Ancestral Photograph
- Created by: Millief1
- Created on: 07-05-16 10:45
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- Ancestral Photograph
- Meaning
- The development of farming
- Mechanisation
- Heaney's past becoming outdated
- Confined in the attic
- The development of farming
- Sructure
- Several end- stopped lines
- Disbelief and sadness that his past is being updated
- Constantly reminded of loss - always a shock
- "and stands there still."
- Most important part at the end abruptly stopped.
- Death of man = death of farming
- Disbelief and sadness that his past is being updated
- Whole stanza dedicated to description of Uncle
- Pride
- Enjambament
- eg. "begins to fad? And must come down"
- Regretful tone
- Builds up to abrupt end-stopped lines
- anticlimax - disappointed
- eg. "begins to fad? And must come down"
- Several end- stopped lines
- Language
- Farming references
- "Turnip"
- Refuses to believe it is over
- "Turnip"
- "smack"
- Pain
- Onomatopoeia
- "he"/"him"
- Refuses to objectify his uncle in the photograph
- "if the farmers shopped/Like housewives at an auction ring"
- Bitter
- Mocking new farmers
- Demeans lack of manliness
- Farming references
- Meaning
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