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Description
Mind Map by anna.coughlan.12, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by anna.coughlan.12
over 12 years ago
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Brothers
- Structure
- recount three stages of the afternoon
- recount three stages of the afternoon
- Imagery
- negative feelings the speaker has for his brother, as
if he is an inconvenience, restricting the freedom
- feelings of the characters in the poem are
revealed through the choice of verbs
- enthusiastic spirit of the younger brother
reflects his pride and excitement at being with
the older brother he clearly worships
- older children lack the outward enthusiasm of the younger boy,
but then they are ""doing what grown-ups do""
- older children lack the outward enthusiasm of the younger boy,
but then they are ""doing what grown-ups do""
- third stanza makes it clear that the older boys are still children
- ""chased Olympic Gold"" when running for the bus, a metaphor for
competitive natures that they cannot help
- ""chased Olympic Gold"" when running for the bus, a metaphor for
competitive natures that they cannot help
- negative feelings the speaker has for his brother, as
if he is an inconvenience, restricting the freedom
- Attitudes, themes and ideas
- aspiration to be older
- reflecting the naively superior
feelings of the older boys
- reflecting the naively superior
feelings of the older boys
- childhood feeling of
superiority is later
regretted
- final image suggests the
loss that the speaker
feels at not being closer
to his brother
- final image suggests the
loss that the speaker
feels at not being closer
to his brother
- Brothers is about the
inevitability of the boys' distant
relationship; in the poem they
are physically separated, and in
life they are metaphorically
separated by time.
- aspiration to be older
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