Not yet my mother owen sheers analysis

  • The poet saw himself in the photograph of his mother.
  • Yesterday I found a photo of you at seventeen, holding a horse and smiling, not yet my mother.
  • Select two or three moments from the poem to think about in more detail - could be a particular line/word (first word 'yesterday' for example), or even an.

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    English literature: Unseen poetry

  • 1. Unseen Poetry • Still I Rise • NotYet My Mother • BeforeYou Were Mine • A PoisonTree • Envy • If I couldTell you • The Great Storm • Spared

  • 2. Key points to remember when analysing poems THE CONTENT OF THE POEM: What is the poem about? Write a few sentences summarising the poem; stating what you think the poem may be about. Be sure to remember to work with the poem chronologically (top to bottom). THE IDEAS THE POET MAY HAVE WANTED US TO THINK ABOUT: Are there any specific themes that stand out to you when you’re reading this poem? Is there something that is repeated throughout the poem? Could this be a theme? What relevance do you think this theme has? THE MOOD, ATMOSPHERE AND TONE OF THE POEM: Is there a particular tone in the poem? Is it happy, sad, jolly, sombre? Is the poem monotone? HOW IS THE POEM WRITTEN? Are there any poetry devices present? Be sure to look for metaphors, similes, alliteration, rhetorical questions and rhyming coup
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    Most of the poems have been written from first person's point of view and Owen Sheers has shared his own life experiences in his poems e.g. Trees, Not Yet My Mother, but a few poems have been written from vantage point e.g. Mametz Woods.

    The poems have been written in free verse and irregular meter.

    The metaphor of 'trees' has been employed for children and the 'breeze' is a metaphor for destruction. The metaphor of "setting" has been used for death while the metaphor of "rising" has been used for life. In the poem "Mametz Wood", the metaphor of 'a wounded human body' has been used for the earth after the battle, the metaphor of "broken mosaic" has been used for the bones of the soldiers while the simile of 'crushed bird's egg' has been used for the tampered skull, the simile of' paper notes' has been used for the broken bones and

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    An interview with Owen Sheers

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    Well 'Dw i'n dod o Gymru yn wreiddiol' - which means 'I am originally from Wales' - so uppenbart Wales played an important part in the background of my writing inom think, in that it was where I was brought up, it was where inom first met an awful lot of elements of the world. It was certainly where I met an awful lot of the natural world because I was brought up in, well, outside a small by. I think in many ways that was more important than the fact it was Wales. That said, inom think inom was very lucky in that poetry is still perhaps a slightly more natural medium in Wales than it is in certain other countries. All of that said, inom suppose I've never been too fond of the idea of writers being limited bygd their borders - you know one of the reasons that I write, one of the reasons I love writing, fryst vatten that it can go further than any border, any boundary so inom tend to describe myself as a writer from Wales, rather than being a Welsh writer. inom guess where I