Mrs Tilscher's Class


	Context	The Struggle for Identity
	Autobiographical, Mrs Tilscher real, Duffy taught by her Moved from Scotland to England, last year in primary school 1967 reminiscences of a happy time and a sense of apprehension in leaving behind a safe space in order to face an uncertain future, in terms not only of education but also of physical and emotional development	Growing up Freedom and restriction Boundaries Idealism
	Language	Structure
	'a window opened with a long pole'- see outside world, not quite there, breaking free, aspiration 'this was better than home. Enthralling books'- idealizing childhood, innocence and youth, better than actually was, how children are easily pleased- Duffy admiring this trait that we lose as we grow up 'the air tasted of electricity. A tangeible alarm made you always untidy, hot, fractious under the heavy **** sky'- uncomfortable in own skin, sexual tension, growing up, more attractive, waking up to new self, sexuality	stanzas decrease in length- countdown, progress through term, puberty, changing emotions and physical aspects, change in attitude and mood 'you ran through the gates, impatient to be grown the sky split open into a thunderstorm'- wider world more dangerous, last summer of childhood, naivety, chaos of adolescences, turmoil of emotions

Autobiographical, Mrs Tilscher real, Duffy taught by her
Moved from Scotland to England, last year in primary school 1967
reminiscences of a happy time and a sense of apprehension in leaving behind a safe space in order to face an uncertain future, in terms not only of education but also of physical and emotional development

'a window opened with a long pole'- see outside world, not quite there, breaking free, aspiration
'this was better than home. Enthralling books'- idealizing childhood, innocence and youth, better than actually was, how children are easily pleased- Duffy admiring this trait that we lose as we grow up
'the air tasted of electricity. A tangeible alarm made you always untidy, hot, fractious under the heavy **** sky'- uncomfortable in own skin, sexual tension, growing up, more attractive, waking up to new self, sexuality

stanzas decrease in length- countdown, progress through term, puberty, changing emotions and physical aspects, change in attitude and mood
'you ran through the gates, impatient to be grown the sky split open into a thunderstorm'- wider world more dangerous, last summer of childhood, naivety, chaos of adolescences, turmoil of emotions

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