Where I Come From - Poetry Analysis - Elizabeth Brewster
- Created by: mrabomar
- Created on: 17-05-15 09:30
View mindmap
- Where I Come From
- structure
- 3 stanzas
- free structure
- uneven length
- no rhyme scheme
- to disrespect organization in the city
- indentation
- second stanza made to follow the first
- to show how a rural area is continuation of an urban area, but is still different
- to show that each area depends on the other
- rural provide raw materials
- urban sell tham as goods
- to show that each area depends on the other
- change from third person to first person to make a more abrupt change
- not very intense change as 'I' is only used once in the whole poem
- this change is only notable in the first verse
- the rest of stanza 2 is description
- this change is only notable in the first verse
- not very intense change as 'I' is only used once in the whole poem
- to show how a rural area is continuation of an urban area, but is still different
- third stanza is not a continuation of second one
- author's personal ideas about her childhood
- second stanza made to follow the first
- 3 stanzas
- stanza 1
- "people are made of places"
- author gives her theory of the world
- people are formed by their past
- they carry the places they have lived in with them
- people are formed by their past
- the author is focusing more on physical aspect not moral
- author gives her theory of the world
- "hints of jungles and mountins, a tropic graced, or the cool eyes of sea gazers"
- exotic examples compared to later description of the city
- "smell of smog or the almost-not-smell of tulips in the spring"
- smog has no smell
- absence of smell of nature
- tulips have a natural scent
- covered by smog
- smog has no smell
- absence of smell of nature
- smog has no smell
- covered by smog
- comparing smells of nature and city
- smog has no smell
- "nature tidily plotted in little squares"
- as though plotted too be attacked by hummans
- humans try to control nature although it isn't meant to be tidy
- negative images of all man-made things
- "people are made of places"
- stanza 2
- from impersonal to personal
- mind and memories of author
- nature is in contrast to man-made items
- sense of exotic nature quiet and loneliness
- lack of organisation
- chicken's movement
- although they have a chance of freedom they choose to circle
- free animals and plants
- chicken's movement
- negative side of nature
- chickens' aimless movement and clucking
- chicken's movement
- although they have a chance of freedom they choose to circle
- chicken's movement
- broken down place
- schoolhouses, farmhouses etc
- "behind which violets grow"
- nature has taken over
- "behind which violets grow"
- schoolhouses, farmhouses etc
- chickens' aimless movement and clucking
- "spring and winter are the mind's chief seasons
- now focusing on author's thoughts
- longest seasons in Canada
- correspond to birth, rebirth and death
- reinforced by the idea of "ice and breaking of ice"
- life and breaking of life
- reinforced by the idea of "ice and breaking of ice"
- from impersonal to personal
- stanza 3
- snow is loved in Canada
- memories of childhood
- Elizabeth Brewster
- born August 26 1922 in canada
- died December 26 2012 in canada
- born August 26 1922 in canada
- structure
Comments
No comments have yet been made