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6 Cards in this Set
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"I'm ten years away from the corner you laugh on" |
- metaphor of distance - mothers individuality - inevitability of her own physical arrival |
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"Marilyn" |
- youthful energy and flirtation - Comparison - 1950s sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe - Metaphor- glamorous image - symbolic power - one word sentence |
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"The ballroom with the thousand eyes" |
- "Fizzy" effervescent personality - literally dance mirror-ball - infers beauty - everyone looks at her |
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"Your ghost clatters toward me" |
- image- mothers younger self - onomatopoeia - describes sound of stilettos - youthful energy - mothers youthful separate identity |
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"Clear as scent" |
-simile - transience of youth - scent evaporates - connotations of beauty |
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"That glamorous love lasts/ where you sparkle and waltz before you were mine" |
- summery of the poems loving emotion - metaphors convey her mothers dazzling beauty, elegance and zest - alliteration of "l" and "w" - creates a celebratory tone - encampment delight in her relationship - cherishes her "possessive" love |
