Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mid-Term Break
- Imagery
- Child-like
- "Counting bells knelling classes"
- Child-like act
- School bells
- "close"
- Waiting
- Reflects the death
- Church bells
- ONOMATOPEA
- "In his cot"
- Colloquial term
- So small and so young
- Distance
- "Four foot box"
- box devalues the death
- not a coffin
- Seperates himself
- Nature
- "Poppy Bruise"
- Semi-permanence
- Imagining his brother without it
- Heroic - war
- Undeserving of death?
- died at young age
- Rememberence
- Snowdrops and candles
- Ritually for funerals
- Symbolic of light and life
- Death
- "The corpse"
- Dehumanises - separating from his brother
- Stanza 6 finally brings in pronoun "him" - come to realisation
- Overview
- Deconstructs childhood innocence/ignorance
- Retrospective look of childhood
- Adult = remorse and regret - reflecting on struggles
- Themes
- Growing up
- Family
- Death
- Tone
- Traumatic
- Sombre
- Structure
- 7 stanzas, 3 lines per stanza
- Final single line with rhyming Couplet
- Act of death followed by realisation
- Reached emotional maturity to deal with death
- Closed distance
- First person account - autobiographical
- Personal memory
- Stanza 6 - finally accept's
brother's death
- I saw him
- enjambement
- stops at I saw him - to highlight
the shock and suddenness of
the situation
- Caesuras
- Into the room. Snowdrops
- Six weeks. Paler now
- "met my father crying"
- First realisation of
what's happening
- Contrast to usual
father figure
- Only one not
crying - changed
from a child
- Rhyme
- No specific rhythm or rhyme
- Reflect the surprising/harsh nature of life
- Full rhyming couplet at end
- Reflect his childlike nature
- Stands out inescapably - highlights the shock
- Sense of finality
- Heaney finally accepting it as a poet
- Phonetics
- Whispers
- Sibilance - harsh
- Tormented by the gossip
- Hushed/awkward/sad atmosphere
- "The baby cooed"
- Childlike nature and innocence -
bouncy emphatic rhythm
- Direct contrast to the opening
stanza's measured pace
- Aware of the naivity of the baby
- Language
- "Hard blow"
- Double Meaning
- Emotional
- Real impact of the car
- Posaessive Pronouns
- "my trouble" "my mother"
- Deictic markers - aware of the timings and
surroundings - grasping the reality of death
- "All morning"
- Next morning
- At ten o'clock
- At 2 o'clock
- When I came in
- Suggesting of entering
grown up world of pain
- Shake my hand