Lucozade - Key Quotes Flashcards
“My mum is on a high bed next to sad chrysanthemums”
This suggests that she is high up. It can be read how she looks up to her mother and respects her.
This can also be seen as there being distance between her and her mother, she may lose her.
“I am scared my mum is going to die”
Confessional - very truthful and honest. An open and honest statement.
“her eyes go back in her head”
There is the idea of her energy fading - image of death.
“orange nostalgia”
Metaphor - Nostalgia usually has positive connotations, but she doesn’t like it and wants it taken away. She doesn’t want to look back in the past.
“a swarm of eyes”
Metaphor - She is being stared at by lots of doctors/nurses.
“Don’t bring magazines, too much about size”
Dieting. The mother is wasting away and has list a lot of weight so this topic does not sit well with her.
“where’s the big brandy, the generous gin, the bloody mary”
illiterations - celebratory foods, self - indulgent, the mother doesn’t want to be boring. Unconventional and doesn’t follow the crowd.
“Tell your father to bring a luxury”
She wants a treat.
“Grapes have no imagination”
Personification/ Transferred epithet. The people who bring grapes are boring.
“I leave, bags full, Lucozade, grapes, oranges,/sad chrysanthemums under my arms”
repeat
“weighted down”
She is carrying the weight of responsibility. Taking on this challenge. Underlying sadness.
“My mother, on her high hospital bed, waves back”
Almost repetition of line one. But now optimistic. The fact she has waved back gives a sense that her energy has returned.
“Her face is light and radiant”
Unburdened and optimistic.
“She is beautiful”
Revelation. Although the speaker is noticing it for the first time. Connotations with heaven and a state of grace.
“Next to her the empty table is divine”
Transferred epithet - The mother is divine, angelic connotations, greater than mortal.
