Plenty
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- Created on: 15-12-20 16:49
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- Plenty
- Title
- Makes reader think 'of alot'
- Ideas of love and fun
- What's It About?
- Focuses on the contrasting feelings of a person, who as a child, experienced growing up in poverty yet is now living a different lifestyle
- Begins to understand why mother was 'mean' when she was a child
- Themes
- Childhood
- Motherhood
- Relationship between mother and 5 daughters
- Difficulty / poverty
- Structure
- 8 unrhymed 4 line stanzas
- Enjambement + Caesure
- Irregular rhythm and line length
- Free verse
- Idea of childhood
- Reflects what is going on
- Represents way in which memories are both set and fluid in our minds
- 1st person narrative
- Allows Dixon to dive deeper into the narrator's inner thoughts and experience the narrator's emotion
- Dashes - create pauses, stop flow, attention, shows confusion
- Volta - S7, tense shifts from past to present, focus shifts from meory to current life
- Idea + Imagery
- 'Old enamel tub'
- Detailed imagery of the old, aged, disused tub
- 'Dams leaked dry and windmills stalled
- Visual imagery - countryside, lived there?
- 'Running riot'
- Strong imaged of chaotic children
- Limited description of mother suggests as children they never understppd why she acted how she did
- 'warmth / disgorged from fat brass taps'
- visual imagery
- flows from one line to the next due to enjambement, like flow of water into a bath
- Tactile imagery - warmth shows feeling of water
- assonance creates sense of largeness
- visual imagery
- Idea children are inherently selfish
- 'Old enamel tub'
- Rhythm, Repetition + Rhyme
- No rhyme scheme
- Alliteration and assonance on some lines create small amount of rhythm
- Repetition of vowel sounds in assonance
- Language
- 'Like Mommy's smile.'
- Simile, comparing her mother's smile to there being no wind or drought
- 'All running riot'
- alliteration of present continuous, idea of happiness and having fun
- 'was a clasp to keep us all from chaos'
- metaphor, tightness of smile creates a sense of being retrained
- 'lid clamped hard on this.'
- End stopped line suggests her smile isn't loving
- stanza 3, last two lines
- Alliteration of letter s builds up tension
- 'Each month was weeks too long'
- Hyperbole - understanding how mother felt, worries etc.
- 'Like Mommy's smile.'
- Title
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