Key Quotes Catrin Flashcards
Typical childhood activity.
Metaphor ‘in the dark with parenting/
‘As you ask may you skate in the dark for one more hour’
Juxtaposed emotions.
‘Trailing love and conflict’
Metaphor for unbreakable bond.
‘Heart’s pool that old rope’
Alliteration.
Listing.
Highlights now she has grown independent.
‘Straight, strong, long brown hair and your rosy defiant glare’.
Conflict is on going.
'’Still i am fighting you off”
Metaphor for cot.
“glass tank”
Much like a mother and teenager.
‘We want, we shouted, to be two, to be ourselves’
Juxtaposed emotions.
‘Wild, tender circles’
Enjambment.
Physically separates lines.
‘Of our struggle to become seperate’
Metaphor to highlight her shouts and screams.
‘I wrote all over the walls with my words’
Physical struggle.
‘Fought over’
Metaphor for umbillical cord, passion, new life.
‘Tight red rope of love which we both fought over’
Alliteration highlights conflict.
‘First fierce confrontation’
Address to her child.
‘I can remember you’
Juxtaposes this image with most important even in life.
‘The people and cars taking turn at the traffic lights’
