Poetry - Mocks Flashcards
Mother, any distance V Walking away
Independence
Family love Similarly it’s both the children that initiate the
Distance distance between the parents.
Struggle of parents
“Unreeling // years between us. Anchor. Kite” - MAD
“Like a satellite// wrenched from its orbit go drifting away.” WA
Mother, any distance V Walking away
Both of their children is trying to gain some distance/ independence from their parents
“Half-fledged thing set free// into a wilderness. ” - WA
Negative. The after doesn’t believe the son isn’t ready. Bird metaphor
“Where something has to give… your fingertips still pinch.” - MAD
The mother isn’t ready as well but the auxiliary verb “has” shows inevitably.
Mother, any distance V Walking away
The mother sees its inevitable for him to do this
Father doesn’t want to see the painful process of the son growing up
“…I reach toward a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly”. - MAD
The bird imagery suggests the son of becoming independent, he does t know him he’ll succeed. Similar to walking away. Mother understands.
“Scorching… fire one’s irresolute clay.” - WA
Growing up is hard. Fire turns clay into a pot. Makes them independent people
The farmer’s bride V Porphyria’s lover
FB longs for his wife
PL has killed his lover beside he wants their moment to last forever
“She sleeps up in the attic… alone, poor maid. ‘Tis but a stair//betwixt us.” - FB
Context
Enjambment almost imitates that distance in the language.
“Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss.” - PL
Context
At the beginning she was above him physically and socially now he is above her as he kills her.
Cyclical narrative
The farmer’s bride V Porphyria’s lover
Wife of FB wants nothing to do with him. He longs for it
PL is critical of his lover’s love
“We chased her, flying like a hare… all in shive and scare.” - FB
“We” pronoun creates more sympathy for her. Rhyming couplet emotive language - helplessness/vulnerability.
“From pride and vainer ties dissever,and giver herself to me forever.” - PL
He wants ownership of her
He wants her to separate herself from everything only him.
Follower V Climbing my grandfather
Admiration
“His shoulders globed like a full sail strung.” - F.
Lexical field of concentration
“Feeling his heat, knowing the slow pulse of his good heart.” - CMG
Certainty of discovering
Simple and monosyllabic
Follower V Climbing my grandfather
Family relationship
“Smooth and thick like warm ice.”
Oxymoron
“But today, it is my father who keeps stumbling behind.”
Roles reversed
Colts
