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Mind Map by Shannon Dhillon, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shannon Dhillon
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Letters from Yorkshire -
Maura Dooley
- Context
- Lived in
Yorkshire
before
moving to
London
- Could be her
own
experiences
- Lived in
Yorkshire
before
moving to
London
- Key Themes
- Nature
- Longing
- Distance
- Connection
- Admiration
- Nature
- Feelings & Attitudes
- She values his
closeness to nature
and how he
experiences things
that she doesn’t in
her everyday life
- She seems
to long his
lifestyle, as
she finds it
as romantic
and
fulfilling
- The narrator reflects on their different
lives- the man lives in Yorkshire and
spends time outside, whereas, she
lives a long away in a city, and spends
her time inside writing
- She feels as though
he lives in a different
world, but the letters
he writes help her to
feel connected to
him and his way of
life.
- She values his
closeness to nature
and how he
experiences things
that she doesn’t in
her everyday life
- Structure
- Enjambment
- ‘seeing the seasons/ Turning’
- Free verse Makes the poem flow
like natural speech or a letter
Allows lines and stanzas to flow
into each other
- Continuous movement reflects
the way that the seasons are
constantly changing They are so
connected that talking is natural.
- Continuous movement reflects
the way that the seasons are
constantly changing They are so
connected that talking is natural.
- Free verse Makes the poem flow
like natural speech or a letter
Allows lines and stanzas to flow
into each other
- ‘seeing the seasons/ Turning’
- Middle
stanza
- ‘Is your life
more real
because you
dig and sow?’
- Rhetorical question
- Reflects how
the issue is at
the centre of
what the poem
is about
- Reflects how
the issue is at
the centre of
what the poem
is about
- Rhetorical question
- ‘Is your life
more real
because you
dig and sow?’
- Enjambment
- Physical Verbs
- Series of
active verbs
- ‘digging’
‘planting’
- Describe the
letter writer’s
physical work in
his garden
- They are
ordinary but
satisfying
actions
Emphasise
his
connection
with nature
- They are
ordinary but
satisfying
actions
Emphasise
his
connection
with nature
- Describe the
letter writer’s
physical work in
his garden
- ‘digging’
‘planting’
- ‘planting
potatoes’
- Alliteration
- Emphasises
that it is a
repetitive and
ordinary action
- Emphasises
that it is a
repetitive and
ordinary action
- Alliteration
- Series of
active verbs
- Contrasts
- The narrator presents her
lifestyle as different to the
letter writer’s He works
outside whilst she sits at a
computer Whilst he sees his
life as ordinary, she
romanticises it and sees her
own life as inferior
- Alliteration
- Emphasises the
contrast between
her ‘heartful of
headlines’ and his
‘seeing the
seasons’
- The word
‘headlines’
sounds
melodramatic
and artificial
compared to the
natural ‘seasons’
- The word
‘headlines’
sounds
melodramatic
and artificial
compared to the
natural ‘seasons’
- Emphasises the
contrast between
her ‘heartful of
headlines’ and his
‘seeing the
seasons’
- ‘feeding words
onto a blank
screen’
- Figurative
language –
‘feeding words’
- Creates a contrast between her
feeding words and his feeding
people with potatoes Her
actions seem artificial compared
to his experiences with na
- Computer shows the contrast
between their lifestyles and
professions ‘blank screen’ sounds
lifeless and empty In comparison to
his ‘singing’ knuckles
- Computer shows the contrast
between their lifestyles and
professions ‘blank screen’ sounds
lifeless and empty In comparison to
his ‘singing’ knuckles
- Creates a contrast between her
feeding words and his feeding
people with potatoes Her
actions seem artificial compared
to his experiences with na
- Figurative
language –
‘feeding words’
- ‘pouring air and light’
- More natural that the
words she writes He writes
to her about his
day-to-day life
- She romanticises it by describing in terms
of ‘air and light’ Almost a magical
description
- She romanticises it by describing in terms
of ‘air and light’ Almost a magical
description
- More natural that the
words she writes He writes
to her about his
day-to-day life
- The narrator presents her
lifestyle as different to the
letter writer’s He works
outside whilst she sits at a
computer Whilst he sees his
life as ordinary, she
romanticises it and sees her
own life as inferior
- Language about
Communication
- Communication
bridges the distance
between them
Emphasises the
things they have in
common
- ‘our souls tap out
messages’
- Figurative
language
Spiritual
language
- Shows that they
have a deep and
meaningful
connection
Suggests their
connection is
almost spiritual
- Shows that they
have a deep and
meaningful
connection
Suggests their
connection is
almost spiritual
- Figurative
language
Spiritual
language
- ‘who sends me
word of that
other world’
- ‘word’ and ‘world’
- Alliteration
& Assonance
- Make these words sound
similar but they are also
different This reflects how his
words make the speaker feel
close to his world, but also
reminds her that she’s distant
from him
- Make these words sound
similar but they are also
different This reflects how his
words make the speaker feel
close to his world, but also
reminds her that she’s distant
from him
- Alliteration
& Assonance
- ‘word’ and ‘world’
- ‘watching
the same
news in
different
houses’
- Communication
brings them together,
despite the physical
distance between
them
- Hints that their lives aren’t
so difference This shared
experiences makes her feel
closer to hi
- Communication
brings them together,
despite the physical
distance between
them
- Communication
bridges the distance
between them
Emphasises the
things they have in
common
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