out of the bag - seamus heaney Flashcards
1
Q
‘all of us came in doctor kerlin’s bag’
A
where the baby comes from in the child’s head
imagination children have
2
Q
‘disappear… reappear’
A
magic process
3
Q
‘nosy, rosy, big, soft hands’
A
internal rhyme
powerful - god like
comforting
4
Q
’ the colour of a spaniel’s inside lug’
A
childlike - only colour it can compare to
5
Q
‘wind the instruments’
A
mirrors becoming hypnotised
6
Q
‘darken the door and leave’
A
metaphorically big figure
position of power
7
Q
‘stooping up to the room again, a whiff of disinfectant’
A
authority
temporal deixis - getting older - losing imagination
sensory langauge
8
Q
‘waistcoat satin and highlights on the forceps’
A
semantic field of medicine
clinical language
9
Q
‘all thanks denied’
A
so powerful
nothing fazes him
