Text 4 Grandpa's Soup
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- Created on: 03-04-15 12:01
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- Text 4 Grandpa's Soup
- Graphology
- One line stanza at the end shows remembrance of Grandpa
- Irregular length of stanza shows age of narrator
- First stanza lower case shows age of narrator
- Grammar
- Uncomplicated grammar which emphasises the age of the narrator
- Line 11 starts and ends with colloquial tone which makes it less formal
- One word sentence
- Phonology
- Repetition of Grandpa and Soup emphasises the things he likes
- Rhyme 'Hoch' 'Loch' used to create rhythm
- Lexis
- Scottish dialect
- Mostly aggressive idiolect
- Similes show childlike imagery
- Rhetorical Question makes reader think of own childhood
- Context of production and reception, and attitudes and values
- Family relationships
- Sense of loss
- Published in 1998
- Jackie Kay grew up in Scotland
- The soup acts as a metaphor for remembrance
- Purpose, Audience and Form
- To examine family relationships and loss
- Scottish Poetry fans
- Poem
- Graphology
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