Stafford Afternoons-Carol Ann Duffy
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- Stafford Afternoons
- Stanza 1
- "suddenly"
- adverb- ability to go back to the memory at any point
- "only there"
- Deixes- importance of place. Unforgettable and powerful memory
- "gardens were empty"
- Allusion to Garden of Eden/Biblical reference- loss of innocence
- "suddenly"
- Stanza 2
- "on the motorway bridge"
- shift in tone- away from familiar environment
- "I waved at windscreens"
- personal pronouns voice speaker is a child. Alliteration- recalls childhood game
- "in colour"
- Personification- colourful imagination
- "on the motorway bridge"
- Stanza 3
- "cul-de-sac"
- no exit/endless
- "a strange boy threw a stone"
- The danger of nature- Suggests the boy has more freedom
- "edge of a small wood"
- hints she is near danger and out of safety
- "cul-de-sac"
- Stanza 4
- "drew sly faces"
- like it is a childhood game.
- "light and shade"
- Juxtaposition
- "flowering nettles"
- The nature is growing more dangerous- suggests something is about to happen? or it pulls her back from the danger?
- "drew sly faces"
- Stanza 5
- "Too late"
- She has done something permanant
- "purple root"
- colour connatations of power and mystery- phalic symbol/euphenism
- "a distant lownmower"
- familiarity- sounds of normality? realisation- nearly back to safety
- "Too late"
- Stanza 6
- "scattered and shrieked"
- alliteration
- "time fell from the sky like a red ball"
- red links to connatations of violence and passion. She has returned to the safety of her childhood.
- "scattered and shrieked"
- Stanza 1
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