Analyse how using techniques affect your thoughts and/or feelings about a character in the written text(s).
The poem, “Mother any distance” by Simon Armitage, is about a child and his mother. Throughout the poem, we see the relationship of the mother and child naturally develop and change. As the child gets older and becomes more independent he wants to leave the ‘birds nest’. Yet the mother doesn’t want to fully let go. Armitage uses symbolism, metaphor, and rhyme to affect my thoughts and/or feelings towards the mother.
Armitage used symbolism to shape my thoughts and/or feelings towards the mother in the text “mother any distance”. In the first stanza, Armitage uses this technique to show the son’s emotions towards the mother. He goes …show more content…
Despite the child becoming independent he still needs that reassurance that the mother will still be beside him, as he might actually not be ready to do it alone. The hand symbolizes hope that the son will get the help he needs, as he doesn’t want to be unaccompanied by his mother. Yet he still wants to have some freedom which is shown later in the poem. This has an impact on the mother, as every mother struggles to let go. This shapes my feelings with the mother as being a teenager I have days where I don’t want to be alone and need that help from my mother. Every once in a while, we do need days where we need that independence. Through the first stanza, the mother feels wanted and creates that family bond with the son. As the poem goes Armitage creates a contrast “Anchor. …show more content…
In the second stanza, he says in the poem “you at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape” this creates a metaphor for the feelings when the mother and child are connected by the umbilical cord, creating the reader to see as another metaphor his feelings towards his mother. This affected the way I thought of the mother, as the bond is close and they start with a tight connection with one another. The mother has a connection with her child that no one else will be able to have, she just has to trust that he will come back to her when he needs too. This could also be a metaphor as the measuring tape is the child’s life and relationship that develops with his mother through every centimetre. Throughout the poem, there are a lot of metaphors that give the whole poem the feeling that the child is becoming more independent and is exploring, with the reassurance that he is still connects with his mother, no matter what happens. I agree with this, as a child needs to know that they can go and develop and learn, but have that knowledge that they can go somewhere safe. As a result, this metaphor affected my feelings towards the mother as it was a way of showing the connection and the support the son still needs. Armitage ends the third stanza finishing the poem off with “to fall or fly” this is a metaphor of the son stepping out of his comfort zone, around him and his mother’s relationship as well as
The poem, “Mother any distance” by Simon Armitage, is about a child and his mother. Throughout the poem, we see the relationship of the mother and child naturally develop and change. As the child gets older and becomes more independent he wants to leave the ‘birds nest’. Yet the mother doesn’t want to fully let go. Armitage uses symbolism, metaphor, and rhyme to affect my thoughts and/or feelings towards the mother.
Armitage used symbolism to shape my thoughts and/or feelings towards the mother in the text “mother any distance”. In the first stanza, Armitage uses this technique to show the son’s emotions towards the mother. He goes …show more content…
Despite the child becoming independent he still needs that reassurance that the mother will still be beside him, as he might actually not be ready to do it alone. The hand symbolizes hope that the son will get the help he needs, as he doesn’t want to be unaccompanied by his mother. Yet he still wants to have some freedom which is shown later in the poem. This has an impact on the mother, as every mother struggles to let go. This shapes my feelings with the mother as being a teenager I have days where I don’t want to be alone and need that help from my mother. Every once in a while, we do need days where we need that independence. Through the first stanza, the mother feels wanted and creates that family bond with the son. As the poem goes Armitage creates a contrast “Anchor. …show more content…
In the second stanza, he says in the poem “you at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape” this creates a metaphor for the feelings when the mother and child are connected by the umbilical cord, creating the reader to see as another metaphor his feelings towards his mother. This affected the way I thought of the mother, as the bond is close and they start with a tight connection with one another. The mother has a connection with her child that no one else will be able to have, she just has to trust that he will come back to her when he needs too. This could also be a metaphor as the measuring tape is the child’s life and relationship that develops with his mother through every centimetre. Throughout the poem, there are a lot of metaphors that give the whole poem the feeling that the child is becoming more independent and is exploring, with the reassurance that he is still connects with his mother, no matter what happens. I agree with this, as a child needs to know that they can go and develop and learn, but have that knowledge that they can go somewhere safe. As a result, this metaphor affected my feelings towards the mother as it was a way of showing the connection and the support the son still needs. Armitage ends the third stanza finishing the poem off with “to fall or fly” this is a metaphor of the son stepping out of his comfort zone, around him and his mother’s relationship as well as