Poetry Essay - analysing portrayal of relationships with grandparents in "Child with a cause" and "My Grandmother". - page 3
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By Gibbens on 27/02/2008
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 3 of 4 pages: 1 2 3 4
grandparents. The poet has done this so you can really understand how she felt and how angry she was and how much hate she had for her grandfather. I think the poet puts two questions the first one “how dare you child?” questioning her he feels the grandmother is in the wrong not him then he follows it up with “how dare you speak to me like that” which is the grandfather putting her back in her place.
In “My Grandmother” Jennings has used the structure of her poem to emphasise her relationship with her grandmother I think Jennings used a hyphen in the first line because it creates a negative image and makes the reader realise that it is the antique shop that controls the grandmother not the other way round. The antique shop controls the grandmother so strongly she only thought to ask if her daughter wanted to go somewhere once and the daughter refused “and I remembered how I once refused to go out with her” and she has structured it to show the only emotion she felt was guilt of what she once refused. The poet has put a full stop after line 2 in stanza 2 to make you stop and think about how she must of felt when she was only asked to go somewhere once and when her grandmother died she did not feel sad only the guilt of what she once refused her grandmother.
Rhythm and rhyme also show the reader how Andrews felt about her grandparents the rhythm in stanza 1 feels soft and gentle. The description flows in a warm and friendly way. This makes you feel happy and that the grandmother is really nice and that she really likes her granddaughter and the granddaughter feels the same way. But in stanzas 4and 5 the sentences appear shorter and harsher. The rhythm feels cold and edgy. You know that the granddaughter really hates her grandfather “picked clean by anger I ran” they both hat each other a lot and you really feel the bad feelings in the way the poem has been written.
Rhythm and rhyme is used in a similar way in “My Grandmother” to reflect the poets feelings the poet has used rhyme and half rhyme throughout the poem these rhymes create an almost audible image. The tinkle of “glass” and the visual image of shiny “brass”.
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