Out Of The Bag Flashcards

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Title

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Use of idioms, theme of secrets

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2
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‘All of use came in Doctor Kerlin’s bag’

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Power, God like, myth, secrecy

- childhood experiences on siblings being born

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3
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What don’t we hear about?

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The mother 
- power class gender
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4
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Long lists of

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Adjectives without commas - sense of overwhelming

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5
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Enjambment

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Gives even simpler phrases a more disorienting slant

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6
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Frequent use of metaphor and simile

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Trying to explain world around him (repetition of figurative language throughout part one)
- Morris comparisons

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7
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Reminiscing

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In extreme detail

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8
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Langurs switches between

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Highly complex and simple

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9
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How many distinct sections?

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Four

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10
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What language is used in the first three stanzas of part 2?

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‘Academic’ language

- meter and rhythm is more constant

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11
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First and last lines of each stanza are in

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Iambic pentameter

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12
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As part 2 continues the

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Rhythm and meter becomes less formalised just as the language and ideas become more mythological and conceptual

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13
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Frequent enjambment

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Adds to slightly disorientating feel of complex language - end stopped lines

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14
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Use of iambic pentameter and

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Trochaic tretameter

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15
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Part one setting

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Strong sense of time and place ‘scullery basin’

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16
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Setting in prt one echoed in part 4

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‘Sheets out on for the doctor’ ‘the new wee baby’

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17
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Heaney writes with his

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Own voice in the poem

18
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Comparison between doctor jerking and hygeia

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‘Darken the door and leave’

‘The undarkening door’

19
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Sound

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Assonance, consonance, alliteration, sibilance and internal rhyme
‘Nosy rosy’ ‘unsibbed, unwinding’

20
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Part 2 sound quotes

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Technical and ritual

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Part three sound

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‘Midday, mid - mat’

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Part 4 sound

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‘Usual and useful’

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Key themes

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Secrecy, new life, childhood, religion, mythologies, owner dynamics, healing, origins

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What does the poem deal with?

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How Heaney’s childhood misconceptions as to where he and his siblings came from led to him questioning his human origins in the philosophical sense throughout the rest of his life

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Heaney’s answer
Truth is not found in complex myths and shrines but in the ordinary
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Doctor Kerlins power
Link to education | - religion secrecy
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Limited power of the
Poet
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Powerlessness if the reader
Paradox that the poet nor the reader has power
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Physical power
Third and second sections
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Decisive power of doctor
Energetic and action versus Heaney’s helplessness
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Heaney’s mother’s
No introduction of name or any information about her
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Original sense of powerlessness
Ultimate shift in final stanza
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Healing
Religion as a method of healing | - contrast with focus of technical and scientific medicines of Kerlin
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Physical barriers
‘Locked room’ ‘steamed up glass’
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Poignancy of
Taboo leading to mother not being able to claim ‘triumph’ for herself
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Ironically his physical origins are
‘Standing the passage of time’ whereas Epidaurus is an archaeological site
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‘Hallucination’
Similar to vision of end of part one
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‘Hygeia’
Reference to ‘incubato’ dream
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‘Incubating for real’
Sleeps when ephiphany occurs realisation
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Power shift at the end
Finally hearing the mother sleep - hear her voice assume who he is talking about
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Who ends up having the power?
The mother she is active literally in the birth and in other terms