Effects

Question 1

held her hand that was always scarred from chopping, slicing

from the knives that lay in wait

Answer 1

verbs - she is a provider
takes on a stereotypical WC mother role

he feels as if he has damaged her or hurt her in this way - remorseful

Question 2

what type of poem is this

Answer 2

autobiographical poem

Question 3

the general idea of the poem

Answer 3

he points out his disdain for his white WC upbringing but regrets judging his parents

Question 4

scrubbing hard

Answer 4

stereotypical image -

Question 5

what do her hands represent in the poem

Answer 5

her - use of synecdoche

Question 6

only now that she was dead.

Answer 6

caesura - one of only two end stops in all of the poem - emphatic of the finality of death

Question 7

watching soaps
funny foreign stuff
english, bland

Answer 7

cultural divide between the WC mother and the now MC son - he regrets looking down on his upbringing

Question 8

night after night

Answer 8

parallelism - prolongued suffering

Question 9

blinked and poured
gulped and stared

Answer 9

verbs - loss of identity

Question 10

not all the weeks…
not later in…

Answer 10

anaphoric repitition of negators - self criticism - juxtaposes the care the mother provided for him

Question 11

blinked unseeing

Answer 11

motif of sight - suffering and helpless

she is reduced to childlike - needs care - role reversal - he criticises himself for not giving adequate care

Question 12

parenthesis in ,or grew up and learned contempt,

Answer 12

emphatic of his self criticism

Question 13

moans and curses
drooled and swore

Answer 13

emphatic of the uncomfortability of her illness and reinforces her suffering

Question 14

her name on it in smudged black ink

Answer 14

her loss of identity through her illness

Question 15

please don’t leave

Answer 15

direct speech in italics emphatic of her desparation and helplessness

Question 16

but of course I left

Answer 16

argument marker - self criticism

Question 17

a nurse bring the little bag of her effects to me.

Answer 17

end stop - finality of death

final rhyming couplet - sad resolution to the poem

Question 18

irregular patterns of rhyme

Answer 18

confusion or overwhelming sense of emotion - makes it seem more genuine