Never Go Back- Carol Ann Duffy
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- Created on: 29-03-21 19:46
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- Never go back
- Stanza 1
- "living dead"
- metephor- death/decay/same dull repetitive cycle
- "you talk for hours"
- irony-there is nothing to say to these people
- "bar"
- foregrounding of a specific place/ a familiar space but speaker feels disconnected
- "living dead"
- Stanza 2
- "limping"
- imagery- relating to death and decay
- "God this is an awful place"
- personification agreement with speaker- suffering of alcohol
- "again.Again"
- repetition- stagnation/repetive cycle
- "limping"
- Stanza 3
- "brides has cancer"
- brings back bad memories - negetive/hard past
- "accusing" "climb"
- Transactive verbs- difficult being here
- "lies" "cries"
- rhyme- past memories torturing her?
- "brides has cancer"
- Stanza 4
- "you shouldn't be here"
- direct address- imperative making her feel she isn't welcome? A warning to herself?
- "speechless, slamming"
- sibilance- connatations of fear and anger- Dynamic verbs?
- "shadow"
- a figment of her own imagination? She isn't wanted?
- "you shouldn't be here"
- Stanza 5
- "looks like death"
- simile- death is inevitable
- "slowly"
- It is a long process- makes the pain lasts longer
- "sly sums of money"
- Alliteration- Personification
- "looks like death"
- Stanza 6
- "you pay to get out"
- makes you feel trapped- you don't have money?
- "Welcome To"
- It makes the place seem frendlier then it is
- "forget" "released"
- connatations of freedom? Nothing was worth remembering- or the place was so bad you don't want to?
- "you pay to get out"
- Stanza 1
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