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Marking Time -Skirrid Hill - Coggle Diagram
Marking Time -Skirrid Hill
TITLE
Marks of love and time together, significant moments in relationships.
The first poem in the Sheers love series on a specific partner who he explains the start and end of the relationship.
STRUCTURE
Two single 8-line stanzas, couple are joined yet still individual.
'Bed', 'Instead'; only lines that rhyme. Perhaps self encloses nature of sex, lust and passion took over.
All line have 10 syllables with only 2 dramatic hypo syllabic lines which both reference the scar- could represent a leading impression or perhaps healing?
Broken sonnet; could allude to broken relationship.
Sheers and his partner create a mark on the woman's back whilst having sex on the floor.
Themes of Sex and Love.
"That mark."
A strong and memorable moment for Sheers.
"Finally fading".
ALLITERATION shows how long ago the relationship happened.
"That night our lust wouldn't wait for bed".
Resembling strong intimacy, personifying lust as someone impatient.
"Laid us out upon the floor instead".
As if sex overpowered them.
Sense of vulnerability.
"Brand burn".
The ALLITERATION and PLOSIVE language hints at a violent act, sex in this case.
"I trace them now and feel the disturbance again".
Could demonstrate feeling of regret.
"Loving scar remains."
Final line, suggests that Sheers is not over the relationship, it remains.
Connects to Heaney's exploration of a 'Vaccination mark'.
'Like loves who carve trees".
SIMILIE. Creates a sense of youths being young and naive in love,
"Under the bark", idea of nature. Trees are wise. symbolism of hope in relationship.