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Grandpa's Soup
- Contexts of Production
- Poet remembers the soup
her grandpa used to make
and the entimental
importance of it to her.
- It is linked with memories
of her grandpa, and how
no soup will ever match his
- Conveys delight
she has in the soup
but is tinged with
sadness as they will
never have it
- Jackie Kay recalls the childhood
memories she rememebers with
her grandfather in scotland, and we
know how fond she was because
there are no negative memoreis
throughout the poem
- Poet remembers the soup
her grandpa used to make
and the entimental
importance of it to her.
- Structure and Form
- Two main
stanzas- first
talks about the
soup as a
whole, then
moves onto the
grandpa and
the love they
have for him
- First stanza uses little
grammar to separte the lines,
just a dash, question mark
and commas. This allows the
description of the soup to
flow, and how the memories
have come flooding back to
her. She wants the reader to
share these memories with
her, making it ryhthmic and
memorable.
- First stanza uses little
grammar to separte the lines,
just a dash, question mark
and commas. This allows the
description of the soup to
flow, and how the memories
have come flooding back to
her. She wants the reader to
share these memories with
her, making it ryhthmic and
memorable.
- Childish persona
felt throughout,
first person
narrative from a
young child
- Two main
stanzas- first
talks about the
soup as a
whole, then
moves onto the
grandpa and
the love they
have for him
- Word choice and sound
patterns
- Grandpa's soup- use of
possesion tells us it
belongs to him- its the
main focus of the poem
- Bold opening,
emphatic, shows the
childish nature and is
almost a challenge
towards the reader
- 'Diced carrots the perfect
size' Repetition is seen in
this opening, suggesting
again the childish voice
but also to highlight how
perfect the soup is
- Figurative Language: This
shows metephorically how
no one will replace her
grandpa. He was perfect to
her.
- Figurative Language: This
shows metephorically how
no one will replace her
grandpa. He was perfect to
her.
- Metephorical
image show that
the soup is so
unreachable, its
so vast and
incredible- much
like the sea
- Hyperbole used
at the beginning of
the second
stanza, along with
enjambent, shows
how big the love is
that the child has
for the soup and
the grandpa
- 'Och' Gives the
poem a sense of
place and tells us
that they are
scottish
- She wants the reader to know
about the grandpa like she does,
and understand what he was like.
The scottish dialect shows how she
describes him to us
- She wants the reader to know
about the grandpa like she does,
and understand what he was like.
The scottish dialect shows how she
describes him to us
- Strong
memory of
childhood
linked with
the grandpa
and his soup
- Soup remains
prominant, but
the granpa won't
- Ends on a
rhyming couplet
- Ends on a
rhyming couplet
- Grandpa's soup- use of
possesion tells us it
belongs to him- its the
main focus of the poem
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