Zusammenfassung der Ressource
MATERIAL
- LANGUAGE
- extended metaphor
- 'my mother was the hanky
queen'
- Highlights the
admiration of
her mother
- anaphoric reference
- 'handy packs are 50p'
- collocations of words
- 'tissues and uncertainty'
- juxtaposes her as a
mother and her own
mother
- proper and concrete nouns
- 'Greengrocer George'
- personal connotations and links to childhood
- 'fishmonger'
- sense of solidarity
- collocations of words
- personal pronouns
and negative
adjectives
- 'I'
- highlights self blame
- 'neglected' and
'awkwardness'
- highlights self blame
- KEY IDEAS
- changing relationships
- sentiment/ nostalgia
- memories
- KEY THEMES
- childhood
- relationships / family
- life and death
- STRUCTURE
- caesura
- 'she brought her own;
I never did
- creates a blunt tone --> shame
- repetition
- 'hankies;
throughout
- highlights structured nature
- 'step-together' x3
- set rhythm
- formality of
childhood
- SOUNDS
- half rhymes
- e.g. 'cloth' and 'shops'
- level of uncertainty
- onomatopoeia
- 'scrubbed'
- violent care
- 'scratchy'
- negative attitude
towards parenting
- rhyming triplet
- 'disposable'
'material'
'will'
- sense of closure