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To my nine year old self - Coggle Diagram
To my nine year old self
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Joy and innocence
'Don't looks so surprised, perplexed, and eager to be gone,' use of imperatives asserts authority over whom the speaker is addressing and the use of verb choices emphasises a sense of naivety
'created by an ice-lolly factory, a wasp trap and a den by the cesspit,'
from sweet to dangerous, niavety
'sherbet lemons,' - sweet on the outside, sour on the inside, sweet initially and sour later on like life
there is certainly a sense of relish in naivety and childish ignorance, 'or to lunge out over the water on a rope that swings from that tree,' - natural imagery perpetuates the sense that naivety is natural
'I leave you in an ecstasy of concentration..''to taste it on your tongue,' - humorous tone, there's a misplaced concentration on insignificant things when you're a child
Change
'tightrope,' - foreshadows difficulties to come, for children, such a balance and such risk is fantasy but for adults its reality
'do you remember...''we'd jump straight out of the ground floor window into the summer morning?' - rhetorical question, pathetic fallacy in that childhood is compared to the summer - joyful, warm and fruitful
'that summer of ambition,'
'time to pick rosehips for tuppence a pound,' - medicinal elements foreshadow pain
'I shan't cloud your morning,' - adulthood, in contrast to the summer of childhood, is dull and grey
Nostalgia and loss
'careful of a bad back or a bruised foot,'
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