material - ros barber Flashcards

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octets

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change is constant

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enjambment

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journey from past to present

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3
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disjunction

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contradictions of past and present

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4
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half rhyme

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childhood

previous traditions

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5
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volta

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symbolic of how loss can take away regularity of life

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title

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relevant and important

clothing, resources

materialistic consumerism

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‘my mother was the hanky queen’

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not anymore - ‘was’

light hearted, humorous tone

holds her mother in a high light

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‘when hanky meant a thing of cloth’

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temporal deixis

substantial - lasts

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‘late night garages and shops’

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less value

cheap

convenient

not a priority anymore - society is becoming careless and selfish

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‘but things for waving out of trains’

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the past

disjunction

show emotion

saying goodbye on train - goodbye to the past

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‘when hankies were material’

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meaningful and important

temporal deixis

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‘always up her sleeve’

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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

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‘tucked in the wrist of every cardi’

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feminine

past generations

prepared, predictable

homely and domestic

highlights how quickly her mother aged

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‘embroidered with a ‘v’ for viv’

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individualism

personalised

memories are personal

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‘spittled and scrubbed against my face’

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caring

old school

loving

hands on

cleaning a mark

harsh embarrassment caused by mother

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‘dried up hankies fell in love and mated, raising little squares’

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humorous tone - how mother was

jocular tone (childlike)

out of love

17
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‘she bought her own. i never did’

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caesura

change of generation

18
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‘hankies were presents from distant aunts’

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ubiquitous

equivalent of socks

19
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‘the naffest christmas gift you’d get’

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distasteful

devaluing

20
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‘it was hankies that closed department stores’

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volta

everyone used to go there

not anymore

the past is dying

21
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‘trouser presses and homely props’

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more time - valued the little things in life, slow living

generational things

22
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‘hankies, which demanded irons, shuttered the doors of family stores when those who used to buy them died’

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personification

need attention - cleaned often - society is less caring

assonance

end of an era - no longer relevant

23
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‘greengrocer george with his dodgy foot delievering veg from his comma van’

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alliteration

relationships, personal - know details

enjambement - transition into new generation

24
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‘local crab’

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more intimate

place had identity

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'lay opposite the dancing school'
spatial shift long gone
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'step together, step together, step together'
echolalia adds depth to memories society is out of step
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'the annual talent show'
more global now - bgt locality dies
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'nostalgia only makes me old'
metaphor times change
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'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
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'killed in tv's lassitude'
laziness wants to be like her mum but didn't societal shifts and influences metaphor
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'there's never a hanky up my sleeve'
less hands on less caring unaware guilty
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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