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Mind Map by lorynduffus, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lorynduffus
about 9 years ago
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Norman MacCaig Memorial Stanza 1
- "Everywhere she dies.
Everywhere I go she dies"
- "No sunrise, no city square, no
lurking beautiful mountain"
- Repetition
- Emphasises that MacCaig
cannot escape from the
pain and suffering of grief.
- Emphasises that MacCaig
cannot escape from the
pain and suffering of grief.
- Repetition
- "The silence of her dying sounds"
- Paradox
- The silence is so intense it
impacts as a loud noise would
- The silence is so intense it
impacts as a loud noise would
- Paradox
- "through the carousel of language"
- M,etohor
- A bright, colourful and musical
ride is now silenced by her death
- A bright, colourful and musical
ride is now silenced by her death
- M,etohor
- "it's a web/ on which laughter stitches itself"
- Metaphor
- MacCaig compares her death to
a web as he is unable to free
himself from it
- The word "stitches" suggests that this hold is very strong
- MacCaig compares her death to
a web as he is unable to free
himself from it
- Metaphor
- "that thick death"
- Word choice
- This use of imagery show how the
poet feels as though he is stuck in
her death
- Her death is heavy and
constantly overwhelming him
through every waking minute
- This use of imagery show how the
poet feels as though he is stuck in
her death
- Word choice
- "that intolerable distance?"
- Enjambment
- MacCaig indicates the
"intolerable distance" by
separating this over many lines
to show the distance between
himself and who he has lost
- MacCaig indicates the
"intolerable distance" by
separating this over many lines
to show the distance between
himself and who he has lost
- Enjambment
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