Mother, Any Distance

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  • Created on: 20-06-21 20:53
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  • Mother, Any Distance
    • 'Mother'
      • lack of colloquial language, trying to mature and place distance between mother and him
    • 'any distance greater than a single span'
      • slight internal rhyme - creates an intimate , shows how close he is, shows mother as protective
    • 'You come to help me'
      • although physically separated in this line, shows reliance on mother
    • ' acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors'
      • hyperbole- afraid of future and distance from each other
    • 'zero-end'
      • limit of tape measure/umbilical cord
    • 'recording length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base'
      • emotional connection
    • 'Anchor. Kite.'
      • juxtaposition - kite symbolises freedom and joy can only experienced when grounded
    • 'two floors below your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch'
      • half rhyme - neither mother nor son want to be separated, justified upset at son growing up, hard 'ch', inch = distance

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