Zusammenfassung der Ressource
'The Penelopes of my homeland'
- Distances - separate things
- 'of my homeland'
- Personal connection throughout
- 'silent labour'
- Lonlyness
- 'wove their own and their children's shrouds'
- Joyless, preparing for death
- Contrast, unnatural about weaving own and children's shrouds
- 'that their colourful future was all in the past'
- Contrast - poetic and fanciful
- 'hopes raised by palm-readers'
- Visiting fortune tellers
- 'and to the just God//who does not allow such nightmares to continue'
- Nightmares = killing of all the people
- Changing onto a religion
- Deluding themselves
- 'Years and years of raising more Penelopes'
- Bringing up another generation just wastes their lives
- Language
- Repetition
- 'waiting', 'without'
- Contrast
- 'colourful future'
- Alliteration
- Hard sounds, harsh reality
- 'their dream was dead the day it was dreamt'
- Monosyllabic
- Abrupt reality
- Personal pronoun
- 'my'
- Themes
- Wasting their lives
- Living in a fantasy world
- Stucture
- 6 stanzas
- First 2 - working
- Middle 2 - growing
- Last 2 - dying
- Messages
- Don't waste your life living for something that could never happen