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