An Easy Passage- Corpus Flashcards
1
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Corpus’ MAP
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- a plea to hold onto childish innocence
- criticising society for forcing children to grow up too fast
2
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Themes
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- Childhood
- Identity
- Society
- Innocence
3
Q
F/S- sentence structure
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- long: length of childhood
- short: chaotic and fleeting nature of adolescence
- long: stability/ mundane nature of adulthood
4
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F/S- third person narration
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distance, universal experience
5
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F/S- enjambment and free verse
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- misconception of transition to adulthood being ‘easy’
- intimidating and confusing
6
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Language- physical imagery
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over-sexualisation, enforces Corpus’ societal criticism
7
Q
‘on the friend with whom she is half in love’
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- ‘half’: transitionary phase of adolescence, confusion
8
Q
‘what can she know/ of the way the world admits us less and less/ the more we grow?’
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overarching message- society pushes us to grow too fast, yet when we do it become neglectful
9
Q
‘the flush-faced secretary’
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- fricative alliteration: lack of ease apparent in adulthood
- personifies loss of innocence
10
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‘the evening class/ she plans to take, or the trip of a lifetime’
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- cliché: scheduled freedom, still has hope but does not act upon it
- mundane and routine
11
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‘flash of armaments’
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- militaristic imagery: fragility of growing up
- ‘flash’: fleeting nature of adolescence
