IDEAS & QUESTIONS
Mid-Term Break
What is the poem about?
Leaving repetition, family grief negative
connotations, change overall structure – old
and new, naming, transitions foreshadowing,
colloquial, mourning – three types of
mourning symbolism, innocence
juxtaposition, baby laughing – contrast,
images of innocence, life cycle, confusion,
acknowledgement, custom, no specificity,
trauma, time, effects of death, observational
tone is sombre and distance, monosyllabic
words, enjambment – sentence length,
feeling/emotion,
How does it make you feel?
Tone - bitter, empathy, distance sound, last
line – isolates from the rest of the stanzas,
cathartic, sad
How is this poem constructed? How does it
express your ideas?