GENETICS Flashcards
(13 cards)
My father’s in my fingers , but my mother’s in my palms
use of ceseurea seperates the words father and mother by a comma, general ceseurea throughout emphasises their seperation
possessive pronouns emphasisies the closeness the narrator feels to them
STRUCTURE
-RESEMBLES A DOUBLE HELIX, EMPHASISES DNA AND TOGETHERNESS
I LIFT THEM UP
physically elevates her hands, admiration for parents
i know my parents made me by my hands
body is a product of her parents but not a copy , reinforced by half rhyme
THEY HAVE BEEN REPELLED TO SEPERATE LANDS
SHOWS PHYSICAL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO, WERE INCOMPATABKE
BUT IN ME THEY TOUCH WHERE FINGERS LINK TO PALMS
-nobody is alone in their body
-genetics are evidence of their once togetherness, lives on inside her
-ELEMENT OF AN ATTEMPT TO PRESERVE CONNECTION
who quarry for their image by a river
quarrey- reminiscent of quarrel
also deperate attempt by speaker to physically dig out reminents of their relationship
I SHAPE A CHEPEL WHERE A STEEPLE STANDS
childlike action of shaping steeple with hands, tries to reconcile them with her hands by reconstructing their marriage in her head.
FINGER AND PALMS
differeny but link, show permenant connection
‘MY FATHERS BY MY FINGERS, MY MOTHERS BY MY PALMS’
childlike repetition of hands and palms show desperate attempt to relive this togetherness in childhood
‘my body is their marriage register’
GENETIC PRODUCT IS MORE VIABLE IN EVIDENCING LOVE THAN DOCUMENTS
‘I RENACCT THEIR WEDDING WITH MY HANDS’
desperate attempt to reconstruct the fantasy of togetherness
for mirroring bodies of the future
acknowledges that children are not exact replicas of their parents, but she is not saddened by the history she sees on her palms , a reminder that she can be different from her parents and make her own way
