moment
Connotations - of sudden life changing suggests a coping mechanism by the speaker to keep image of her mother alive
dance dresses
Alliteration - sounds up beat and energetic reflecting mothers past vitality and youth
turned
Connotations - of a shift, change, irreversible reflecting the fact that an adjustment is required now that the mother is gone
colours they really were/to the colours I image them to be
Contrast - highlighted through line separation showing how memory reshapes identity after death as speakers grief alters her info symbols of her mothers femininity and lost vitality
weight
Connotations- of burden, strain showing that while she is imagining a pleasant version of her mother she still feels the weight of grief
silver shoes/ swinging from their ankle straps as she swaggers
Sibilance - creates a loss, light, fluid sound reflecting her youthful, carefree nature when younger - how the daughter wants to remember her
Connotations (swagger) - of confidence, self assured painting an image of a women in the prime of her life
towards her dad
connotations - of rebellion, breaking rules showing her mother to have vitality and confidence. Links the generations embracing the sad fact of life, we must lose family
‘light-headed/’
Enjambement - creates pause to affect her ditzy nature in that moment again showing a carefree version of her
airman’s kisses
connotations - of romance, flirting alluding to a wilder untamed free side to her contrasting with the sad stillness now
’, at what I’ll have to learn/ to call my father’s house,’
Parenthesis - adds extra info showing the major shift she must adjust to and now death can restructure relationships disorientate loved ones
Enjambement - line break reflects the significant amount of time it will take for her to think this way
Connotations (have) - of necessity she is required to see this way but shows emotional resistant to erasing her mother
ragbag scrap
connotations - of useless, irrelevant suggests others would assume it holds no importance anymore but she is bitter about having to see it this way
duster
connotations - of protection, care these coats were used to protect clothing but now they hand in wardrobe to protect the speakers memories
even more vivid
connotations - of clear bright exceeding expectations - suggests she was already lively but the cloths strengthen the memory
Illford snapshot
connotations - of brief, momentary, suggesting a single picture can’t capture the essence of the women she was as much as the items
some seafront …. exact
sibilance - create breezy fluid tone suggesting the location doesn’t matter as much as the clothing that captured who she was
Contrast (some…exact) - shows she doesn’t know the location and that the dress is the important part as she lived in it so it holds more love
Old lipstick. Liquid stockings.
Minor sentence - could suggest the daughter focusing on every item showing there important or could reflect that the mothers life has been reduced to these objects
Harella, Gor-ray, Berketex
List - of brands could suggest her life has been narrowed down to superficial names or could reflect the generation she come from and her desire to look respectable
manhandle
Connotations - of rough, forceful, no permission suggesting she perhaps feels she has no right to do this or that it is a difficult task for her to do
Whole outfits
connotations - of waste showing how much has been lost and the guilt attached to throwing it away
binbags for Oxfam
Connotations - of new life, second chance - she wants them to have some use and hope her mother will live on through the gesture
every mote in my eye is a utility mark
Metaphor - compares dust in her eyes causing tears to a wartime mark of durability on clothing - suggests this upset is challenging but grief can be useful in building endurances she decides on the suitability of the clothing for Oxfam
the sadness of dispossessed dresses
Sibilance - creates deflated depressed sound to reflect the hopeless ness of her mood
Personification - clothing’s despair mirrors the speakers as she realises there no longer needed
decency of good coats
Personification - could reflect the mothers respectful modest image or their suitability for donation
darkness of wardrobes
Connotations - of isolations, irrelevance - could suggest that while the mother is no longer present her beauty as a person and quite dignity still lively
