Mother, Any Distance - key images
Three of the main key images in Mother, Any Distance explained - annotations.
- Created by: Mrs_Sloan
- Created on: 19-10-21 19:20
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- Mother, Any Distance
- By Simon Armitage
- 'The acres of the walls, the prairies of the floors. You at the zero end.'
- Theme of freedom
- The tape could represent an umbilical cord, how they are attached, tied together always.
- Semantic field of measurements
- Metaphors
- 'Anchor. Kite.'
- Anchor - mother, security, safety, weight.
- Kite - child, freedom, new possibilities.
- Links to the last line, fall or fly.
- 'To fall or fly'
- Fall - fail
- Fly - succeed.
- Soft 'f' sound reinforces the idea of flight.
- Ambiguity - does the child think they need their mother to succeed or do they fell like their mother will fail them?
- Metaphor
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