Mid Term Break
- Created by: qwerty86
- Created on: 01-02-15 13:22
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- Midterm Break
- Quotes
- "Counting bells knelling classes to a close."
- There is a sense of boredom as he counts the bells
- connotes to funeral bells
- 'The baby cooed and laughed’
- shows the lack of understanding
- It seems it is the adults who are most upset
- Baby is innocent of all knowledge and reacts normally; life goes on
- "In the porch I met my father crying; He had always taken funerals in his stride
- Crueller than most deaths as the child was so young.
- Emphasises how personal this experience was to them
- "A hard blow"
- how hard it was for the family
- how the child was killed, being hit by a car
- "As my mother held my hand In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs"
- Mother holding hand appears to be comforting him
- Yet next stanza we see her as the one who is upset, as if he is comforting her
- "Snow drops And candles soothed the bedside"
- symbolic of life
- He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
- He calls the coffin a box because he doesn't believe he's really dead
- "Counting bells knelling classes to a close."
- Structure
- Enjambment
- Poet is held together on the outside, under the surface he is struggling to cope
- Split into 7 equal length stanzas of three lines
- showing that he is very held together and at this point not emotional
- In the last line he breaks out of the pattern with a single line
- showing that he has finally reached the point of being able to face up to his emotions
- Enjambment
- Language
- All in past tense
- recounting the events that have happened, without giving his own response to it
- "cot"
- shows cruelty, as he should be safely in his cot
- All in past tense
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