Set 1 Flashcards
Mother, any distance - an…..
Anchor. Kite.
Mother, any distance - endless….
sky to fall or fly
Mother, any distance - prairies
of floor
Mother, any distance - you pinch
at the last hundredth of an inch
Mother, any distance - you at
the zero end
Before you were mine - thought
the thought of me doesn’t occur
Before you were mine - actions
shriek, laugh
Before you were mine - on
the way home from mass
Before you were mine - eh
pal, sweetheart
before you were mine - ghost
your ghost clatters towards me
Follower - work
my father works
Follower - eyes
his eyes narrowed and angled to the ground
Follower - back
rode me on his back
Follower - shadow
follow in his broad shadow
Follower - sail
Globbed like a full sail strung
Mother, any distance poet
Simon Armitage
Before you were mine poet
Carol Ann Duffy
Follower poet
Seamus Heaney
Mother, any distance themes
Independence, Strong Bonds, Distance
Mother, any distance comparison poems
Independence - before you were mine
Strong Bonds - before you were mine, follower
Distance - follower
Follower themes
Strong Bonds - mother, any distance, before you were mine
Admiration - before you were mine
Distance - mother, any distance, winter swans
Nature - winter swans
Memory - before you were mine
Before you were mine themes
Independence - mother, any distance
Strong Bonds - mother, any distance, follower
Admiration - Follower
Desire - Porphyria’s Lover
Memory - Neutral Tones
Climbing my grandfather poet
Andrew Waterhouse
Climbing my grandfather context
Waterhouse studied and taught environmental science
Background in a semi-industrial town, as reflected in his poems
Poems believed to be auto-biographical
Climbing my grandfather mountain
‘Traverse’, ‘altitude’, ‘summit’
Climbing my grandfather safety
‘Without a rope or net’
Climbing my grandfather shoulders
‘Still firm shoulders’
Climbing my grandfather birds
‘Clouds and birds circle’
Climbing my grandfather weave
‘Pushing into the weave’
Mother, any distance context
Armitage’s first house was only down the street of his parents
Book of match’s (poems as quick as a March burning)
Follower context
Family were all farmers
Many of his poems have an autobiographical feel
Many speakers in his poems struggle with identity
Feel like an outcast
Before you were mine context
Looking at a photo
Societal expectations of 1950s and how their mother challenged them
Generationally, Duffy was separated from her mother by WW2 contributing to the perceived distance
