Kissing by Fleur Adcock Analysis
- Created by: Gemma
- Created on: 21-05-13 21:20
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- Kissing by Fleur Adcock
- Imagery/ Symbolism
- Stanza 1
- River
- Their time
- Their lives
- Their own course
- Nest
- Home
- Interest in living together
- Pretending to be looking at waterlilies
- Wrapped up in each other
- Over there
- In the future
- Mouth to mouth
- Repetition
- absorption
- Forgotten about the nest
- Just thinking about each other
- absorption
- Forgotten about the nest
- Just thinking about each other
- Just thinking about each other
- Forgotten about the nest
- absorption
- Just thinking about each other
- Forgotten about the nest
- 2 people together, no one else
- Selfish love
- absorption
- Repetition
- Clamped together
- Hard to get apart
- Ugly word
- Selfish love
- Riverbank
- Not in river so time has stopped
- Got all day
- Not in river so time has stopped
- Around
- Circles
- Nobody can interfere
- In their own little world
- Circles
- River
- Stanza 2
- There is a time limit
- At this very moment
- Taxis
- Sense of departure
- Stations
- Sense of departure
- Airports
- Sense of departure
- Stations
- Sense of departure
- Leave marks
- Before people die, they want to leave a mark
- There is a time limit
- At this very moment
- Taxis
- Airports
- There is a time limit
- Before people die, they want to leave a mark
- Their hands are not inside each other's clothes (because of the driver)
- More worried about people around them than young people
- Locked so tightly together that it hurts
- The hurt is a mental ache that they are aware that they don't have time
- The hurt is a mental ache that they are aware that they don't have time
- There is a time limit
- Synechooche
- Part of a whole
- The writer gives half a picture to give a whole picture
- Stanza 1
- Overall Message
- Young people have all the time in the world.
- Older people are rushed
- Old people can still be sexual and sensual
- Young people have a future
- Older people also 'clamp' together
- Old people are very conscious of people around them
- Poetic Devices
- No rhyming scheme
- There are very few harsh sounding words
- e.g clamped
- More softer sounds
- e.g waists, shoulders
- Imagery/ Symbolism
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