'Effects'- Alan Jenkins
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- Created on: 21-02-18 17:28
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- 'Effects'- Alan Jenkins
- STRUCTURE
- Opening
- Alternate line rhyme
- Although somewhat regular line rhymes, a sense of uncertainty grows through the open to the prgoression
- Helps show the reader how the narrator still struggles underneath
- His memories of mother are consistent and seem to be constantly within the narrators conscience
- The memories brings peace and warmth to narrator momentarily
- Alternate line rhyme
- Progression
- Main turning point for the narrator as he realises the effects of death and loss
- Turning points can be seen with the small, gradual increased use of hyphens in progression
- Break in consistency could symbolise the memories being lost in the narrators empty emotion due to his guilt
- Main turning point for the narrator as he realises the effects of death and loss
- Close
- Ends in couplets
- Begins to come to terms with her death
- Things begin to piece together although ends on a tragic note
- "her face to see" and "her effects to me"
- "see" and "me" exaggerate the narrator's loss
- Mirrors how he attempts to cope, but overall knows that his mother will never see the impact of her death on him
- Could be trying to transfer guilt onto the mother?
- Wants his mother to know that he still feels empty after his loss?
- Ends in couplets
- No stanzas, poem in one whole stanza
- Symbolises that life is a constant, highlighting the importance of carrying on even though effects of events may attempt to stop you
- Also makes reader feel intimated and overhwelmed, reflecting the huge effects mentoned in the poem
- Only made up of two sentences
- First full stop has much significance
- "Only now that he was dead."
- First full stop has much significance
- Opening
- IMAGERY
- Domestic imagery of the mother
- The prime of her life as she gave love to the narrator
- Brings comfort to the reader and narrator alike
- Representative of the mother's class and the era she was from growing up in England
- Comfort also comes with conflict and pain- the mother with the red knucles and scarred hands
- The ending of the mother's life in a psych ward
- Contrast with the imagery in the opening
- Accentuate her deterioraton and how the narrator lost his mother even before her death
- Brings sadness to the reader through the idea of hopelessness and helplessness in the narrator
- The narrator feels helpless, which is transferred to the reader
- Brings sadness to the reader through the idea of hopelessness and helplessness in the narrator
- Domestic imagery of the mother
- FORM
- Tone is solemn with hints of guilt running through the progression
- Intermittent colloquialisms show symbolise his background but most importantly attempt to hide his mourning and grief
- Colloquialisms make poem more informal, connecting he narrator to the reader
- Intermittent colloquialisms show symbolise his background but most importantly attempt to hide his mourning and grief
- No strict form, in one whole stanza
- Tone is solemn with hints of guilt running through the progression
- LANGUAGE
- Colloquialisms make poem more informal, connecting he narrator to the reader
- Repetition-key language technique
- "night after night" and "drink after drink", "stared", "blinked"
- Reflect more negative connotations, add sense of seriousness to the poem
- Represent the debilitating nature of death and loss on the mother with a lack of support
- STRUCTURE
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