An Easy Passage
- Created by: Lottie Deutsch
- Created on: 18-12-18 17:30
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- An Easy Passage
- title
- passage of adult hood to childhood
- idealised childlike vision of life being easy
- section 1
- 'she is halfway up there' - idea of her being stuck between adult and childhood
- she is portrayed as young and vulnerable 'crouched', 'bikini', 'trembling'
- 'she must no do this' - show imposing control of mother still in her life - imperitive
- in life there are many 'sharp drops' and 'narrow situation' how hard life actually is
- the girl idolises her friend who is an adult waiting for her
- the gap between the window and her represents the gap between adult and childhood
- uses of asyndetic listing to make climax to jump greater
- constrast of 'flimsy, aluminium lever' and 'the warm flank of house' - shows difference between adult and childhood
- house is her safe haven. She must stretch the length of her body showing huge gap between adult and childhood
- section 2
- her 'tiny breasts' emphasise her youth
- the narrator distances themselves from the narrator asking the question 'what can she know of the way the world admits less and less the more we grow?'
- suggests it is an older version of her looking back on her life
- narrator says the girl world is idealised 'lit as if from within'
- the first one has 'golds studs' suggesting she is growing up
- childhood is idyllic compared to the 'long grey eye of the street' - life
- section 3
- we see the 'drab, electroplating factory' which juxtaposes the idealised childhood suggesting the reality of the world
- diacope used 'far too, most far' shows how one still has dreams but the others have none
- different stages of life seen along the street the hopeful 'secretary' and the people who are stuck in a job to earn money
- talks about fate and the way life has way of getting in the way
- life is out of our control just like astrology 'astrology column'
- it suggests the secretaries unrealistic hopes - a fake - like the astrology column
- life is out of our control just like astrology 'astrology column'
- depicted as vulnerable again through use of 'next to nothing' and 'pale calf' - relates to a baby cow
- the fact that she is 'shielding her eyes' from the sun reflects how she doesn't see the whole picture of adulthood
- the 'flash of armaments' reflect the harshness of the adult world compared to the 'shade of the house' - childhood
- constrast between verbs 'gracefully' shows how childhood is a dream
- structure
- free verse to represent a stream of consciousness
- this suggests the on going stream of life
- lack of structure reflects lack of structure in childhood juxtaposing adultlife
- the structure mirrors the idea of an easy passage as there are no blocks to it
- free verse to represent a stream of consciousness
- title
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