'Genetics' - Sinead Morrissey
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- Created on: 13-03-18 11:34
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- 'Genetics' - Sinead Morrissey
- STRUCTURE
- All stanzas with the exception of the last are tercets
- Consistency is kept until a new relationship is formed
- Learning from new experiences?
- Creates past and present experiences as separate entities
- Consistency is kept until a new relationship is formed
- Last stanza is a quatrain
- New relationship formed, stronger and everlasting
- Takes and uses her experience to grow from it
- New, fresh beginning?
- Commas and full stops in stanzas
- Break the even flow within the stanzas
- Physical representation of breaks in the mother and father's relationship
- Full stops act as physical barrier between parents
- All stanzas with the exception of the last are tercets
- LANGUAGE
- Language is formal, could reflect her sincerity regarding genetics and divorce
- Constant repetition of fingers, palms etc. which exaggerates the pride of the narrator's identity
- Acecptance within divorce but also attempts to connect both parents to her by her genetics ad physical traits
- Abundance of possessive nouns e.g. "my" and "I"
- Narrator has ownership over their body/genetics and has pride within it
- Repetition of "mother" and "father"
- Narrator attempts to bring parents together physically in words
- Repetition of "mother" and "father"
- Narrator attempts to bring parents together physically in words
- IMAGERY
- Constant reference back to hands
- Coping mechanism for lack of connection?
- "I re-enact their wedding with my hands"
- Physical representation of her identity and pride
- "I lift them up ad look at them with pleasure"
- Coping mechanism for lack of connection?
- Religious imagery (Christian)
- Semantic field of religion used to create images of religion as a focus to the narrator
- My body is their marriage register
- "I shape a chapel where a steeple stands"
- "demure before a priest reciting psalms"
- Used to juxtapose the lack of purity within the relationship as they "sleep with other lovers"
- Semantic field of religion used to create images of religion as a focus to the narrator
- Constant reference back to hands
- FORM
- Rhythm and pace created with each stanza
- Use of full stops and commas at the end of each stanza
- Regular form, maintaining a consistent tone tbroughout
- Break in rhyme from "palms" and "friends"
- Reinforce slight instability when parents are symbolically linked contrasted to separation
- Break in 'equilibrium' of relationship
- Half-rhyme reinforces the tenson that still remains after the spearation
- "palms" and "hands"
- Relate to each other as a couple but are not the same
- Could connect to "mother" and "father" as they both connect and tough symbolically
- Connect in meaning and rhyme, but do not mean the same
- Relate to each other as a couple but are not the same
- "palms" and "hands"
- Rhythm and pace created with each stanza
- STRUCTURE
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