Identity and Language- Duffy P.1

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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
                    • 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'
        • 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'
      • Nostalgia
        • Structure
          • Change in length last stanza
            • Nothing feels the same, despite familiarity
        • 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'.
      • Oslo
        • Structure
          • Regular 4 line structure
            • Identity doesn't change no matter the place
        • 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.'
    • 'You're foreign here'.

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