Brendon Gallacher
- Created by: Tamara Elmani
- Created on: 07-04-13 17:38
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- Brendon Gallacher
- Language
- Childlike
- "Mum" and "daddy" is fit for a poem about childhood
- Non-standard English and Scottish dialect
- "Wee" and "burn" - Scottish dialect. Makes the poem more believable as the language used is indictive of a child speaker
- Conversational
- As if she is telling a story and we are eavesdropping
- Childlike
- Structure
- Line repetitions
- "He was" "I was" start most of the lines, as well as "My Brendon Gallacher", which shows her ownership of him
- Half-rhyme
- Makes it more realistic that a child wrote this, as well as making the poem more song-like and playful
- Enjambent
- Creates a conversational tone
- Line repetitions
- Form
- "Tender elegy" form
- An elegy is a mournful and melancholic poem, often a funeral song or lament of the dead
- "Tender elegy" form
- Themes
- Growing Up
- Childhood
- Fantasy
- Death
- Friendship
- Language
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