Identity and Language- Duffy P.1
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- Created on: 07-03-20 10:32
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- Identity and Language
- Litany
- Structure
- Regular 6 line stanza
- The stiffness of how the ladies identify themselves with
- Stereotypical awkwardness and stiffness of upper and middle class women in the 60s
- Context
- Litany
- Structure
- Regular 6 line stanza
- The stiffness of how the ladies identify themselves with
- Stereotypical awkwardness and stiffness of upper and middle class women in the 60s
- Context
- Context
- Stereotypical awkwardness and stiffness of upper and middle class women in the 60s
- The stiffness of how the ladies identify themselves with
- Regular 6 line stanza
- Language
- 'salted my tongue like an imminent storm'
- 'No one had cancer, or sex, or debts'
- 'Language embarrassed them'
- 'embarrassing word, broken to bits'
- Identity
- 'Stiff-haired wives balanced their red smiles'
- 'Sharp hands poised'
- Structure
- Litany
- Context
- Stereotypical awkwardness and stiffness of upper and middle class women in the 60s
- The stiffness of how the ladies identify themselves with
- Regular 6 line stanza
- Language
- 'salted my tongue like an imminent storm'
- 'No one had cancer, or sex, or debts'
- 'Language embarrassed them'
- 'embarrassing word, broken to bits'
- Identity
- 'Stiff-haired wives balanced their red smiles'
- 'Sharp hands poised'
- Structure
- Nostalgia
- Structure
- Change in length last stanza
- Nothing feels the same, despite familiarity
- Change in length last stanza
- Context
- Reflect pain of soldiers
- Naïvety of society
- Language
- 'It was killing them. It was given a name.'
- 'Some would not fall in love had they not heard of love.'
- 'Hearing tell of it, there were those that stayed put.'
- Identity
- 'wrong taste...wrong sound..wrong smells'
- 'it made them ill-leaving the mountains... to go down, down'.
- Structure
- Oslo
- Structure
- Regular 4 line structure
- Identity doesn't change no matter the place
- Regular 4 line structure
- Context
- Period of migration and travelling
- Perspective where the English is the foreigner
- Language
- 'Not to speak the language makes you innocent again, invisible.'
- Identity
- 'Someone loves you hard enough to sieve a single star'
- 'You're foreign here'.
- 'You take the shortcut past the palace.'
- Structure
- Litany
- 'You're foreign here'.
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