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6 Cards in this Set
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"I'm ten years away" "I'm not here yet." "The decade ahead" |
The first three stanzas each start with a reminder of the distance in time between the narrator's birth and her mum's youth and fun |
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"you laugh on" |
The present tense is used to talk about an event in the past. This creates a vivid image and how she is recollecting these memories. |
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"Marilyn" |
Compares her mother to "Marilyn" Monroe- who was a glamorous film star but also committed suicide. This could foreshadow at the unhappiness to come |
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"the fizzy, movie tomorrows" |
Figurative language that suggests energy and exciting possibilities- she may have hoped for a life of a movie heroine. |
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"relics" |
Relics are sacred religious objects from the past- to the narrator her glamour is precious but "ghost" highlights how it's in the past and won't return. |
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"before you were mine" |
Repeating this emphasises the difference between the past and present. It also develops the possessive tone by repeating "mine" |
