material - ros barber Flashcards
octets
change is constant
enjambment
journey from past to present
disjunction
contradictions of past and present
half rhyme
childhood
previous traditions
volta
symbolic of how loss can take away regularity of life
title
relevant and important
clothing, resources
materialistic consumerism
‘my mother was the hanky queen’
not anymore - ‘was’
light hearted, humorous tone
holds her mother in a high light
‘when hanky meant a thing of cloth’
temporal deixis
substantial - lasts
‘late night garages and shops’
less value
cheap
convenient
not a priority anymore - society is becoming careless and selfish
‘but things for waving out of trains’
the past
disjunction
show emotion
saying goodbye on train - goodbye to the past
‘when hankies were material’
meaningful and important
temporal deixis
‘always up her sleeve’
temporal deixis
always prepared
idiom
substantial contribution to make to the world - hanky represents the stronger, longer-lasting fabric of the world her mother lived in, which is now gone
constant in her life
‘tucked in the wrist of every cardi’
feminine
past generations
prepared, predictable
homely and domestic
highlights how quickly her mother aged
‘embroidered with a ‘v’ for viv’
individualism
personalised
memories are personal
‘spittled and scrubbed against my face’
caring
old school
loving
hands on
cleaning a mark
harsh embarrassment caused by mother
‘dried up hankies fell in love and mated, raising little squares’
humorous tone - how mother was
jocular tone (childlike)
out of love
‘she bought her own. i never did’
caesura
change of generation
‘hankies were presents from distant aunts’
ubiquitous
equivalent of socks
‘the naffest christmas gift you’d get’
distasteful
devaluing
‘it was hankies that closed department stores’
volta
everyone used to go there
not anymore
the past is dying
‘trouser presses and homely props’
more time - valued the little things in life, slow living
generational things
‘hankies, which demanded irons, shuttered the doors of family stores when those who used to buy them died’
personification
need attention - cleaned often - society is less caring
assonance
end of an era - no longer relevant
‘greengrocer george with his dodgy foot delievering veg from his comma van’
alliteration
relationships, personal - know details
enjambement - transition into new generation
‘local crab’
more intimate
place had identity
‘lay opposite the dancing school’
spatial shift
long gone
‘step together, step together, step together’
echolalia
adds depth to memories
society is out of step
‘the annual talent show’
more global now - bgt
locality dies
‘nostalgia only makes me old’
metaphor
times change
‘the innocence i want to brood to cling onto like ten bob notes
abstract noun
protect herself from change
language from the time - doesn’t want to forget
‘killed in tv’s lassitude’
laziness
wants to be like her mum but didn’t
societal shifts and influences
metaphor
‘there’s never a hanky up my sleeve’
less hands on
less caring
unaware
guilty
headlines
power of tradition - ‘when hankies were material’
we can make our own traditions - ‘this is your material’
memories are part of our identity - ‘ embroidered with a v for viv’
differences in generations - ‘there’s never a hanky up my sleeve’
nostalgia for our childhood’ - ‘dried up hankies fell in love’
loss of intimacy which mass consumerism brings - ‘bought biscuits i would bake’
we slowly lose out traditions - ‘who used to buy them died’
the disappearance of a once ubiquitous object and what it represented - ‘tissues and uncertainty’
the world moves on but we can’t let go of the past - i miss material handkerchiefs and their soft and hidden history
