Poetry Essay - analysing portrayal of relationships with grandparents in "Child with a cause" and "My Grandmother". - page 2
Keywords: Looking at Specifics
By Gibbens on 27/02/2008
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 2 of 4 pages: 1 2 3 4
dare you speak to me like that child” the grandfather is very angry with his granddaughter for stepping out of place.
‘My Grandmother’ is about a daughter who felt no grief when her grandmother died “only the guilt of what she once refused” because her grandmother was more interested in her shop and she only offered to take her daughter somewhere once.
Language is used to make the antique shop sound like a very boring place there is no love there only polish “polish was all, there was no need for love” It is very boring in there because and old stuff is all that is in there “the faded silks, the heavy furniture”.
It is also used to reflect the poet’s relationship with her grandmother it says, “she kept an antique shop-or it kept her” this shows that there is no love between them and that her grandmother is more interested in the shop than her granddaughter and this lack of understanding meant that when her grandmother died she felt no grief what so ever.
I am now going to look at how sound devices in “My Grandmother” the poet has done this to show how she didn’t feel any emotion when her grandmother died she has deliberately placed full stops in certain places to make the reader understand why she felt no sorrow when her grandmother died she only “felt guilty of what she once refused”. In stanza one sibilance is used “spoons”, “silks”, “salvers”, “silvers” these are very gentle sounding and create a sad atmosphere of melancholy, which the author does not feel. The poet has done this to make the reader feel the sorrow that she did not feel herself. In stanza “3” assonance has been used “narrow, room, too” this gives it a long droning sound making it sound very slow and boring as if the writer is uninterested in all the old things we realise that the author had no interest in any of the old things that her grandmother owned and that there is no emotion about her grandmothers death.
The structure of Child with a cause” also emphasises what Andrews relationship with her grandparents was like in 5 of its 6 stanzas Andrews uses the word I in the final line I think Andrews does this to show how she felt and to emphasise how she felt about what happened between her
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