longfinsih
- Created by: annapowell
- Created on: 21-05-18 12:00
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- Long Finish
- A02
- Unusual double ballade
- Uses various metaphors to show the strength of their love 'eczema patch'
- Oxymoronic images '5 years of bitter rapture, 5 of blissful rows'
- Allusion to 'Matsukaze' japanese story of longing and loss
- Harsh imagery of the troubles shows they've overcome lows
- Main idea
- Title is reference to a bottle of wine, matures with age
- Reflecting upon 10 years of marriage, overcome 'soars and slumps'
- The end of the poem shows should live for the future and go forward with love
- A03
- Paul Muldoon contemporary
- Davison 'No reader will find him wholly accessible'
- Between 1988/98 the IRA campaign was to shoot farmers
- Ambiguous images - contemporary
- References IRA and Matsukaze - multicultursl
- Paul Muldoon contemporary
- Links with Jane (A04)
- Like Jane, shows that obstacles can be overcome
- Both texts use imagery or symbols of trees. Jane -chestnut tree shows their foreshadowed separtion but roots remain. Poem shows strength of love
- A02
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