come on come back
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- Created on: 14-05-13 19:28
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- 'Come On, Come Back'
- context
- author
- highly individual style
- strange mix of comedy and tradgedy
- roots in her childhood
- abandoned by father when small
- perioidcally taken to hospital for treatment to TB from age of 5
- roots in her childhood
- strange mix of comedy and tradgedy
- seemed to life a quiet and uneventful life, but by late 1960s became highly well known
- struggled with depression for much of adult life
- independent child - helped by strong feminist aunt's role in her upbringing
- highly individual style
- subject matter
- future war
- some of the events in refers to are real
- battle of Austerlitz
- one of the largest battles in the Napoleonic war
- early 19th century
- Potsdam conference to decide on what would happen after ww2 to germany
- draws on idea of great nations making decisions that will affect the lives of ordinary people in villages and towns across the world
- battle of Austerlitz
- some of the events in refers to are real
- future war
- author
- form and structure
- form
- free verse
- no clear form
- free verse
- gives the poem a strange un easy feel
- no regular pattern
- we do not know where we are in time or space
- no clear form
- gives the poem a strange un easy feel
- therefore like Vaudevue
- left alone, lost on the battle field with no memory
- no clear form
- we do not know where we are in time or space
- structure
- each stanza is marked with a full stop
- tells a clear part of the story
- each stanza is marked with a full stop
- form
- language and imagery
- sound
- no conventional rhyme scheme
- poet links lines through words and sounds
- anywhere in the line e.g. 12 alone stone
- repetition e.g. 5 -,12 round flat stone
- alliteration, often initial constonants
- different line lengths
- structure
- each stanza is marked with a full stop
- tells a clear part of the story
- each stanza is marked with a full stop
- highlight how rhyme is awkward and artificial
- M.L.5 - left her just ALIVE
- almost comic rhythm
- shocking
- contrasts shockingly with meaning
- about a government organised human exterminator
- almost comic rhythm
- almost comic rhythm
- shocking
- contrasts shockingly with meaning
- about a government organised human exterminator
- M.L.5 - left her just ALIVE
- structure
- imagery
- from repeated sounds running through the poem
- mostly about moonlight and water
- memory
- even though it's about a future war
- memory
- images of secrecy and memory
- dream like quality
- sound
- attitudes themes and ideas
- meaning difficulat to understand
- moving towards something positive?
- pastoral
- shepherd playing tune
- dreamlike
- merely to escape the horror of war
- VAUDEVUE
- Vaudeville
- light 19/20th century entertainment
- idea of eau de vie
- water of life
- treadgedy is that she survives battle
- then is drowned in a water of death
- Vaudeville
- death in this context is friendly
- like a lover
- icy -amorous embrace
- adorable lake
- because what she leaves behind is so awful
- like a lover
- meaning difficulat to understand
- context
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