Miracle on St David's Day

Title:

• Religious

• Wales

• Daffodils

• Significant moment

• Ambiguous.

Themes:

• W. Wordsworth: beauty in Nature. God's presence in nature.

• Stereotypes and appearances.

• The power of language.

• Significant memory.

• Social Identity and preconceptions.

• No speech – no identity

Language:

• Religious.

• Power of Language.

• Personification: 'The sun treads.'

• 'Treads' suggest gentle.

• Present tense.

• 'A beautiful chestnuts haired boy.' converses our preconceptions then puts blunt in a short sentence: ' A schizophrenic.'

• Punctuation and caesura reflects the halting nature of the patients speech.

• 'A big mild man is tenderly led.' Although he is big, he is mild. Subverting our views – there is nothing to fear from the man.

• Triplets: emphasise : 'Not…