Mrs Midas 10 Marker: Reflecting On The Past Flashcards
“The train this slow evening”
Duffy has time to reflect and look back at her past with her mother on the train journey.
“He remembers the cries of this man’s wife”
This memory has a big impact on the photographer. He reflects on this memory of while developing a photo of the man injured or killed because of the war.
“As the miles rushed back to the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live any more”
Duffy reflects on her old home, country and what she has lost as she migrates to a new country.
“Browsing for the right sky”
Personification of train has connotations of taking your time. Duffy has time to think and reflect on her past.
“Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right space?”
Question Duffy tries to answer but is unable to. She is unsure if she has lost her original identity by moving countries and trying to fit in there and reflects on this.
“Rural England”
Photography reflects back on his home country, which contrasts heavily with the current country at war.
