Confession Mindmap DUFFY !!
- Created by: daltog
- Created on: 11-02-21 11:45
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- Confession
- Structure
- Continues enjambment
- Next to no punctuation which shows how the poem is made up of the persona's stream of consciousness without a pause in her thoughts
- Use of italics throughout convey how the litany that she is repeating
- Tones of sarcastic thoughts towards the ritual
- Separated from the rest of the poem convey how they show her exterior repenting rather than her interior
- Rebelling in the eyes of the Church
- Stream of consciousness
- Childs mind yearning for it to be true and nobody knows (sense of falling away)
- Language could come from the priest
- Omorbidness
- Religion Ao3
- Raised in her parents Roman Catholic faith
- Discovered she became an atheist when she was 15
- Spoken of the influence religion has had on her poetry
- "Poetry and Prayer are very simialr"
- She is still gripped by a heightened sense of the ritual of language
- Embodies Duffy's fears and anxiety concerning Catholic practice and charlatanry
- Intensions
- Expresses her disagreement with people having no choice but to participate in there rituals
- Does seem to respect and except that some people take comfort in these rituals and services
- Believe in an omnibenevolent God that people find comfort within - Link to Faith Healer
- Convey ideas about priests and adults abusing their advantage which goes against the Catholic teaching
- Ironic - this ritual is about forgiveness
- Link to Duffy's loss of belief's in her religion through her maturity (development) and reasoning behind it
- Hypocrisy of human nature
- Supercilious nature of umanity
- Duffy's cynical view on human societies and religions
- Religion is about supporting to guide you not lose you in the process
- Imagery
- "Big" and "Black" box - conveys a child's perception of something which is large and over dominates them emphasising the exploitation. 'Black' connotations of sins and evil
- "Coffin" - symbol of death how relgion is metaphorically suffocating them - Traditional of burial, morbid imagery of death - Coffin would be metaphorical reference to the Confessional box
- "Out with them sins thoese little maggoty things" - Controversial tones, comparing the simile to maggoty things
- "Sins" - decay eating you alive coincide with maggots
- 'Maggots' - linking to rotting of fruit (original sin) Iconography
- Garden of Eden
- "Hansel and Gretel in the ********* wood" - represents false sense of hope as well sense of loss
- Mocks the idea of religion (idea that it is outdated and corrupt
- Irony - the fairy tale is about physical loss which is compared to confession presenting spiritual loss
- Duffy explores how religion can be manipulated and used for the wrong reasons
- Duffy uses imagery in confession to unveil how the Church uses this fantastical language
- The way of control as t places its followers in an inescapable, cyclincal trance
- Black wood - Hansel and Gretel, box and crucifixion
- 'Reach'
- 'Loves you'
- 'Light'
- 'Only'
- Browning / Neruda
- Takes on the stance of Browning
- Writes in the form of a dramatic monologue Neruda influences
- Duffy's surrealistic elements implanted within her poetry
- Themes
- Direct address
- Catholicism
- Church
- Human guilt
- Water
- Biblical references - original sin of Adam and Eve
- Context Ao3
- The means by which God forgives sins after baptism is confession: "If we confess out sins, he is faithful and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness
- "I think now I remain some of my motifs of (my Catholic up bringing) and none of the feeling; faith, guilt, whatever. I do envy people who have a religious faith - I can recall some comfort the sense of a safety net. I still enjoy the sensuality of aspects of the Catholic religion and a lot of the imagery"
- Minor or venial sins can be confessed directly to God but grave or mortal sins, which crush the spiritual lie out of the soul, God has instituted a different means for obtaining forgiveness - the sacrament know popularly as confession, penance or reconciliation
- Perhaps poetry can articulate ordinary peoples feelings and worries and in some small way be a form of consolation or literance for common humanity - very much in that way as a form of unholy prayer - Duffy
- Religion Quotes
- "Mother of God, forgive me, bless me father, for I have sinned"
- "On your knees lets hear your wee voice"
- "In the manner approved"/ "Cross yourself" / "Dont forget"
- "Transgression in the manner approved... Forgive me"
- "For I have sinned"
- Complete idea of 'penance'
- "Come away into this dark cell and tell me your sins to a hidden man your guardian angel"
- "Vinegar and Sponge"
- "You do well to stammer"
- 'White hands'
- Empathises the emptiness and entrapment within the vicious cycle of religious repression
- Critics
- Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion both joy and pain - Elizabeth O'Reilly
- Dramatic monologue in her exploration of different voices and different identities - Elizabeth O'Reilly
- Explores the way in which meaning and reality are constructed through language - Elizabeth O'Reilly
- Links
- Crucifixion
- Biblical refences
- Church's exploitation
- Larkin
- Alternatively childhood trauma
- Context - Further Research
- Could be a contextual reference to Brendon Smyth between 1945- 1989 sexually abused and assaulted 20 children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and USA
- Priests, Decans, Bishops who could have exploited young children
- Hence why, the confession box is classed as 'big' and 'black' coming from a fairy tale driven in the perception of a child's nightmare
- Structure
- Themes
- Direct address
- Catholicism
- Church
- Human guilt
- Water
- Biblical references - original sin of Adam and Eve
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