use it; Mother is rubbing away / poem becomes ball of soap: poem has diminishing her poems been _________ to nothing more than _________, which dissolves in water 4.2 Very different to daughter's; can't "grabbed" "used" - mother's _________ survive on poetry. Practical woman, attitude to girl's poem earthbound 5.1 Small / short stanza, just as she a poem isn't all feels words are being silenced / there is to life, you said squeezed into nothingness with your blue-ringed gaze 5.2 Disappointment, deflation scanning the page once looking over my shoulder and back at the immediate That isn't everything, you said dirty water on the afternoon i brought the poem to you hunched over the washtub Repetition - "a poem isn't all" emphasises mother's _________ towards "isn't everything" - _________ isn't daughter's creative efforts important or has meaning "blue-ringed" - tired and _________ "hunched" - washing is a task she _________ not _________ enjoy and my words being clenched with you hands smaller and the shrivelled smaller. burnt granadilla "and my words" - poem _________ to skin of your hands nothing by mother's attitude, becomes covered by foam. more meaningless as soap becomes smaller. shrivelled burtn granadilla skin" - "smaller" - last line - creates _________ metaphor - hand have been _________ in effect water for a very long time, skin is Form: conversational _________ and purple Mother's attitude: _________- grabbed, Contrast between _________ and used, scanning. daughter: daughter is _________, Daughter's attitude: _________ slid, mother not. clenched, smaller and my words slid like a ball of hard blue soap into the tub to be grabbed and used by you to rub the clothes
use it; Mother is rubbing away / diminishing her poems 4.2 Very different to daughter's; can't survive on poetry. Practical woman, earthbound 5.1 Small / short stanza, just as she feels words are being silenced / squeezed into nothingness 5.2 Disappointment, deflation That isn't everything, you said on the afternoon i brought the poem to you hunched over the washtub "isn't everything" - _________ isn't important or has meaning "hunched" - washing is a task she _________ not _________ enjoy with you hands the shrivelled burnt granadilla skin of your hands covered by foam. shrivelled burtn granadilla skin" - metaphor - hand have been _________ in water for a very long time, skin is _________ and purple Contrast between _________ and daughter: daughter is _________, mother not. and my words slid like a ball of hard blue soap into the tub to be grabbed and used by you to rub the clothes poem becomes ball of soap: poem has been _________ to nothing more than _________, which dissolves in water "grabbed" "used" - mother's _________ attitude to girl's poem a poem isn't all there is to life, you said with your blue-ringed gaze scanning the page once looking over my shoulder and back at the immediate dirty water Repetition - "a poem isn't all" emphasises mother's _________ towards daughter's creative efforts "blue-ringed" - tired and _________ and my words being clenched smaller and smaller. "and my words" - poem _________ to nothing by mother's attitude, becomes more meaningless as soap becomes smaller. "smaller" - last line - creates _________ effect Form: conversational Mother's attitude: _________- grabbed, used, scanning. Daughter's attitude: _________ slid, clenched, smaller
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