The Map Woman (Feminine Gospels)
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- Created on: 25-09-16 20:56
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- The Map Woman
- Themes
- Identity
- Place of origin
- Being comfortable in your own skin
- Narrative Poem
- Stanza 2
- Line 1
- Tour of her life
- Line 9
- Death imagery/ memorials
- Personal history/ influential people on her life
- Death imagery/ memorials
- Line 1
- Stanza 3
- Shift from 3rd to 2nd person
- Line 7
- 'You'
- Direct
- Isolated/ solitary from married couple
- Direct
- Reference to outsider looking in?
- 'You'
- Line 9
- 'Tiny' - insignificant
- One tiny person in a huge crowd
- Sense of entrapment
- 'Tiny' - insignificant
- Stanza 4
- Line 4
- Autobiographical?
- Line 6
- Colour imagery
- Bruises/ pain imagery
- Line 6
- Colour imagery
- Bruises/ pain imagery
- Bruises/ pain imagery
- Colour imagery
- Line 6
- Bruises/ pain imagery
- Colour imagery
- Line 10
- Hard Day's Night reference
- 60s
- Line 10
- Hard Day's Night reference
- 60s
- 60s
- Hard Day's Night reference
- Line 10
- 60s
- Hard Day's Night reference
- Line 4
- Stanza 5
- Line 1
- Enjambement
- Life goes on
- Flowing
- "Facilitates the flow of the narrative"
- Rhyme
- 'The Graduate reference' -
- Line 2
- Rhyme
- 'The Graduate reference' -
- Line 2
- Contextualisation
- Space Odyssey
- Contextualisation
- Contextualisation
- Contextualisation
- Line 2
- 'The Graduate reference' -
- Space Odyssey
- Rhyme
- Line 2
- 'The Graduate reference' -
- Enjambement
- Line 3
- Sibilance
- Hinting at being inside - prison or hospital
- Sibilance
- Line 8
- Reference back history - memorial imagery
- Line 10
- Proper nouns
- Travelling/ escaping
- Proper nouns
- Line 1
- Stanza 6
- Line 4
- Always find her was back
- Like an umbilical cord, it pulls you back
- Line 4
- Stanza 7
- Back to 3rd person
- Line 3
- Fast metre
- Constant fast flowing life
- Fast metre
- Line 4
- Underneath her 'posh' clothes is her history and where she came from
- Lack of stability
- Inescapable
- Line 5/6
- Hider her roots
- Clothing imagery
- Hide/disguise her face
- Line 10
- Cyclical nature
- Bored/waiting
- 'The Great Escape reference
- Stanza 8
- Line 1
- Onomatopoeia
- Line 3
- Personification
- Line 4
- Casual tone - she hitch hiked?
- Line 5
- 'Junction 13' - freedom/ escape
- A path
- Unlucky number
- Danger/ abuse
- Vulnerability of young girls
- 'Junction 13' - freedom/ escape
- Line 7
- Casual tone
- Death imagery
- Line 10
- End - stopped line
- Symbolic of sudden loss of life
- End - stopped line
- Line 1
- Stanza 9
- Line 2
- Self worth
- Self identity
- Line 5
- Innocent
- Eyes/ soul are unsure
- Line 6
- Love of body image
- Confidence
- Eyes/ soul are unsure
- Line 2
- Stanza 10
- Line 1
- looking in a mirror imagery
- Expensive/ natural products
- Gained wealth
- Line 3/4
- Changing existence/ self identity
- Line 9
- Imagery - used and abused by past lovers
- Line 10
- Losing self
- End - stopped line = that part of life is over
- Line 1
- Stanza 11
- Line 1
- Starting again, 'once upon a time...'
- Umbilical cord, pulling her back
- Line 4
- Image of ruin
- Line 5
- Cleansing self of the past
- Line 8
- 'Never go back'
- More modern society portrayed
- Lost - she doesn't know the new place
- Line 1
- Stanza 12
- Line 1
- "Façade" = false
- Line 3
- Serpentine imagery
- Re-birth
- Breaking free
- Easy as taking off clothes
- Re-birth
- Easy as taking off clothes
- Sin/ devil. garden of Eden reference
- Serpentine imagery
- Line 9
- Map imagery
- Cyclical map mentioned at beginning of poem too
- Line 10
- Have to re-create self
- Line 1
- Stanza 13
- Line 1
- Reminiscing on old life
- Final line
- Engraved/ embedded in her. She can't get rid of her past
- Still hasn't found herself. Still can't accept herself
- Line 1
- Themes
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