Memorial Flashcards

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Everywhere she dies

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Metaphor: people can’t literally die everywhere

Present tense - he’s not moved on, it keeps happening for him

Death changes everything, no escape

His life is affected in Everest and her death impacts a lot of people

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2
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Everywhere I go she dies

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Repetition to emphasise the fact that it keeps happening, grief is always there

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3
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No sunrise

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Nothing beautiful

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No city square

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Nothing lively or busy

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5
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No lurking beautiful mountain

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No is repeated to emphasise the fact that there is no place he doesn’t think about her

He is always thinking about her

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But has her death in it

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He can’t do anything without thinking about her and feeling the pain again

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The silence of her dying sounds through

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He will never hear her voice again

Shows the emptiness of his life

Paradox

All he can hear is the silence in his life where she would have talked

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The carousel of language

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Metaphor for people talking and their conversations going round and round like the fairground ride

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It’s a web

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Sticky

Intricate

Detailed

Complex

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10
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On which laughter stitches itself

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Laughter is trapped in the web that is death so it is no longer in his life

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11
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How can my hand clasp another’s

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Not moving on

Death has frozen life

Seems impossible to relate to others

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Thick death

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Word choice

Huge and smothering

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13
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Intolerable distance

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Gap between light and death

Can’t bridge gap

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She grieves for my grief

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She is selfless, she’s not scared of dying she just doesn’t want him to be sad

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15
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Grief

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Processing feelings of sadness when someone dies

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16
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That bird dives from the sun, that fish leaps into it

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Painkillers are making her say buzzard things

She’s remembering seeing that

She can see it from her window

17
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Crocus

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Purple flower that is yellow in the middle

18
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Her dying shapes my mind

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Gradually her death changes the way he sees things

19
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Other words

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Change of tone, trying to look at it differently

Consoling words from his friends and family

20
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Black words

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Words of illness and death

Funeral colour

Mourning and grieving

21
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She grieves for my grief. Dying, she tells me 
That bird dives from the sun, that fish
Leaps into it. No crocus is carved more gently 
Than the way her dying 
Shapes my mind - but I hear, too,
The other words,
Black words that make the sound 
Of soundlessness, that name the nowhere 
She is continuously going into
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This stanza contrasts beautiful life - bird, sun, crocus -

and the darkness of death - black words, nowhere, soundlessness

22
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Soundlessness

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Echoes silence from earlier

23
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Nowhere

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Hell, heaven, afterlife

24
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Continuously

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Links to everywhere

25
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Ever since she died

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Past tense

26
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She can’t stop dying

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Hasn’t let her go yet

27
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Elegy

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Family member speaking at a funeral

Speech used to remember someone

28
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I am a walking masterpiece

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Masterpieces are created to convey messages of meaning

Metaphor to compare himself to a work of art created in remembrance to her

29
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Ugliness

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His pain and suffering

30
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I am her sad music

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The person left behind becomes the memorial

His feelings and memories are a memorial to her