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'The Penelopes of my homeland'
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Mind Map on 'The Penelopes of my homeland', created by Jiland Sajonia on 15/11/2015.
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'The Penelopes of my homeland'
Distances - separate things
'of my homeland'
Personal connection throughout
'silent labour'
Lonlyness
'wove their own and their children's shrouds'
Joyless, preparing for death
Contrast, unnatural about weaving own and children's shrouds
'that their colourful future was all in the past'
Contrast - poetic and fanciful
'hopes raised by palm-readers'
Visiting fortune tellers
'and to the just God//who does not allow such nightmares to continue'
Nightmares = killing of all the people
Changing onto a religion
Deluding themselves
'Years and years of raising more Penelopes'
Bringing up another generation just wastes their lives
Language
Repetition
'waiting', 'without'
Contrast
'colourful future'
Alliteration
Hard sounds, harsh reality
'their dream was dead the day it was dreamt'
Monosyllabic
Abrupt reality
Personal pronoun
'my'
Themes
Wasting their lives
Living in a fantasy world
Stucture
6 stanzas
First 2 - working
Middle 2 - growing
Last 2 - dying
Messages
Don't waste your life living for something that could never happen
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