AQA GCSE Poerty Havisham
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_Phwoarrr_ on May 17, 2008
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carole ann duffy
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Based on a | Character from Great Expectations |
| structure of poem | "heart" at beginning and end, sweet of the heart is broken off |
| "puce curses" | synaesthetic - see days of the week in colours - disturbed mind |
| "ropes on the back of my hands i could strangle with" | aging of her hands - in GE estelles mother was a murderer through strangling |
| enjambement | represents the mind becoming fragmented |
| "give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon" | necrophilia |
| "Beloved sweetheart bastard" | oxymoron |
| Reader | dramatic monologue |
| "Bang" | alliteration |
| "Some nights better" | hardening of the soul |
| "The dress yellowing, trembling" | describing the dress as herself like macbeth when she see the hand as not his |
| "dark green pebbles for eyes" | image - green = jealousy, "hard" = heart, "pebbles" = loss of feeling |
| "slewed mirror" | distorted image of herself |
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