mid-term break
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- Created on: 28-12-19 15:59
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- Mid-Term Break
- purpose
- elegy, embodies a struggle to control feelings, emotional turmoil
- content
- boy has suffered a traumatic loss, his 4yo brother was killed in a car accident, affecting him and his family
- analysis
- stanza five + six
- 'angry tearless sighs'- different response to grief, loss too great for words
- 'ten o'clock'- movement of time in poem
- 'corpse'- categorically unequivocal
- 'snowdrops' etc- poignant, signs of mourning, remembrance
- 'candles'- scene of meditation, quiet contemplation
- 'him'- identity still withheld
- stanza seven
- 'wearing'- boy can't fully take in brother's death
- 'as in his cot'- factual, simple statement, but depth of meaning= tender age
- 'bumper knocked him clear'- powerful ending, heroic couplet, painful realisation
- 'a four-foot box, a foot for every year'- monosyllabic, slows line down, caesura isolates phrase, further emphasises it, isolating this line adds to its impact, only full rhyme= lingers in readers mind
- stanza three + four
- 'baby cooed'- relief, change of tone, baby is blissfully unaware
- 'to shake my hand'- don't know how to respond
- enjambed- subtle intensification,concentration, quickening, loss of control
- 'sorry for my trouble'- awkwardness in exchange
- stanza one + two
- alienating impact/ separate from friends
- 'knelling'- death knell. world continues outside
- 'neighbours'- not family, seriousness of event evident
- full stop after home- time elapsed before next stanza
- 'Big Jim Evans'- emotionally tough, double meaning. his words are horribly clumsy yet apt, brutal accuracy, line ends w full stop, allowing 'hard blow' to resonate
- stanza five + six
- tone
- neutral, matter-of-fact, factual, emotionally colourless, understated- emotions held back by ordinary conversation
- structure
- blank verse/ iambic pentameter
- tercets/ written in triplets
- doesn't rhyme except last 2 lines, unshowy, down to earth, break in structure
- enjambement
- disordered pattern subtly signals tensions under calm surface
- purpose
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