Originally Flashcards
“We Came from our own country.”
Technique: Pronouns plural
Analysis: Shared experience
Sense of belonging
“In a red room.”
Technique: Alliteration
Analysis: Suggests childish memory
Red also symbolises danger.
“Which fell through the fields,”
Technique: Alliteration
Analysis: Suggests a lack of speed or control
“Our mother singing our fathers name to the turn of the wheels.”
Technique: Metaphor for the mother’s optimism
Analysis: Contrasting the children’s reactions to the move.
This is a metaphor for the mother’s enjoyment of the experience
“My Brothers cried.”
Technique: Juxtaposition compared to the mother’s actions in the previous line.
Analysis: Shows their sadness for leaving their home just like Duffy
“One of them bawling home.”
Technique: Contrasting emotion as home is in italics
Analysis:Example of extreme emotion to leaving the gorbals.
“Home, as the miles rushed back to the city.”
Visual imagery as she could be looking out the back window
“The street, the house, the vacent rooms.”
This is a list of what they have left
“Where we didn’t live anymore.”
Use of nostalgia to help the reader relate to the poem.
