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Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy
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GCSE English (Poetry Anthology) Mapa Mental sobre Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy, criado por Shannon Dhillon em 13-02-2018.
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Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy
Context
Autobiographical
Writing about her own personal experiences
Perhaps her own mother
Feelings and Attitudes
her mother was happiest during the 10 years before she was born.
She wanted to be like this more often, but realises that her mum was only really fun-loving and glamorous before she was born.
The narrator imagines her mother when she was younger, possible informed by her mother’s own memories and anecdotes.
Narrator admires her mum’s glamour and her headstrong, rebellious approach to life
She wishes her mum was still fun-loving and carefree
Structure
Beginning- having fun with her friends End- walking with her daughter
Emphasises the changes that time has brought There’s a clear division between before and after the poet was born
Present tense
trying to make her mother's past as real as possible
‘I’m 10 years away.’ ‘I’m not here yet’ ‘The decade ahead’
Each first 3 stanzas start with a reminder of the distance in time between the narrator’s birth and her mum’s youth and fun
‘Before I was born.’
Caesura
Emphasises that the narrator’s birth was the turning point in her mum’s life
Exciting Language
describe how exciting, fun and glamorous the narrator’s mum’s life was before the narrator was born
‘that glamorous love lasts where you sparkle and waltz and laugh
Visual Imagery
Lexical Field
‘Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.’
Compares her mother with Marilyn Monroe, a glamorous and desirable film star
‘the fizzy, movie tomorrows’
Figurative language that suggest energy and exciting possibilities
She may have hoped for a life like a movie heroine
Repetition of ‘and’
Emphasises how many energetic qualities the narrator thinks her mother had
Stresses her mum’s defiance and energy
romanticises her mother and the glamorous life she used to lead.
Possessive Language
The speaker believes that when she was born, she took control of her mum, and took away her freedom
This reverses the typical idea of children wanting to break free from their parents
The child does not let go of the parent ; the child owns the parent
Here, it’s the child stopping the parent from having fun The child cannot let go of the parent
‘before you were mine’
Repetition of the word ‘mine’ throughout the poem and in the title
Emphasises the difference between then and now It also develops the possessive tone
‘till I see you, clear as scent’
Simile
Show that her imagination is so vivid, that she can smell her mother
Colloquial Language
Creates an imaginary conversation with her mother Suggests that they have a close, familiar, informal relationship
Was the best one, eh?’
‘And whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?’
Creates a conversational tone
Sounds like something a parent would say to their child But here, it’s the other way around
Key Themes
Parent and child
Admiration
Nostalgia
Memory
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