Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Carol Ann Duffy - Wintering
- Intro (Impact)
- about ....
- Purpose: ...
- Creates sympathy for speaker by ...
- sense of never ending damaging cyclical
path of relationship
- highlighted by ...
- Imagery
- connotations of .....
- through this, shows relationship ......
- "slow funerals have ploughed the rain"
- "funerals"
....
- "plough" .....
- "I wear a shroud of cold"
- "shroud" .....
- "grey fades to black"
- .....
- "grey" .....
- "black" ....
- Start of poem
heavy focus on
......
- Undermining romantic symbols
- "the stars begin their lies"
- "stars" - symbolic of .....
- undermined by ....
- "Night clenches in its fist the moon, a stone."
- verb "clenches" and noun "fist"
connotations of .....
- "moon" romantic, undermined by...
- "..."
- ......
- ......
- Form / Structure
- in each tercet, middle line
shorter, and contains one clause
- "has wept its leaves",
"all my mistakes",
"the sky is flayed"
- creates sudden and striking caesurae,
representing .....
- Alternatively emphasises.......
- Split into three parts
- First focuses on....
- Second on .....
- third on ......
- Conclusion
- end of poem shows .......
- reader told of a "hidden
freight" which "shifts" the
dynamic of attitude of writer
- Use of different tenses ......... shows .....
- final stanza filled with ..... sounds symbolising.....
- words from start of poem contrasted with words from end
- Eg.
- "love to pain" from pain to love as "winter thaws and melts"
- paralleling relationship to ...... through lexical choice
- Half Rhymes and Full rhymes represent .....