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Paula Meehan

Paula Meehan quotes and themes

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Name five main themes in Meehans poetry. Strength and power of women, poverty and hardship, family, social justice and nature and spirituality.
Name the central themes in 'Buying Winkles' poverty and hardship, strength of women, community and childhood.
Name four key quotes in 'Buying Winkles' "I'd bear the newspaper twists/bulging fat with winlkes/proudly home like torches" "I'd dash from the ghosts/on the stairs where the bulb had blown/.....all relief" "I envied each soul in the hot interior" "wave up to women at sills"
Name the poetic techniques in 'Buying Winkles' and give an example. alliteration- "winlkes would be wet", "tanner tight Personification-"slither him out" sibilance-"strip of sky" hyperbole-"pram loaded" assonance-"glisten blue like little night skies themselves"
Name the central themes in 'Hearth Lesson' Strength of women, poverty and hardship, childhood,
Name four key quotes in 'Hearth Lesson' "brooding silence and the particular hell of the unsaid" "'It's not enough' she stated simply./And we all knew it wasn't" "raise her airs and graces/...mental state of her siblings,/every last one of them" "she'd/has the last, the astonishing word"
Name the poetic techniques in "Hearth Lesson" and give an example. Personification-"shadows jumped floor to ceiling" similie-"cinder to chimney breast/like trapped exotic birds" metaphor-"thunderbolt", "killing glance" sibilance-"she stated simply"
Name the central themes in 'Prayer for the children of Longing' community, hardship, social injustice, family, nature and spirituality
Name four key quotes in 'Prayer for the children of Longing' "one moment to freeze/The scream, the siren, the knock on the door" "streets that defeated them/that brought them to their knees" "streets../..that promised them everything..delivered nothing" "Here at the heart of winter/Here at the heart of the city
Name the poetic techniques in 'Prayer for the children of Longing' and give an example. sibilance-"scream..siren" enjambment-"hear/The song of the children of longing" personification-"The streets that blew their minds" rhyme-"needle in its track/ The knife in the back" repitition-"Let their names../Let their names../ Let their.."
Name the central themes in 'The Pattern' strength of women, chilhood, poverty and hardship, family
Name four key quotes in 'The Pattern' "might have made a new start/...without tags like mother, wife/sister, daughter" "solemn as planets/in an intricate orbit around her" "'One of these days I must teach you to follow a pattern'" "'..be over my dead body anyone harms a hair on your head'"
Name the poetic techniques in 'The Pattern' and give an example ryhme-"a wedding band/....the sting of her hand" assonance-"high shine" alliteration-"catch her own face coming clear?"
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