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Mock IGCSE: How does the poets writing make you feel about the woman and the way she lives?
Overall themes: Entrapment - Loneliness - Insanity
How does the poets language make you feel about the womans life?
- Visual imagery the hawthorn hedge grew wild and high It gives you the image of a castle wall which is
impenetrable and you cant get around it.
- Repetition of long ago twice in the first stanza, and in the fifth stanza last line. It emphasizes that this
happened many years ago and this could have contributed to her madness as she lives in the past and cant
get out.
- Emphasis on she planted the hawthorn hedge to show that she was the one who chose to isolate herself.
- Second stanza, Let him stare, No one is here (short sentences used makes a statement that she does not
want to be found and emphasizes the fact that people from the outside are curious about what is inside.)
- Enjambment from one line of a poem to the next without any pause.
- Draws attention to the word peer in the second stanza and the words to hide behind in the last stanza.
- Caesura (a dash, a pause in a line of poetry)
- The dash makes you think about the words the poets have used in the next line. emphasizes on the words
it was long ago
- The use of the open and closed inverted commas Death and life makes the woman come alive and gives
her voice. There is irony in the word life as she isnt really living her life to the fullest and isnt happy.
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