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- Created by: solarsafestudy
- Created on: 04-05-20 11:07
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- Comparisons: On Her Blindness and A Minor Role
- language
- juxtaposition: "cancel things, tidy things; pretend all's well, Admit it's not.' - shows their insecurity and evidence of them performing for others
- similies: as blank as stone/ bear it like a Roman/ bumping into walls like a dodgem .
- handicaps are hell is a metaphor. Hell is a place of torture as punishment for sin. As far as we know, they didn't do anything wrong , innocence evokes empathy from the reader.
- Themes and Ideas
- identity
- playing a "role" is a big part of functioning. Playing a role can mean that you are protecting your identity and dignity -
- performance
- the need to perform for others despite suffering because you don't want to be a burden
- performing in order to try and improve the life quality of the one who is ill
- the need to perform for others despite suffering because you don't want to be a burden
- illness
- the burden of having a terminal illness takes a toll on mental health - the mother says 'i'd bump myself off / she pretended to ignore the void/ staring at nothing"
- wishing 'for a simpler illness' but the act of wishing is futile because you and others suffer regardless.
- society
- acceptance
- in order to survive the position you are in, you must accept the state that you are stuck in. Which is why there is a miserable tone thought the poem
- identity
- Structure
- Irregular line and stanza length to signify the self conflict while being effected by terminal illness
- varied punctuation; semi- colon and listing suggests burden
- final line 'I am here to make you believe in life' - structurally powerful as a standalone linde as it is on of the key ideas in the poem
- two-line/couplet stanzas make the poem look regular but there is far for irregularity about the poem
- final line 'she was watching somewhere in the end' - only linne to reinforce who at the beginning (my mother)
- Form
- the title is in reference to a sonnet by John Milton called On His Blindness after Milton lost his sight. The poem is about his difficulty to cope with his difficulty.
- a dramatic monologue ; sense of individual and feeling of isolation
- Imagery
- Semantic field : misery
- language
- juxtaposition: "cancel things, tidy things; pretend all's well, Admit it's not.' - shows their insecurity and evidence of them performing for others
- similies: as blank as stone/ bear it like a Roman/ bumping into walls like a dodgem .
- handicaps are hell is a metaphor. Hell is a place of torture as punishment for sin. As far as we know, they didn't do anything wrong , innocence evokes empathy from the reader.
- its explained as genres, suggesting that you have there are many states of hardship with a terminal illness. You are supposed to just accept and learn to cope.
- language
- "sustaining the background music of civility "
- "observed on a stage"/ "exits and entrances"/ "monologues".
- Semantic field : misery
- language
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