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Inheritance - Skirrid Hill - Coggle Diagram
Inheritance - Skirrid Hill
Significance
Allusion to R.S Thomas - an Anglo-Welsh poet who often writes about his identity, his poem "Gifts" being about inheritance.
An epigraph acknowledges Sheers' literary heritage as he studied Thomas at A level.
STRUCTURE
Written in two heptets, each of which describe the speakers debt to either of his parents. Followed by a six-line final stanza talking of both his parents.
"Like a stick in the spokes of my speech", surrounding communication.
SIMILE, suggests disruption/obstructive preventions in his progress..
Sibilance orally reflects difficulty to communicate.
"A need to have my bones near the hill's bare stone".
Intimate connection with natural world, an intrinsic link between landscape and identity.
"A sensitivity to the pain in the pleasures".
Plosives reinforce the contrast and coexistence of opposites (pain vs pleasure).
Oxymoron perhaps suggests the loss of innocence contrasted with experience.
"The eye's blue ore", metaphor links to the natural world as something valuable and precious. Visual similarity to his mum.
Eyes are a connection to the soul, he is profoundly linked to the natural world through an emotional and soulful link with his mum.
"Drying in a rain-loud shelter".
Compound adjective suggests a sheltering and protective maternal nature.
"A joiners lathe turning fact into fable".
METAPHOR of rural craftsmanship and the suggestion that the mother is a story teller. She is creative and skilled, alignment of storytelling being craft. Fricative alliteration, suggests the transformative power of creativity. Idea reinforced by half rhyme of Lathe and Fable.