Mossbawn Sunlight
ain Points/Introduction:
Recalling and reflecting his childhood memories (links in with how this is a common aspect with other poems like Digging, Death of a Naturalist). However, unlike these poems the tone is of fondness and nostalgia.
Slow pace and inaction complements the sense of nostalgia and longing.
Time shifts in the form of temporal connectives creates an effect of capturing cherished moements in the past (preservation of childhood memories).
Natural, rural and domestic imagery creates a warm homely image in the reader's mind.
Captures a moment
Deatiled description of the aunt baking portrays the love and attachement in their relationship (mention the dedication here 'For Mary Heaney').
Taken from "NORTH", 1975
Theme 1: Slow passage of time emphasizing the attachment to childhood memories:
'Sunlit absence' is a contradictory phrase (how- explain further) creating an underlying tone of meloncholy.
Description of minute details (examples?) creates a still yet powerful picture in the readers' mind.
'Here is a space' connotes the abscence of love he currently feels heightening the feeling of nostalgia.
Use of simple past tense and free verse shows the desire to go back into the past creating a free flowing image in the readers' mind.
Enjambment in the second stanza shows the flow of thought as the memory is being re-lived and for conveying the idea of the long afternoon.
Ticking of the two clocks- the oven timer and the clock.
Theme 2: Movements and actions within the house:
Inaction outside the house is juxtaposed with the actions of movements inside the house (link with previous theme).
'Now' acts as a temporal connective, seeming like he has almost transported himself in the past and is intently observing his aunt bake.
Transition in tense helps the readers' connect with his feelings of longing.
Kitchen/domestic imagery through detailed descriptions of 'bakeboard and stove' creates an image that he is present there and is fascinated
Recalling and reflecting his childhood memories (links in with how this is a common aspect with other poems like Digging, Death of a Naturalist). However, unlike these poems the tone is of fondness and nostalgia.
Slow pace and inaction complements the sense of nostalgia and longing.
Time shifts in the form of temporal connectives creates an effect of capturing cherished moements in the past (preservation of childhood memories).
Natural, rural and domestic imagery creates a warm homely image in the reader's mind.
Captures a moment
Deatiled description of the aunt baking portrays the love and attachement in their relationship (mention the dedication here 'For Mary Heaney').
Taken from "NORTH", 1975
Theme 1: Slow passage of time emphasizing the attachment to childhood memories:
'Sunlit absence' is a contradictory phrase (how- explain further) creating an underlying tone of meloncholy.
Description of minute details (examples?) creates a still yet powerful picture in the readers' mind.
'Here is a space' connotes the abscence of love he currently feels heightening the feeling of nostalgia.
Use of simple past tense and free verse shows the desire to go back into the past creating a free flowing image in the readers' mind.
Enjambment in the second stanza shows the flow of thought as the memory is being re-lived and for conveying the idea of the long afternoon.
Ticking of the two clocks- the oven timer and the clock.
Theme 2: Movements and actions within the house:
Inaction outside the house is juxtaposed with the actions of movements inside the house (link with previous theme).
'Now' acts as a temporal connective, seeming like he has almost transported himself in the past and is intently observing his aunt bake.
Transition in tense helps the readers' connect with his feelings of longing.
Kitchen/domestic imagery through detailed descriptions of 'bakeboard and stove' creates an image that he is present there and is fascinated