english literature

"all smiles stopped together"

 - he killed he so she stopped smiling at and men and they stopped smiling at her

 - proud of himself / boasting

 - regrets doing it " all smiles" including his

 - powerful

 - no remorse / trophy

"looking as if she were alive"

 - beginning introduces she is dead

 - boasting / jelousy / dominant / hate / outrage

 - jelous of his last duchess

 - feels he justified the reason to kill her

" i think my love as rare"

 - ryhming couplet shows relationship

 - contrast other cliches

structure

 - iambic pentameter connotes love

 - he loves her for who she is not what she looks like

" farewell child of my right hand"

 - oldest son gets everything such as land

"my sinne"

 - feels guilty that sonne died as it is his fault

 - sinne is stronger

 - grief

 - pride

" and her breast and her arms and her hands, should drop dead"

 - creates excitement by repeating the word "and"

"let death be felt"

 - doesnt want a quick death

 - experience in killing

 - wants it to be painful

" following the sun to west from east"

 - backwards to show the hitchers perspective on life

" the ansaphone kept screaming"

 - miscommunication with the outside world

" didnt even swerve"

 - experienced

 - no emotion / proud or happy

 - free intention to kill

 - wants to permanantly disfirgure

 - strategic / clinical

 - wants to remove the hitchers identity

"batman, big shot"

 - spitting it out in anger

 - harsh 'b' sound connotes shooting of bullets

 - it is the beginning of the peom so it is effective

 - stopping the community focusing in batman want them to focus on him

 - batman and robin could be the metaphor for a father and son

 - robin is getting more confident

"now im the real boy wonder"

 - it is the beginning of the peom so it is effective

 - stopping the community focusing in batman want them to focus on him

 - batman and robin could be the metaphor for a father and son

 - robin is getting more confident

" Anchor. Kite"

 - the anchor is a metaphor for the mother

 - the kite is a metaphor for the son

 - portrays the relationship between mother and daughter

-  the first line of stanza one starts with " mother"

 - the first line of stanza two is "you"

 - the first line of stanza three is "i"

 - this portrays that the son is growing more independent

"these ribs are pleats or seams"

 - describes himself as a product of the jacket

 - reconciliation

"it still fits"

 - no matter what happens they are still her parents

"step backwards into it"

 - wants to get back where they were before the argument happened

structure

 - the stanza lengths vary which connotes that someone will be there for you depending on the different circumstances

" the decade ahead of my loud, possesive yell was the best one, eh?"

 - before i was born your life was better

 - sarcasm

 - control / acceptance / respect

" stamping stars from the wrong pavement"

 - connotes that she has crushed her mothers dream

 - broken the pavement

"marilyn"

 - secrets behind the pictures

 - mother is now dead, so is marilyn monroe " now your ghost clatters towards me"

" im a mucky ghost"

 - wants to be the centre of attention in the middle of the middle stanza

 - invisible to the outside world " ghost"

 - pride

" you dont understand a word im saying, do you?"

 - outcast / outsider

 - leaves the reader thinking

 - opens and closes the poem with a question

" frozen stiff, hugged to my chest, a fierce chill"

 - oxymoronic

 - contrasts with each other

" i watched my gloved hand twisting the doorknob"

 - outsider

 - knows what he is doing but doesn't try to stop himself

" by touch, by scent, by taste"

 - multi sensory

 - life is complete

 - love

"romance and drama played..."

 - showed through experience

 - work / drama / tradgedy

"next best bed"

 - memories they shared in that bed

 - relationship is stronger in that bed

 - love

"i hold him in the casket of my widows head"

 - her lover has passed away so she is holding him in her thoughts