https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c en-us 2017-02-21 11:04:56 UTC 2025-12-02 16:29:31 UTC hello@padlet.com hlagar7 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155105722 2017-02-21 11:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155105722 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107543 The fragmented sentences give the idea of 'stopping to think']]> 2017-02-21 11:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107543 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107763 Anadoplesis- 'Where is the thing? The thing, you know,' emphasises the father's lack of vocabulary ]]> 2017-02-21 11:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107763 hlagar7 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107768 Flynn and Thorpe explore the effects of ageing in their poem's through the use of structure. In the poem ideas run from stanza to stanza, presenting a stream of consciousness. This could show how the persona's father's thoughts are constant and jumbled. Furthermore, the poem is written in present tense, which demonstrates how his thoughts are never in the future as he is preoccupied trying to comprehend the present. This is similar to how in On Her Blindness, the repeated enjambment across the lines/stanzas demonstrates his mother's disorientated feeling as a result of her impairment. ]]> 2017-02-21 11:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107768 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107952 Stanza 2: 'shore', 'small', 'starts', 'swept' - soft sibilance makes it sound like the shore - calm and peaceful like the father's previous life]]> 2017-02-21 11:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155107952 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155108087 Link to On Her Blindness- passive narrator looking upon the breakdown of a relative 
Repeated enjambment in both poems across both lines and stanzas – disorientating effect to mirror how the sufferer feels]]> 2017-02-21 11:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155108087 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155109506 My Father's Language and On her Blindness both revolve around strong sensory imagery. MFL, "first memory, then language" - the first word being a mile stone. On her Blindness has quite prominent visual imagery which is ironic. "The autumn trees" "ablaze with colour, the ground royal" - colour imagery.]]> 2017-02-21 11:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155109506 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155110084 The past tense used in On Her Blindness suggests the problem is in the past and has been resolved along with the final one line stanza. The present tense in my fathers language suggests the on-going struggle and the structure which is repeated throughout also alludes to this.]]> 2017-02-21 11:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155110084 hlagar7 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155110749 Both poems also show the effects of ageing through their use of language. Both poems use colloquial language throughout the poems; in On Her Blindness, this is demonstrated in "I'd bump myself off" and in My Father's Language this is shown in "'fatty plagues'" and "thing, you know, for the thing". This drop of register shows the effects of ageing as the persona's parents drop to a more relaxed lexicon, as if they are too preoccupied with their situations to think of better words to say. Both parents are reduced to an almost child-like register, as they are helpless to the effects of ageing and their illnesses]]> 2017-02-21 11:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155110749 https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155111177 In both poems liminality is shown between life and death. The loss of a sense in On Her Blindness and the loss of memory in My Father's language suggests the liminality]]> 2017-02-21 11:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hlagar7/z1pff0bzaj5c/wish/155111177