Stabat Mater
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- Created on: 12-11-16 14:24
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- Stabat Mater
- Stanza 1 and 2
- Oddity of mother calling her husband 'Mr'.
- Distance between the two
- Mother junior; looking up to her husband's accomplishments
- "made her seem so small"
- Overawed by the husband
- Great deal of respect for him
- Almost oppressed by the relationship (initial impression)
- Contradicted: clear that she loves the man and inferiority complex is because of a feeling of awe, respect and wonder; considers more accomplished
- Distance between the two
- Enjabment
- Youth flows quickly
- Oddity of mother calling her husband 'Mr'.
- Title
- Sorrowful mother
- Reveals what Hunt infers from his mother's behaviour
- Her actions in the poem don't reveal this
- Stanza 3
- Way she addresses him is completely flipped when husband reaches old age and incompetence
- 'every other sort of name'
- Switch from respectful to caring and authoritive
- father may have Alzheimer's (common disease amongst the old)
- Switch from respectful to caring and authoritive
- "guiding him as he roams old age"
- father may have Alzheimer's (common disease amongst the old)
- 'still like a girl'
- start contrats between the couple
- Father old and sickly; mother still youthful
- start contrats between the couple
- 'as if it were a game'
- not wanting to be weak for her son
- treats his old age 'as if it were a game'
- not moaning and wailing like Mary
- ellipses are used indicating that feelings and attitude projected by mother don't tell the full story
- Sorrowful mother
- relation to Mary and title
- Sorrowful mother
- not wanting to be weak for her son
- No enjabment
- Slow, painful progress of old age
- Stanza 4
- Hunt perceives her game as the game of life
- he is meant to read into his father's deterioration and recognise the message
- 'Once I stand up straight' represents maturity from youth to adulthood
- 'must learn to walk away' and go do something with life
- father serves as an example that 'there's no return' to youth
- 'must learn to walk away' and go do something with life
- father serves as an example that 'there's no return' to youth
- 'Once I stand up straight' represents maturity from youth to adulthood
- he is meant to read into his father's deterioration and recognise the message
- three four line stanzas, but a couplet to end
- life is short; reminder of mortality
- Hunt perceives her game as the game of life
- Wistful tone
- Stanza 1 and 2
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