriate to attribute this archetypal male metaphor in the same stanza as describing his father.
What sense do we get of Sheers and horses in this poem?
That Sheers grew up admiring and loving the horse in the stable, and so may impact upon the perceived cruelty done to it in the previous poem.
