Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Duffy, Mean Time
This poem is included as a taught poem in the scheme of work, as it could be used for three different questions.
The persona imagines her mother in the time before she was born, and into her childhood, imagining her mother as bolder, more interesting before she became a mother.
Links to Plath/Larkin: individual people (Larkin/Plath), narrative voice and persona (Larkin/Plath), family (Larkin/Plath)
Lang-Lit points: address, use of tense, similes and metaphors.
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