poem Flashcards
before you were mine
i’m ten years away from the corner you stand on- the past is very near and this version of the mother is frozen in time
porhrias lover/ relationship
too weak for her hearts endeavour- she could be cheating as too weak being a closed book could be married and goes against his personal commitment to their death
follower/family
his shoulders gloves like a fun sail stung/he guided a boat like the father guided the sun echos the smoothness of his actions sibilance
walking away/family
you walking away from home towards the school/suggests that the father doesn’t think his son is ready repetition of the title
winter swans/relationships
metaphor suggests hat the couple and hiding things and not communicating or suggest they have a strong history
mother any distance/family
you at the zero end me with the spool of tape/metaphor mother standing at 0 but the sun is getting away at the end of the tape hen the mom is holding to pull him back
neutral tones/relationships
and the sun was white as though children of god/gods punishment biblical reference personification the earth is dying like their relationship
neutral tones/
and a few leaves lay on the starving sod
sonnet 29 i think of thee/relationship
i think of thee my thoughts do twine and bud /natural imagery suggests love can be suffocating like vine wraps around bud constantly growing and developing
climbing my grandfather/family
i decided to do it free without a rope or net/brave fearless willing to take a risks adds element of changer excitement confident with grandfather/adventure
eden rock/family
they are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock/biblical reference to garden of eden time with parents were the best paradise heaven
love’s philosophy/relationship
the fountains mingle with the river/water comes in different forms all join back different paths
when we two parted
the vows are all broken/ had an affair
