Marked with D Revision Flashcards
AQA Paper 2 Revision
What year did Parliament pass the Education Act?
1944
What was Harrison’s father’s profession?
Baker
How might marked with D have been influenced by Harrisons’ two uncles?
One had a stammer and the other was deaf and dumb.
What might the D in the title stand for as well as death?
Dunce or Dumb - how is father felt about his inability to express himself correctly.
What form is the poem ‘Marked with D’?
An autobiographical sonnet
Why might Harrison have written Marked with D as a sonnet/
Because the context surrounds his feelings about his father (more his father’s struggle)
Why use such a regular rhyme scheme and roughly ten syllables per line?
To replicate the relentless battle of his father’s life against a system that had left him ill-quipped.
The title ‘Marked with D’ also links the poem to which nursery rhyme?
Pat-a-cake/Baker’s man (defining his father by his occupation)
What is the effect of the monosyllabic language used throughout the poem?
It sets a matter-of-face/angry tone for the poem.
he _______ all his life’
fuelled
Analyse: ‘fulled all his life’
It highlights the physical nature of his father’s occupation.
Analyse the symbol of ‘cold tongue’
It represents his father’s difficulty expressing himself as well as his death.
From line ten onwards, Marked with D is written in imabic pentameter, expect ‘he hungered’. Why does Harrison break the meter here?
It represents his father’s difficulty fighting against a system if opression. His limited voice can do nothing to further his social position.
the tongue that _______ like lead’ (Marked with D)
weighed
What device is used in ‘the tongue that weighed like lead’? (Marked with D)
simile
