Maiden name Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
What are the 2 ideas within the poem?
A
- critiquing her for the loss of her identity
- mourning her past self
2
Q
1 - ‘maiden name __’
A
disused - end of her identity
3
Q
1 - ‘it’s five light __’
A
sounds - syllables = lost of her past name
4
Q
1 - ‘thankfully __’
A
confused - oxymoron = foolishness
5
Q
1 - ‘lying just where you __ it’
A
left - personification = previous identity that she abandoned, was a lie
6
Q
1 - ‘scentless, __, strengthless’
A
weightless - repeptition of ‘less’ suffix = she is less to who she was before
7
Q
2 - ‘how __ you were, and near, and young’
A
beautiful - listing = mourning who she once was
8
Q
2 - ‘__ again’
A
unfingermarked - virginity + photographs - idealising who she was + unrealistic
9
Q
2 - ‘depreciating __ laden’
A
luggage - alliteration = burden of marriage
