GCSE English Literature Poetry (6)
- Created by: Sam Groves
- Created on: 05-04-11 18:25
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Homecoming
- Description
- One of Simon Armitage's more personal poems, and is written as if he is talking to a close friend or lover.
- About trust between parent and child
- Armitage is talking in present tense about the damage done to someone's parents' trust in the past.
- Trying to suggest to them to mend their relationship.
- Language
- Title suggests returning home after a period of time, in this case after a dispute.
- Poem starts with imperative "think" and then "two things on their own and both at once" - the 2 things are clearly linked, poet wants us to imagine link between them is trust.
- the "canary yellow jacket" = metaphor for trust. In last stanza he wants them to make peace and to "try the same canary yellow jacket" again. Suggests the person can trust in him.
- In second stanza, the jacket is "blackened underfoot" could suggest jacket made dirty like trust was made dirty from pure. jacket being trampled on could suggest accusations being…
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