English Literature Poetry - 04/01/07
- Created by: Laura J Thomas - Team GR
- Created on: 30-03-13 21:23
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- 04/01/07
- 'shatters'
- broken; destroyed
- 'night's dark glass'
- was asleep
- 'I'm suddenly awake'
- present tense; sense of urgency
- 'Gives me the news I already knew'
- was expecting it
- 'The light clicks on'
- metaphor for hope
- 'Feeling that the story ends'
- grief has been resolved
- 'The stream dried up'
- stopped crying
- 'smashed glass clear'
- refers to beginning of poem
- 'slap' 'torn'
- emotive; destructive
- 'And a lit plane drones in the night's dark blue'
- monosyllables; emphasises iambic pentameter; imagery
- 'waking to sleeping'
- lifespan
- 'new year air'
- assonance; juxtaposition between old and new, life and death
- 'in the moment'
- life can change very quickly
- 'My brother's voice'
- shows family; kinship
- 'I'm trapped inside that empty space you float in when your mother dies'
- empty; disconnected
- 'clinks and shines'
- shows optimism; visual and auditory imagary
- 'shatters'
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