Mr Bleaney
Beth Kemp | Saturday March 12, 2011
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language & Literature A, ELLA4, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Larkin, Whitsun Weddings
This poem is included as a taught poem in the scheme of work, as it could be used for three different questions.
References: “the Bodies” refers to Bleaney’s job making car bodies in a local manufacturing plant (it was a commonly used term in the W Mids in the 50s and 60s); “the four aways” refers to the football pools, suggesting Bleaney was dreaming of a better life.
The persona wonders about Mr Bleaney’s life and thoughts, having taken over the room he occupied.
Links to Duffy/Plath: individual people (Duffy/Plath); voice and persona (Duffy/Plath); isolation (Duffy/Plath)
Lang-Lit points: concrete and proper nouns for detail, metre and rhyme, structure and syntax (shift in tone echoed in changed syntax).
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