Poems - Childhood
- Created by: abrandnewdan
- Created on: 13-05-18 14:57
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- CHILDHOOD
- Half-past Two
- language
- invented words
- Nexttime
- notimeforthatnowtime
- put the reader in the child's world
- simple, childlike language
- wicked
- cross
- figurative language
- adds to dreamlike effect
- invented words
- structure
- free verse
- 11 3-line stanzas
- reflect the child's tendency to compartment-alize chunks of time
- other techniques
- anaphora
- the repetition of line openings immerses the reader in the feeling of timelessness
- capitalization of words
- Time
- Something Very Wrong
- shows the world from the child's perspective (shows what he thinks is important)
- personificatio-n / zoomorphism
- 'the little eyes'
- 'two long legs fro walking'
- 'he couldn't click its language'
- anaphora
- tone/themes
- timelessness
- children's perspectives
- imagination
- language
- Piano
- tone/themes
- nostalgia
- lonliness
- reminiscence
- negative change
- language
- negative
- 'betrays me'
- 'insidious mastery'
- 'the heart of me weeps'
- 'vain... clamour'
- 'flood'
- 'in spite of myself'
- emotive
- 'i weep like a child'
- 'betrays me'
- 'the flood of remembrance
- Untitled
- sibilance
- 'insidious mastery of song'
- allusions to sound
- 'tingling strings'
- 'tinkling piano'
- 'boom'
- negative
- structure
- 3 4-line stanzas
- matches the steadiness and harmony that the memories bring
- rhyming couplets
- regular syllable count
- matches the steadiness and harmony that the memories bring
- rhyming couplets
- regular syllable count
- internal rhymes
- musical
- 3 4-line stanzas
- tone/themes
- Hide and Seek
- language
- imperative
- immerses the reader in the urgent competition of the game through the child's eyes
- assonance
- figurative
- emphasizes the childlike storybook view of the world
- 'hide in your blindness'
- 'smell of sand moves in your throat'
- 'salty dark'
- imperative
- structure
- free verse
- written as a single stanza
- from the perspective of a child without the restrictions (or security) of regular routine
- free verse
- from the perspective of a child without the restrictions (or security) of regular routine
- tone/themes
- abandonment
- disappointed
- play
- other devices
- oxymoron
- direct speech
- immerses the reader in the urgent competition of the game through the child's eyes
- language
- Half-past Two
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