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POETRY ANTHOLOGY the poem has an alternating Rhyme of ABAB William Blake (1757-1827) London Personal L first person 1 people were kept in wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Repitition Repitition I mapped means ' out' Repitition Shosus us the most innocent. they the prostitute is V shouting at the place by rules. edi most bro Custs with the any of wfant because men r not supposed to cry in 5 In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, has to Restrictions (strict rules.)- Noun In every voice, in every ban - Reminds us that their society The mind-forged manacles I hear: Pear infant shouldn't have not an emotion your born with you have to learn it. a litirative metaphor-suggertsalar How the chimney-sweeper's cry 10 Every black'ning church appalls, And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace walls. Reperance to the french whilst rich But most through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot's curse 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. are Anaphora - Reinforcing the and the collective experiance. emotive anguage seems to be angry. Oxymoron are already suffering Suggests he doesn't believe in marriage because it fails joist Repilition } ut all forms of power black ning suggests reveloution: Mine thinkind palace -thinks ordinary pluts. Subjecting to stuff that is roo old for them (Prostitution, cursing) also might mean they are a curse on london. contrasts between the innocence of youth and sordidness of the spread of illnesses. and how bad the conditions were. dispar 1 links the happy Image of marriage with death (much like his views) baby, uncaring attitude to the weak and vunroble hes walking through london in the 1700s explaning what he can see. He describes It me on painful distressfull experiance, Setting it as a - the structure could mirror the Stricks regine. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 27 hes Souvids lik hes. Defensive Robert Browning (1812-1859) My Last Duchess Ferrara Possesive-ownes the Duchess along as the picture. Sets a sinister tone could be a realistic 1 -Dramatic monologue 5 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call or That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said Fra Pandolf by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they tumed (since none puts by 10 The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) the pquirting (shows has a powerful Repitition-emphasises hes you painting from a good Painter dropping) him to sit and look at, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on and her looks went everywhere. 25 Si twas all one! My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the archard for her, the white mule ensambment And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot- 15 Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps Frà Pandolf chanced to say 'Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that djegialong her throat: such stuff of place and suspicious- hints - referance to death is out 20 Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad, at the dutchestrate the duke struggles to express his irratation she was cheery and Criendly, but the duke means this as criticism. Red- Love - Soxual connotations constate Duch thought she was cheating cuz she accepted. was a verry Jebus, man She Locked out when she was alive at everyone but mm. shows hes possesive and controls who sees her painting. suggestive of the Bunes temper- a blush of say she keep blushing and it annoys the duke English Develop your leaming on AQA English-Library PLATON She rode with round the terracd-all and each 30 Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men, - good! but thanked Somehow I know not how - as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame 35 This sort of trifling? Even had you skill In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, 'Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark' - and if she let 40 Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, - E'en then would be some stooping: and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without 45 Much the same smile? This grew, I gave commands; - Sugests he killed her Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet he criticise her level she shou remember how to behav The company below, then, I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence 50 Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed: Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed- ofeng money for someones At starting, is my object Nay, we'll go daughassing his power and Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, hufe. 55 Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity. Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! -payment getting a new mite aanguk/engl-e-library 31 Extract from, The Prelude 1 volta - dramatic shift/Change in a Poem William Wordsworth (1770-1850) denty straighty unloosed her chain, and stepping in -Tranquill/ callon imagery, implies stealing Pushed from the shore it was an act of stealth) Stealing. the boat. nor without the voice Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on; Leaving behind her still, on either side, Small circles glittering idly in the moon, 10 Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge, 15 The horizon's utmost boundary; far above Morey Personification of nature. One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cove, its usual home. 28 repitition for the L' Sound helps Poem flow. Similar to boat morning gently. Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. She was an elfin pinnace; lustily (Boat) magical fairy boat = personifica I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat imagery contrasts 20 Went heaving through the water like a swan: When, from behind that craggyjeep till then The horizon's bound, a huge black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, And growing still in stature the grim shape Towered up between d For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. With trembling pars I turned, 30 And through the silent water stole my way / Ditched the to Boat mediares = the change in the middle of the plot. -Alitiration language starts to get darker and more Sinister -Trying to row away quickly -sibilance English Develop your learning on AQA Engine-Library SQUSTRY Sublime Imagery (impressive landscape •Narrator feeling Pear the mountain feeling cal evidance hes afraid Run and Trying to hide Back to the covert of the willow tree; There in her mooring-place I left my bark, - And through the meadows homeward went, in grave - serious importance -The impact was long lasting. doesn't understand And serious mood; but after I had seen 35 That spectacle, for many days, my brain, Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts has it. There hung a darkness, call-ivellectes Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes 40 Remained, no pleasant images of trees, acetor earns that theres more Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; > But huge and mighty forma, that do not live- Refering Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. to nature and that its different to lining men. GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY unsettling image he cant Forget it - All to one has learned nature is also Dangerous aswell as Pretty •Narrator is left feeling, alome and unsettled. -end contrasts to the beginning because hes quite carefree and curious at the begining and at the end hes scared and he can't forget it. poem is considered as an extended metaphore for growing up/maturity. Stanza conversational tone writen in blank verse = lambic pentameter aca.org.ukulengish-e-library 29 Repitition 2Pance - Repetitive to remember the 600 Soldiers to the bible make the poem more foreshowing the referances Alfred The Charge of the Light Brigade 5 (1809-1892) shows how far they Thave a long Journey. 1 Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death-a biblical Rode the six hundred. 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 32 3. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, 20 Cannon in front of them. Reffering to Repitition 30 of not could (creates a bro mean hes stutter; effect) hasises there Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, 25 Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. 259 Knew someone? made a mistake Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and dies because they were given Into the valley of Death order" Rode the six hundred. 4. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, 30 Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd! Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian 35 Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. Some people survived but not all of them Cannon to right of them. Scrind of the Replicating the cannons 40 Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them 2010 English Develop your learning e-Library 2. 'Forward, the Light Brigade!' 10 Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew they continued Repitition of left Some one had blunder'd even tho the All that was left of them, reminds us that Campe Annons of ADA Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, 45 They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, Personification, •Death and Hell thereh e-Library People 6. 50 When can their glory fade? they only hard swords ve tinderin O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! how I happened 'not. tition of of sadness Left of six hundred. People died a tome admiration and sadness creader renotorical question) 55 / Repitition/comanding to remember and honour the foo 1 Exposure This is a shared Painful 5 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) 25 Nature is personified and seems to be attacking the GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ellipseshimt that they're waiting for something to Low, drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient.... Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. the short, simple half line emphasises their boredom and tension. Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. The brambles! of the "barbed wire remind us of the Pain caused by nature. Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, - Assonance and onomatope 10 Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. I a biblical reference to matthew 24 - la create a vivid aural description What are we doing here? Rhetorical question asks what the point of it all is." The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow ... We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Dawn is personified using the language of battle Down nonchally bring 15 Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, hope. Buti not here. But nothing happens. nonchalance, lots of different emotions another reason why their the description of dawn approach chet L no colour the battle field is cold and lifeless. mirrors the soldiers in the Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. - Sibilance mimics Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, but here its black (Symbolysing evil, white Snow (symbordsing purity) With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, eat 20 We watch them wandering up and down the wind's Allitiration emphasises the relentle: of the snow. But nothing the snew flakes are personified - they're maliciously seeking the Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces - We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Half-rhyme creates a link between their current situation and their dreams of the past. Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. - Is it that we are dying? another question, possibly answering the first question they're here to die. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 33 Sibilance mil assonance of long on dainfulSounds makes the imagined them no warmth. Slowly ourignasts drag home glimpsing the sunk fires, glazed 30 With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; theres offke Jewels, which are precious by For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, иск поте We turn back to our dying. People in their Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; 35 Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, look cond. the caesurae in this stanza division on each line creat reflects how the m of their homes. whic This also refire shue soldierosind cret that Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, 40 Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp. vivid final stanza ends in same way as first stanza, 34 Suggesting that even death doesn't change anything. could mean that their love at For love of God seems dying. God is disappearing, or that they to the cold to their bodies. Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, -metaphor refers to the The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp,posure of what But nothing happens. of 1 dead men-its a vivid na Bhe description of how they've been overpowered by nature. it hints that the living men are no longer able to feel any emotion. SEANSTORATUARE suggests that they believe theder for life at home to be preserved. were as the war AGAD English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Ubrary Seamus Heaney violence image of conn (1939-2013) there. Storm on the Island creates a feeling of Saftey. first 5 lines talk about the Saftey and how they are preparing the middle part is talking & what's happening like the storm about of the 11 We are prepared: we build our houses squat, Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. Barran Land This wizened earth has never troubled us With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks 5 Or stooks that can be lost. Nora Jonely isolat are there trees Which might prove company when it blows full Plosive word the end part. -Talks about the power weather. But there are no trees, no Blast: you know what I mean - leaves and branches onomatapia Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale So that you can listen to the thing you fear taking Direct 10) Forgetting that it pummels your house too.- Image of violence Personicatural shelter. Oxymoron the feeling of fear and Saftey You might think that the sea is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. GCSE ENGLISH LITERATU PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLO oxymoron - they build there houses sturdy Directly addressing the red persona! reader experiances. Greek mythology/no one is protecting them address. similie/Shows they words (Semantic field of one are butters of That link to war) being scared of nothing/invisable frightened Sections. conversational poem Stanzas but 3 different war aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 35 Personification alitiration of force. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) heavy Bayonet Charge Chaotic (adverb a sence of urgency Suddenly he awoke and was running - ta-painful, bear/not prepared In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy - half asleep - Sweat filled Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge uniform. Scruffy, Dirty. That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing Bullets smacking the belly out of the air - He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm; - simile a usless Porsetion to his actual The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye 36 mationine him having In bewilderment then he almost stopped- no clue what he's doing.. stopped mid stride 10 In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations hes Just a he Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest. - I simile - Was he the hand pointing that second? He was running Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs Listening between his footfalls for the reason Of his still running, and his foot hung like 15 Statuary in mid-stride. Then the shot-slashed furrows he had a moment of regret... water to this. hampon amin elog in the Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide Open silent, its eyes standing out. He plunged past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, 20 King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm To get out of that blue crackling air His terror's touchy dynamite. AGAG English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library Rep 52 Simon Armitage (b. 1963) 5 Remains This sounds like one in a series readers is listening in. 1 On another occasion, we get sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank. colloquial expression - makes it And one of them legs it up the road, sound like an ordinary anecolore. probably armed, possibly not. Theres definite action that follows. doubt here, which contrasts strongly with the Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind, SO GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY repitition sounds like he's keen for the herseels guilty. 5 it wasn't just him- so all three of us open fire, 2 this Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear sudden violence doesn't fit with comes as a Suprise - the the casual tone. metaphor contrasts shockinghy with the colloquital style of the first two stanzas in and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out, straight through the bullet this is quite grotesque, exaggerate - he says he can see holes in the mans body. almost meins boely - the speaker seems unable to this is an dish description of adult wery. pain itself, the image of agony. One of my mates goes by two veryor the dead man casual, coffessi actions in an 15 and tosses his guts back into his body. and "carted off" make it scrites.. the body is a piece of rubbish Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry. Turning point (volta) in the poem. the speaker's mood changes avisual End of story, except not really. it foreshadows the memones the going to ending reflects the carries you fowards, and when the next stanza Poeticsaic more personal. I see I see every round as it rips through his life-hiviolent I see broad daylight on the other side. So we've hit this looter a dozen times His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrole I walk right over it week after week. 20 Then I'm home on leave. But I blink the stanza blinking the ensambment the horror is still Starts. of stories, and the short, simple once he's he's seen. at the there Sentence home suggests he thinks that he'll forget the terrible thin saddenness of the line also hints The Speaker being confused. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 37 Short words, separated from the rest of the line by caesurde, sound like gun shots. and he bursts again through the doors of the bank. Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not. Repitition of line 4 Sherus •that hes replaying the Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds. And the drink and the drugs won't flush him out - hints at his inter 25 he's here in my head when I close my eyes, the dug in behind enemy lines, - not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand, but near to the knuckle, here and now, 30 his bloody life in my bloody hands. 38 turmoil the violent parts of the compound adjectives, Stunned"? show how the pla smoth ered" affected by war. The line and the is Slow the pace. There's the speaker's coniective responsibility clear thought. now-he feels. completely. responsible. no . compares the sordier in a French. AG10 English Develop your learning cn ACA English e-Library e-Library Sibilan and reflect се lack of there could be d a Bouble meaning to "bloody" - he's talking about the man's blood, but also swearing in anger. Macbeth after Possible reference to and tries to persuading her busband to kill King Duncan lady macbeth sleep walks wash imaginary blood from her hands. this allusion hints that the speaker has been unbalanced by his guilt, as Lady macbeth was. Poppies 1 * this references to the sense of touch shows the mother longs for the closeness bhe had with her son when he was small, and emphasises the distance between them Weir (b. 1963) Repetition emphasises the parallel between national and personal mourning and remembrance. Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves. Before you left, I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY 5 spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade Suggests she feels from her sons life shut out of yellow bias binding around your blazer. makes the reader thing of an insured be Sellotape bandaged around my hand, wounded and she is emotionally in war. I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could, smoothed down your shirt's Domestic, motherly image do this for her son may be 10 upturned collar, steeled the softening she can across the tip of your nose, play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little resisted the impulse 15 to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair. All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, an . ominous reminder that war kills individuals, Solossis personal of my face wanted to graze my nose* Alliteration emphsises shes trying to be brave cinel shoku по emotion. attempt to stay the mothers like a treasure chest. A split second her ♦ in control the blackthorns' allude to Jesus, who were CF- was cruci son may make. her sachi per he Pelt' Suggests she speaks softly and aligns her with domesticity. asso degy her braver mother slowly melting, I was brave, as I walked were subverts those who with you, to the front door, threw. The mothers dissippears, as shown by the composure briefly that it's off to war who are 20 it open, the world overflowing Similie words 'meeting of Sudden movement breaking a bound, the exitement contrasts with his mothers and you were away, intoxicated. sadness, lack of control. After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, - this released a song bird from its cage. Symbolises her son leaving 25 Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, - a symbol of peace but also mourning aqa.org.uk/english-e-library and this is where it has led me, skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy Sewing imagery conveys her making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without anxiety a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves. Battle imagery makes her Sound vulnerable. 39 image 30 On reaching the top of the hill I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone. Symbolises luck The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear 35 your playground voice catching on the wind. 40 4245 English Develop your learni e-Library righlights the painful mages in the Camere Zeels Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) connotations War Photographer metaphorical word/ feeling everked other alone with his distressing memories then it's pricedary meaning. 1 In his darkroom he finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.military/army graves. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass short sentance and biblical light of Something ne Sibilance: is happening. Repitition/alitiration of's He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England, Home again the 10 to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, fields which don't explode beneath the feet magesto lont of running children in a nightmare heat. levelop in eveloping Saind. alt Something is happening. A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes, metsa half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries developing. be Photos GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY connotations of blood shed contrasts with the harsh war. of this man's wife, how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust. memories Stuck with him/metaphore A hundred agonies in black-and-white- 20 from which his editor will pick out five or six- for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where earns his living and they do not care. an illusion to Relligion could. The photo happening Reference. Simile Shows the devotion the photographer has to get these photos. alitiration the Photos Sencory Safety home feeling. cant compare to the Pain of war. Children running & Possibly life. Re-living memories out Ahere casually Bust sad for Whil feeling they book Rhyming cutlets its not very black n white at all. end of innocence and { proting the painful aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 41 Kamikaze 1 Beatrice Garland (b. 1938) of a Journey. this creates the sense but the title suggests that it will be a Journey to his death. Her father embarked at sunrise Japane is Known as the land of with a flack of water, a samurai sword the rising sun so this may be to the in the cockpit, a shaven head this sugests that the pict was 5 and enough fuel for a one-wax,azen were poetic propaganda Kamikazes exposed journey into history Fold that it was a for their country. die but half way there, she thought, recounting it later to her children, -second stanza changes direction - he must have looked far down the plane is still Plying, but it's going to these are the daughters thoughts 10 at the little fishing boats are voice and and explanations - the Piever heard. his real regie pilot should have been ·little fishing boats' that catch his eye. aiming for big enemy ships but it's like the smile is homely and pretty - a Return war. there is no victorions Por strung out like bunting) on a green-blue translucent sea Beautiful image of nature. and beneath them, arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way 15 then the other in a figure of eight, the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies - swivelled towards the sun 46 and remembered how he and 20 his brothers waiting on the shore They were great honour to bullt cairns of pearl-grey pebbles. to see whose withstood longest Ahe turbulent inrush of breakers bringing their father's boat safe for the pilob. flags Plays ore a symboy of national lokentity, Direct something can be used to returisty stop or the repeated sibilant scrinals reflect the of the fish in the hints at the movement of the samure Sword from line 2. which innocent childhood Activities contrast with the pilets was enjambment and lack of childhe ught up in goy my hunt that the Pi punctuation in this stanza memories chidhet hinks pidetts mindset. Repitition of safe' Phocus Switches to the pilots English Develop your learning on ADA, English e-Library S&Library Job. movement memories. Repitition of safe hints at pilers I mindset. Direct speech 25-yes, grandfather's boat-safe to the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel -listing black crabs, feathery prawns, wings he would the loose silver of whitebait and once 30 a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous Sibilance- element of Signals the end (of his life) Story telling GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY And though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes are and the neighbours too, they treated him 35 as though he no longer existed, we hear the daughters voice in direct speech again. She speeks in a more factual. subsequent bout less discriptive and empathy with him. shows her. trony is still treated as he survived. he's dead. only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never retumed, that this 40 was no longer the father we loved. And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. higlights beauty and Significance to the pilot hints their the pilot was changed by his experience aga.org kenglik-a-ibrary 47