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Material - Coggle Diagram
Material
Childhood
the mother presentation
"And sometimes more than one fell out / as if she had a farm up there"
metaphor
mother always prepared with handkerchiefs
humorous
"My mother was a hanky queen"
how the mother appeared to the child
poem as an ode to the mother
persona giving her children a different childhood
"The innocence I want my brood / to cling on to like ten-bob notes / was killed in TV's lassitude"
"brood"
only child
simile
converging to the past and present
"TV's lassitude"
modernity
shift in the times
Memory
memory of the mother
"My mother was a hanky queen"
colloquialism
ode to the mother
connecting hankies to the mother
missing the past
"I miss material handkerchiefs, / their soft and hidden history."
nostalgic
linking back to the title of the poem
linking mother to handkerchiefs
constrained rhyme scheme
persona tight in memory
Identity
persona comparing herself to her mother
"She bought her own; I never did."
first inclusion of the first person
mother always buying what the child needed
"There's never a hanky up my sleeve. I raised neglected-looking kids,"
end-stopping line
contrast to mother
"But it isn't mine. I'll let it go."
caesura
contrast between mother and daughter
end-stopping line
push memories back and focus on the present
persona having her own identity
"And it was me that turned it on and eat bought biscuits"
encouraging modernity in the home
"bought biscuits"
not baking / not a housewife
changing her own life
Relationships
persona's relationship with mother
"that this is your material / to do with, daughter, what you will."
elegy
mother speaking
material is inherited
"when hankies were material / she'd have one, always, up her sleeve."
hankies no longer around
mother has passed away
linking to the title of the poem
relationship with the past
"should I complain / of the scratchy and disposable,"
society and the past
ironic that the mother left tissues
persona not knowing where to go herself
"and script initials spelling ponce, / the naffest Christmas gift you'd get -"
"ponce"
uncool, infeminite
"naffest"
colloquialism
addressing the audience
conversational tone