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Hide and seek - Coggle Diagram
Hide and seek
Themes
Childhood innocence
Poem link: Prayer before birth, contrast to the loss of childhood due to war
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Isolation and loneliness
Poem link: Piano, the memory that comes back when he plays the piano, of how he once had someone but now is crying alone
Poem Link: War photographer - in a dark room alone, photographer feels his efforts are futile as viewers dismiss the images
Abandoment
Poem link: LBDSM, lover that leaves him
Poem Link: In "Hide and Seek", the transience which shows how the innocence and joy of childhood is fleeting away from them in becoming an adult, whilst in "Blessing" shows the fleeting of the water, which came and gave them joy, emphasising the impermanence of happiness in their lives.
Language
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Use of sibilance
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Poem link: Blessing, sound of 's' to symbolise water sound
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Form
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Free verse - connotes to the freedom that you get from being a child which is lost when becoming an adult.
Poem link: Prayer Before Birth - also free verse, foetus pleading reader to help him/her to be freed from the evils of society
Structure
Enjambment, stretch of time --> Constantly going on, never ending game
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