Litany
Beth Kemp | Tuesday March 29, 2011
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.
References: a litany is a formulaic prayer which lists a number of elements, usually with some kind of refrain for the congregation to repeat at regular intervals.
The persona remembers playing at her mother’s feet while her mother talks to her friends, and one particular day when she repeated a swear word in front of this group of women and was pubished.
Links to Plath/Larkin: childhood (Plath), religion (Larkin/Plath), family (Larkin/Plath)
Lang-Lit points: lists; semantic fields of consumer goods, language and taboo subjects; metaphors and similes, interesting verbs.
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