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Amy Caroline - Coggle Diagram
Amy Caroline
- "My grandmother, living to be ninety,"
- possessive pronoun
- declaratory tone
- caesura separating human qualities and emotions from her age
- "Held her head on one side like a sparrow, had a bird's bright eyes
- zoomorphism/natural imagery - curiosity/intelligence of grandmother and her appraising approach to life
- the biblical allusion symbolises God's benevolence to creation
- birds are symbolic of freedom/curiosity/wonder; However, sparrows are perceived as weak, reflecting society's perception of women
- Despite Amy Caroline's traumatic experiences, she can maintain a sense of hope. Anomalies for women dealing with grief
- "At dinner used to set an extra place for strangers...food for lizards"
- soleasm - noun 'she' is missing from the sentance as she focused on those around her rather than herself
- dinner table - metonym for setting of the domestic sphere - only place for her to exercise agency and individualism within the patriarchy
- tricolon represents the values of AC being connected to the natural world. This describes society's expectation for women to be generous and compassionate
- demonstrating AC's instinctive behaviour to care for others, whether they be animals or strangers the stereotype that women need to be accomodating
- the persona's juxtaposing ideas alight a new perspective to how being generous and being unfulfilled co-exists meaning she still feels content whilst feeling neglectful
- "She said, in Bendigo and Eaglehawk"
- eponym to Victoria gold rush - paradox as she has generosity in a world of greed
- "She put out food for lizards, scattered crumbs/for wrens beside the pepper tree, and saved/The household water for geraniums"
- listing and enjambment - no limit to her largesse as she shares with people and nature
- "At twilight, at the meditative hour"
- seasonal metaphor, polysemy - nighttime but also life period before death
- "She liked to strum the songs she learnt long ago"
- sibilance
- storytelling connotation
- "She had eight children, little money, many griefs"
- volta shift towards end of poem
- high modality
- tricolon, asyndeton - breathless rhythm, skipping over specifics of life's difficulties
- met challenges with graciousness
- emotive language - underlying sense of injustice despite generosity and high-spirit
- the juxtapositiom of feelings of contempt and feelings of satisfaction in the past and the severe hardships she endured.
- the paradox from earlier in the poem where she was happy to devote her life to others because society told her to. However, she internally felt empathy and unfulfilled
- women had little independence and their worlds were circumscribed by what they did for others, she existed and thrived within this.
- "She never had a jinker and a horse/To drive about the roads in, of her own"
- desire for ownership - metaphor for life and the control/power she wished for in a patriarchial society
- memory is personal and endearing as it reflects the grandmother's lack of freedom and choice
"she was sorry"
- interrupts the poem to reinforce a regretful tone to emphasise her lack of satisfaction. This personal reflection is reflective of the many unfulfilled lives of women who live in patriarchial society