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:speech_balloon: Homing :speech_balloon:, WRITTEN BY LIZ BERRY - Coggle…
:speech_balloon: Homing :speech_balloon:
TITLE
Double entendre:
Returning of an animal to its territory after being away from it
Allusion to Black Country practice of pigeon racing
THEMES
Identity
Heritage
Injustice
Belonging
Ancestry
KEY QUOTES
"...you kept your accent / in a box beneath the bed"
"the lock rusted by hours of elocution"
"We heard it escape sometimes, / a guttural
uh
on the phone to your sister"
"I wanted was that box, jemmied open / to let years of lost words spill out"
"I wanted to swallow them all"
"I wanted to forge your voice / in my mouth, a blacksmith's furnace"
"send your words, like pigeons, / fluttering for home.
CONTEXT
The Black Country:
Industrial region, preserved Anglo-Saxon dialect
Contemporary poet
LANGUAGE
End-stopped line
Metaphor
Narrative voice
Personification
Rhythm
Simile
Symbolism
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Five stanzas of equal length: Perceived need of people to conform to wider societal norms (to avoid ridicule)
Direct address: To ancestors (mother and grandmother)
Free verse: Conversational approach / Defiance and unwavering pride in her heritage, refusal to conform
WRITTEN BY LIZ BERRY