'The Penelopes of my homeland'

Distances - separate things
'of my homeland'
1. Personal connection throughout
'silent labour'
1. Lonlyness
'wove their own and their children's shrouds'
1. Joyless, preparing for death
2. Contrast, unnatural about weaving own and children's shrouds
'that their colourful future was all in the past'
1. Contrast - poetic and fanciful
'hopes raised by palm-readers'
1. Visiting fortune tellers
'and to the just God//who does not allow such nightmares to continue'
1. Nightmares = killing of all the people
2. Changing onto a religion
  1. Deluding themselves
'Years and years of raising more Penelopes'
1. Bringing up another generation just wastes their lives
Language
1. Repetition
  1. 'waiting', 'without'
2. Contrast
  1. 'colourful future'
3. Alliteration
  1. Hard sounds, harsh reality
  2. 'their dream was dead the day it was dreamt'
4. Monosyllabic
  1. Abrupt reality
5. Personal pronoun
  1. 'my'
Themes
1. Wasting their lives
2. Living in a fantasy world
Stucture
1. 6 stanzas
  1. First 2 - working
  2. Middle 2 - growing
  3. Last 2 - dying
Messages
1. Don't waste your life living for something that could never happen

Resource summary

	Created by cameronporter96 over 11 years ago