Work Flashcards

(16 cards)

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Purpose?

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  • Critiquing how hard it is for women to balance working with stay at home activities expected upon them.
  • Addressing overpopulation/ globalisation?
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Structure of poem. Sig?

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  • 9 months –> pregnancy?
  • Regular, 4-line stanzas. Monotonous/ repetitive cycle of work for women.
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Language to metaphysically show increase in no. of children.

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  • “one”/ “two”/ “four”/ “ten”/ “thousand”/ “millions”/ “billions.”
  • Increase in no. of children but no men involved!
  • Women expected to do everything!!
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Verbs to describe work woman does.

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  • “washing, ironing, sewing”
  • Present tense: continually with children. Domestic role. Delicate female acts.
  • “toiled, sweated, lifted.”
  • Manual labour.
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Sig of “life was a dream.”

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  • Metaphor for freedom of choice.
  • Could chose whether she wanted to stay at home/ work.
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Farming imagery.

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  • “sewed seeds”, “watered”, “gathered.”
  • Constructive verbs –> adding to world CONTRASTS her taking from it later on!
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Example of cross-rhyme.

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  • “born.”
  • “corn.”
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Motif in anthology

Alcohol.

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  • “alehouse.”
  • Typically masculine job.
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Significance of shift in verbs for work from present to past. Example?

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  • “washing, ironing, sewing”
    BECOMES
  • “toiled, sweated, lifted.”
  • No longer present with her children.
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Sig of enjambement.

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  • Shows exponential increase in number of children.
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Sig of jobs mentioned throughout poem.

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  • Farming.
  • “alehouse.”
  • “factory gates.”
  • Takes on typically-male professions.
  • Shows evolution of jobs: factory jobs –> damaging environment/ critiquing industrialisation.
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Woman adding to the world.

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  • Farming –> constructive verbs used: “sewed seeds”/ “watered.”
  • “Cities grew”
  • “Skyscrapers.”
  • Building infrastructure–> woman do a lot for society but go unrecognised.
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Destructive verbs.

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  • “flogged”/ “ripped”/ “burned”/ “felled trees.”
  • Destroying earth to keep offspring alive.
  • Critique of overpopulation.
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Sig of woman “wept rain”

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  • Put blood, sweat and tears into working for her children.
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Vivid description of woman in grave.

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  • “lay in a grave, worked, to the bone.”
  • Grave isn’t even a rest.
  • Order of words: lay in grave –> worked; still working after death.
  • Metaphor for women working to v. old ages –> beyond retirement.
  • Mother’s sacrifice for children.
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16
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Sig of “90- hour work week?”

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  • Typically 40-hour work week becomes 90 hours with all activities that need to be done as a stay at home mother.