PRESENTATION OUTLINE
14 lines end stopped lines and enjambment
verse=free
stanzas=Italian sonnet
End rhyme
Imagery
"Gleaming in a bucket of water"
Symbolism
"I was all hers as we peeled potatoes"
Simile
“They broke the silence, let fall one by one
Like solder weeping off the soldering iron:”
While reflecting on his relationship of him and his mother at her deathbed, the speaker's closest moment with his mother was when he was doing the simple task of peeling potatoes with her as a child.
Related Song:A Song For Mama by Boyz 2 Men
Heaney, Seamus.
"from Clearances."
Reading the World: Contemporary Literature from Around the Globe. Ed. Carol Francis. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning 2012. eBook.
