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Mind Map by English GCSE, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by English GCSE
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Hour - Carol Ann Duffy - MindMap
- Sonnet form
- Shows that it is a traditional love poem - sonnets are
predictable could suggests love and relationships are
predictable
- Shows that it is a traditional love poem - sonnets are
predictable could suggests love and relationships are
predictable
- Money - Love
- Poem has lots of images of money but also of love
and the ideas contrast - love doesn't need money
- Puns - "spend it not of flowers" - don't spend their money or
time on clichés - their relationship is special
- Puns - "spend it not of flowers" - don't spend their money or
time on clichés - their relationship is special
- Poem has lots of images of money but also of love
and the ideas contrast - love doesn't need money
- Cliches
- The poem discards normal romantic images and instead
replaces them with untraditional images - i.e. "flowers" with
"grass ditch"
- The poem discards normal romantic images and instead
replaces them with untraditional images - i.e. "flowers" with
"grass ditch"
- oxymorons
- "thousands of seconds we kiss" - thousands suggest lots but
seconds is a very small amount of time - suggest that when
their together even little time is lots
- "thousands of seconds we kiss" - thousands suggest lots but
seconds is a very small amount of time - suggest that when
their together even little time is lots
- Time
- Time is obviously very precious to the poet as it is
referred to a lot and even in the tile - could suggest they
don't have much time together - death or forbidden love
- Time is obviously very precious to the poet as it is
referred to a lot and even in the tile - could suggest they
don't have much time together - death or forbidden love
- Contrasts
- rich and traditional ideas are contrasted in the poem
i.e. "flowers" and "grass ditch" and "gold" and
"straw" these emphasise these words and make
their personal experiences more precious than
traditional ones
- rich and traditional ideas are contrasted in the poem
i.e. "flowers" and "grass ditch" and "gold" and
"straw" these emphasise these words and make
their personal experiences more precious than
traditional ones
- Light
- the images of light in the poem -
"candle" "shining hour" "Midas
light" give a sense of perfectness,
happiness and optimisum - these
are only when they are together
suggest they are only happy
together
- the images of light in the poem -
"candle" "shining hour" "Midas
light" give a sense of perfectness,
happiness and optimisum - these
are only when they are together
suggest they are only happy
together
- Single-word sentence
- in the final stanza there is a sentence with
only one word "Now." - suggests they only
need now the past and future don't matter
- in the final stanza there is a sentence with
only one word "Now." - suggests they only
need now the past and future don't matter
- Fairytales - dark latent
meaning
- the images of fairy tales - rumplsitlskin
and king Midas suggest there is a dark
undertone - fairy tales always have bad
parts/someone trying to stop them
- the images of fairy tales - rumplsitlskin
and king Midas suggest there is a dark
undertone - fairy tales always have bad
parts/someone trying to stop them
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