One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings Analysis
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- Created on: 21-05-13 22:09
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- One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings
- Imagery & Significances
- Stanza 1
- Shadows overhead
- Worries of the future that they're expecting
- Death
- Worries of the future that they're expecting
- She like a girl dreaming of childhood
- Is she remebering herself as a child?
- Is she thinking about childhood overall?
- Is she dreaming about innocence?
- Simile
- The only way that she can bring back the good times is by remembering
- Simile
- Wait
- Emphasised
- What are they waiting for?
- Death
- the book he holds unread, her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead
- Lying apart now
- Shadows overhead
- Stanza 2
- Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
- Love and passion = the sea
- Flotsam = stuff flown up after a storm
- How cool they lie
- Suggest that their previous love and passion for each other was 'hot'
- They have had good times
- Suggest that their previous love and passion for each other was 'hot'
- They hardly ever touch, or if they do it is like a confession of having little feeling - or too much
- Old people may feel restrained
- You don't often see older people holding hands
- Sound like they may still have feelings for each other
- Old people may feel restrained
- Chastity faces them
- They've always known that it is going to happen(old age/ no sex) but they've ignored it
- The elephant in the room
- Personification
- Makes it seem more threatening
- They've always known that it is going to happen(old age/ no sex) but they've ignored it
- For which their whole lives were a preparation
- Suggests they have had good times
- People become more aware that their time is running out
- They've always known it was there
- They've swept it under the carpet
- Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
- Stanza 3
- Strangely apart
- Similarity
- Lying apart now
- Similarity
- These two who are my mother and father
- Separates them as mother and father
- Not parents
- Separates them as mother and father
- Silence between them like a thread to hold but not to wind in
- They're connected by a thread
- The thread holds them together
- If the thread was cut, they would die
- The thread holds them together
- Simile
- They're connected by a thread
- Strangely apart
- Stanza 1
- Overall Message
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Examining the awkward question
- What happens when you get old?
- Personal to poet
- Trying to understand the relationship herself
- Will she end up like her parents?
- Examining the awkward question
- First Impressions
- Depressing
- But not entirely depressing
- It could be about lots of different people
- Flotsam = stuff flown up after a storm
- There is a division between the two of them
- These two who are my mother and father
- Separates them as mother and father
- Not parents
- Separates them as mother and father
- These two who are my mother and father
- Depressing
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Rhyme Scheme
- Links words and ideas from the whole phrase
- Imagery & Significances
- They hardly ever touch, or if they do it is like a confession of having little feeling - or too much
- Old people may feel restrained
- You don't often see older people holding hands
- Sound like they may still have feelings for each other
- Old people may feel restrained
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