Poem at Thirty-Nine Flashcards
‘How I miss my father.’
This end stop creates an emotional tine and immediately shows how she mourn for her father more and more as shown by the refrain.
What do the enjambments of the first stanza show
These show her memories flowing out more and more
What is the Semantic Field in the second Stanza
Money shows how he was financially poor and taught her so that she could avoid this when she grows up.
‘learned to see bits of paper…’
This can be a metaphor to shows that the speaker wants to be financially free or it could suggest that she wants to be an author and write.
‘telling the truth did not always mean a beating’
This shows how her father taught her good morals that she needed to be successful in life.
‘before the end.’
Euphemism for her father’s death as she is unable to come into terms of her father’s death.
‘How I miss my father!’
This exclamatory sentence is a repeated refrain and the repetition of this shows even more how much she misses him as she thinks more about her father
‘He cooked like a person dancing’
This simile shows how joyful her father was.
‘craved the voluptuous sharing’
This also shows how caring her father was towards others despite the financial difficulty he was in.
‘look and cook’
Assonance shows how impactful her dad was to her.
‘seasoning none of my life the same way twice’
This metaphor shows how important her father is and shows that she escaped the life her father wants her to nit go through.
‘he would have grown to admire’
This shows how the poet craves her Dad’s approval as she listened to what he told her to do.
What is the poem written in…
Free verse to show how she is expressing her emotions freely.
