Material Flashcards
Rhyme scheme
All the way through, types when rhyme is apparent
- ABCB rhyme scheme, quatrain
- iambic tetrameter, 4 beats in line
Title
Convey key ideas, similarity of the words
- material and maternal signifies bond between mother and daughter
- strong like a piece of cloth
‘Hanky queen’
Admiration in a sort of regal sense
- particular type of motherhood
‘When hanky meant a thing of cloth’
Past is more solid and better organised
‘Not paper tissues’
Bitter, disappointment in the present
‘Waving out of trains’
Stereotypes, sweet, rose tinted glasses
- caring image of grief
- hankies associated with happiness and sadness
‘Cardi’
Natural
‘Embarrassment of lace’
SpEaker embarrassed of overprotective mother
‘Where dried up hankies fell in love’
Metaphor for mother, farm produces food like the mother
‘Little squares’
Childhood imagination
- light hearted
‘Ponce’
Gay, homophobic, strong sense of the past
‘Naffest’
Old fashioned, colloquial
- balanced clauses
- her mother symbolises the past, regretful, sorrow filled tone
‘Closed’
Personification of hankies
‘Props’
Theatre object
- negative, our society now is nothing without the people who engage with it
What is the difference about the 6th stanza
Isn’t end stopped
- deliberately long and hard to work out
‘Friendly butcher’
Close knit, evryone knows each other
- world which has been lost
‘Painted talons’
Childlike, scary
- unusual to wear nail polish
‘Step togeth’
Understand criticism
‘Little fears’
Smiling at maternal love
‘Makes me old.’
End stopped
- change of tone
‘TV’s lassitude’
Critiquing children to make them less innocent, motherly guilt she’s not like her mother
‘Brood’
Detached emotionally
‘Noses strangers clean’
Critique of her only experience
- all about the kids
Last stanza
Hyperbole, shocking
Revelation
The narrator is detached from her children, she is selfish
