'To My Nine-Year-Old Self' Helen Dunmore
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- 'To My Nine-Year-Old Self' - Helen Dunmore
- Imagery
- Peeling scab - childish curiousity
- Mention of scars is not only physical
- Sherbert lemons: childish innocence
- Imagery of childhood activities - she is envious
- Language
- Old age
- 'Bad back or bruisedfoot'
- 'Look at the scars
- Energetic / childhood
- 'Rather run than walk'
- 'ice cream factory'
- Old age
- Structure
- Six stanzas
- Irregular lengths (5,6,7,6,5,3)
- No rhyme scheme/ pattern
- Enjambment
- Gives poem conversational tone and informal feeling
- Theme(s)
- Connected to our childhood by memories
- Age
- Innocence
- Movement
- Dreams and ambitions
- Tone / feeling of poem
- Apologetic tone
- Ruiniing her body and losing sense of adventure
- Depressing
- Looking at her happier past self
- Nostalgic
- Apologetic tone
- Imagery
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