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Carol Ann Duffy Set 3 (In Your Mind (Imagery (Auditory ("Apt sounds…
Carol Ann Duffy Set 3
In Your Mind
Imagery
Auditory
"Apt sounds mark the passing of the hours. Seagulls. Bells. A flute practising scales". This image brings life and a positive atmosphere to the place.
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“Sleep. The rasp of carpentry wakes you. On the wall, a painting” This shows 3 different things altogether. This can show the disjointed feeling of waking up and taking in all your surroundings, it can also means that you woke up from your dream and saw your self in a different place
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“Then suddenly you are lost but not lost” They are lost in a mental sense, as they do not know what to do. But they are not lost in a physical sense, as they know where everything is and recognise their surroundings.
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Structure
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This poem has four stanzas, six lines each. The length of the lines are similar, they all go along to make a narrative poem. This poem has no rhyme. Duffy has chosen to tell the story with the second person. The persona is travelling back to Scotland, but in her mind.
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Last line has short sentences, This shows that it is matter of fact and boring their life is.
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Symbolism
"And then a desk. A newspaper. A window. English rain."
A symbol that suggests tough and ordinary everyday job.
"Its language is muffled by the rain which falls all afternoon..."
Unclear memories from the past, they are mixed what is happening right now.
"a warm coat" might symbolise warm memories from Scotland, and "you will leave on the plane" might suggest that when the persona arrives in England, she has to focus and temporarily forget them on the plane, which means in Scotland
A Child's Sleep
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‘A Child’s Sleep’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a five stanza poem which is separated into sets of four lines, or quatrains. Each of these quatrains follow a specific rhyme and so on. This pattern remains consistent throughout the piece and has been crafted in an effort to emphasize the simple, peaceful, and fluid nature of the child’s sleep, so there are four stanzas with six lines in each stanzas. This may refer that what is happening and what had happened is what was and is supposed to happen.
rhythm and rhyme
In this poem some words rhyme, which have totally different meanings “light”, “night”; “breathe”, “leave”. This creates a positive tone, which suggests how happy it is to be a mother. But some words do not rhyme in the poem, this may mean that being a mother is not always a happy thing and actually is pretty hard
She uses repetition and rhyme at the start of the poem in stanza 1 to show how beautiful it is to watch her child sleeping.
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Metaphor: "Her sleep was a small wood" could represent that it is sheltered and small could represent her growing.
A Child's Sleep: metaphor, the writer compares a child to something magical("spirit") in the nature("woods")
A child's sleep: A metaphor meanining that child's sleeps is similar to the child: really tiny and beautiful
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Visual imagery: "maternal, wise, with its face of the moon." She describes the night using personification showing how good of a mother the night is.
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gazed back, maternal, wise,
The writer in this sentence provides to the audience an olfactory imagery “perfumed with flowers”, which creates a positive and peaceful atmosphere.
tone and themes
Duffy in her poem “child’s sleep” presents the theme of motherhood, by describing the peaceful sleep of a child, who is watched over by her mother.
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Foreign
Language
Alliteration- "dismal dwellings", soft soind in depressive way
Onomatopoeia - "you hear your foreign accent echo" suggests the sense of loneliness, when the speaker stays at their apartment on their own
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'Your foreign accent' - An oxymoron to controdictory terms. Its your accent,but it is foreign to other, you are not welcome here even after 20 years
"Imagine living in a strange, dark city for twenty years...Imagine that" - the beginning and the end are the same, showing that nothing changes in the speaker's life, and even after living there for 20 years, this will never become their home
Structure
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Each stanza has 5 lines
Such a simple structure may represent the persona's willingness of becoming similar to local people to fit in the society
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Occasional rhyme, because not everything is good (mean-dream, night-light, know-ago)
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Imagery
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Visual imagery " you use the public transport. Work. Sleep" shows the routine. Although the persona uses public transport and mixes with local people, they are still isolated
Auditory - ''You hear your foreign accent echo down the stairs'', ''The voice in your head recites the letter in a local dialect'
Visual - ''Imagine one night you saw a name for yourself sprayed in red against a brick wall''.
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