time to loose my mind (*☻-☻*)

Out working with a farmer you should be girl instead of getting your head filled with high notions

Mena to sive

Education

Opening

What is she but a school girl … and illegitimate to crown all

Mena to thomasheen

Religion

Stigma of illegitimacy

You will have no enemy when you have the name of money

Mena to sive

Me as manipulation

Money

You will have no name to till you take a husband… You are a bye child

Religion

Menas manipulation

Role of women

The poor tormented child

Liam

Reaction to death

Sive has no wish for it

Mike to mena

Sive doesn’t want to marry Sean dóta

Cherishing all of the children of the nation equally

Intro

Proclamation of the Irish republic 1916

C.C

Sets the tone

Ironic

Furlong had come from nothing

Stigma of illegitimacy

Religion

Stltl

His mothers trouble

Role of women

Pregnant out of wedlock

Religion

Stlt

The only good school for girls in the town

Education

Power

Religion

Stlt

And there was no jigsaw

Poverty

Stlt

They’re all the one

Religion

Power/control

Stlt

The convent was a powerful looking place on the hill … facing the town

Religion

Power

Control

Stlt

It’s no easy task to find a place for everyone

Mother superior

Power

Control

Manipulation

Looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over

Red first impression of Andy

Social class

I believe in two things : discipline and the bible

Warden Norton

Religion

Power/control

Your ass belongs to me

Warden

Power / control

Dear warden you were right salvation lay within

Religion

Irony of the escape

Get busy living or get busy dying

Central theme and feeling throughout film

Hope is a good thing

Andy’s letter to red

Brooks was here. So was red

Red and brooks share similar fate but red motivated by Andy

His child growing up not knowing her daddy

Tommy

Why he wants to do better in life

Feel normal again

Roof scene

Why Andy helped the guard

Not to curry favour

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above

An Irish airman foresees his death

Long vowel sounds that convey a serious tone

The years to seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath of the years behind

An Irish airman foresees his death

Repitition that heightens the sense of despair

In balance with this life, this death

An Irish airman foresees his death

Juxtaposition

He’s unmoved by death and accepts his fate

Airman fights in war for his country/king but his duty contradicts his motivation

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me

The wild swans at Coole

Pathetic fallacy→ somber melancholy tone

Delight men’s eyes when I awake some day to find they have flown away

The wild swans at coole

Rhyme

Since I first made my count I saw before I had well finished

The wild swans at coole

Repition of ‘I’→ makes poem more personal

I will arise and go now

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Repitition of the phrase→ shows longing

Lake water lapping

The lake isle of innisfree

Alliteration→ sense of calm

Relaxed back and forth rhythm

Swash and backwash of waves

Low sounds by the shore

The lake isle of innisfree

Assonance → sense of serenity

Old men … a tattered coat upon a stick … a dying animal

Sailing to Byzantium

Images of Mather ageing body→ poets disenchantment with old age

Stanza 1

Stanza2

Stanza3

… be the singing-masters of my soul

Sailing to Byzantium

Repetition→ emphasises need for an old man to concentrate on the soul

the soul must ‘sing’ and ‘louder sing’ as the body ages

Where the bulb was blown

Alliteration

Poverty

Buying winkles

I envied each soul in the hot interior

Poverty

Buying winkles

Tell yer ma I picked them fresh this morning

Colloquial language

Buying winkles

My mother would spare me sixpence

Sibilance

Poverty

Buying winkles

Heading out for the night

Men

Gender roles

Buying winkles

Little has come down to me of hers … the sting of her hand across my face in one of our wars

Rhyme (abba)

Domestic violence

The pattern

I wore that dress with little grace. To me it spelt poverty

Poverty

The pattern

There’s a photo of her taken in phoenix park… she stares out as if unaware.. the world beyond her already a dream already lost. She’s eight months pregnant

Role of women

Pattern

Gives up dream

The pattern

Tongues of flame in her dark eye she’d say ‘one of these days I must teach you to follow a pattern’

Metaphor

Final words of the mother

The pattern

If I swam like a kite too high … she’d reel me firmly home

Simile

The pattern

I’m net umpire and court most balls are lobbed over my head

Metaphor

Not understanding

Hearth lesson

The flames were blue and pink and green a marvellous alchemical scene

Rhyme

Imagery

Burning of the money by mother

Hearth lesson

Even then I could tell it was money

Poverty causes problems

Child picks up on it

Hearth lesson

“It’s not enough”

Why mother burns money

Poverty

Hearth lesson

Let their names be the wind through the branches let their names…

Repition

Prayer like

Pleading

Prayer for the children of longing

The needle in its track the knife in the back

Rhyme

Betrayal of the city

Prayer for the children of longing

The scream the siren the knock on the door

Harsh imagery

Asks for the city to freeze the sound

Prayer for the children of longing

Here at the heart of winter

Here at the heart of the city

Prayer like

Repetion

Prayer for the children of longing

I didn’t move a finger

Personification

Statue PoV

Couldn’t help someone in need

The statue of the virgin at granted speaks

… number the days to the solstice and the turn back to light

Pathetic fallacy

Shift for ok to make mistake as child

The statue of the virgin at granary speaks

Far from the town tucked up in little scandals

Religion

Church teachings

The statue of the virgin at granary speaks

Stuck up here in this grotto

Statues loneliness

The statue of the virgin at granary speaks

I feel lost unhappy and at home

The Tollund man

Symbolism→ comfort in the violence that reminds him of home and of the “four young boys”

To see his peat brown head the mild pods of his eye-lids

The tollund man

Alliteration(p)

Vivid detail/imagery

Personifies the body

And the bike ticked ticked ticked

A constable calls

Repetition and onomatopoeia

Time bomb/ clock

Unsettling

Tension in the north

Slightly sweating hair… polished holster… shadow

A constable calls

Imagery→ doesn’t pin the blame on anyone

In his slightly sweating hair

A constable calls

Sibilance/imagery

Its fat black handlegrips

a constable calls

Assonance

The colour Reinforces the boys fear

Like a drawn snare

The harvest bow

Simile

Trap activated

Into an evening of long grass

The Harvest bow

Imagery

Nostalgic walk with his father

Hands that aged

The harvest bow

Assonance

Imagery→ the old father

“The end of art is peace”

The harvest bow

Could mean

1. When an artist finishes his work he gets peace from that goal

2. Any artistic project is political

For your step following and damned if I look back

The underground

Imagery

Orpheus and eurydice

Fails to keep deal with hades

Highlights unknowing aspect of marriage

Our echoes died in that corridor

The underground

Personification

Abrupt stop to the chase

Scared of what’s ahead

Eurydice cries in version of the myth

And me me then like a fleet god gaining upon you before you turned to a reed

The underground

Pan and syrinx

Classical allusion

Parallel between the poet and the tale

Then grunts and goes in

The forge

Onomatopoeia

Adds energy and brings the blacksmith to life

Disdain of the modern

Or hiss when a new shoe when toughens in water

The forge

Sibilance

Onomatopoeia

Sounds like hot metal being plunged

Arthur was all white like a doll that hadn’t been painted yet

Child pov

First death

Simile

In the cold cold parlor my mother laid out Arthur

Rhyme

Pathetic fallacy?

Open first death

But how could Arthur go?

Rhetorical question

Suggest begins to understand death

First death

Arthur’s coffin was a little frosted cake and the red eyed loon eyed it

Use of colour

Metaphor

First death

September rain falls on the house

Pathetic fallacy

September dying part of year

Sestina

Watching the tea kettle’s small hard tears

Personification

Child pov

Tears seen throughout

Sestina

But secretly while the grandmother busies herself about the stove the little moons fall down like tears

tears

Can’t appear weak

Sestina

Time to plant tears says the almanac

Sadness common

Tears

Sestina

And the child draws another inscrutable house

Child comfort by art

Sestina

And then he thought he must endure his exile yet another year more

Loneliness

The prodigal

But evenings the first star came to warn

Religious imagery

Personification

The prodigal

He hid the pints behind a two-by-four

Ashamed of being alcoholic

The prodigal

The lantern like the sun going away

Simile

The prodigal

Grim wet and weaponlike hung five old pieces on a line

Military imagery

Endurance

The fish

Tremendous fish

Describes the fish

Spellbound by it

The fish

Everything was rainbow rainbow rainbow and I let the fish go

Moment of epiphany

Repetition

The fish

And greasy sons assist him

Sibilance

The filling station

Draping a taboret (part of the set)

Rhyme

The filling station

Somebody waters the plant or oils it maybe

Humour

The filling station

Oh but it is dirty

Grim/dirty imagery

The filling station

Somebody loves us all

Unseen caring presence

Heartwarming message

The filling station

Good sir why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair

Why does Macbeth jump and seem fearful of good news

Themes→ appearance vs reality, ambition

Thou hast it now, king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t

Soliloquy tells us that he suspects Macbeth killed Duncan

Themes→ change in relationship

And oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths win us with honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence

Warns Macbeth the witches may be evil

Thou shalt get kings though thou be none

Rising conflict

O treachery! Fly good fleance….

Banquo sacrifices himself so fleance can live

For brave Macbeth well he deserves that name

Implies everyone admires Macbeth

O valiant cousin worthy gentleman

Duncan thinks Macbeth is brave and worthy gentleman

Themes→ loyalty kingship

All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee thane of glamis. All hail Macbeth hail to thee thane of Cawdor. All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter

Witches first prophecy

Themes → supernatural ambition