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Jan 1, 1999 · When Bronte Lawrence reads a letter from a little girl claiming to be her daughter, she knows there has been a mistake. There has—Lucy Fitzpatrick's letter has reached the wrong Lawrence sister!
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Plot. Newly widowed mother Sally Harrison is trying to hold down a job as an assistant to Mr Campbell, a veterinarian. Her children are Simon and Peter, and her aunt Flo lives with them and tries to help.
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’Sonnet 143’ by William Shakespearedepicts the speaker’s relationship through an image of a mother chasing chickens and abandoning her child. In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 143,’ the speaker begins by setting up the simile. He compares the woman he loves, the Dark Lady, to a housewife who gone running after chickens. These chickens, which should be ...
Throughout this poem, Shakespeare engages with themes of love and desperation. He also depicts the speaker’s dependency on the Dark Lady through the mother/son image. Like a newborn child, the speaker demands his mother’s attention. He’s entirely dependent on her, and when she runs from him, he’s inconsolable. By comparing the speaker to a child, h...
‘Sonnet 143’ is a traditional Shakespearean sonnet that follows a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Shakespeare also uses iambic pentameter in this piece. This means that the lines conform to a metrical pattern in which they vary between unstressed and stressed beats. There are five pairs per line. The seventh line is a particularly good example in ‘...
Shakespeare makes use of several poetic techniques in‘Sonnet 143’. These include but are not limited to examples of: 1. Alliteration: the repetitionof words with the same consonant sound. For example, “catch” and “creatures” in lines one and two as well as “flies,” “follow,” and “face” in line six. 2. Enjambment: occurs when the poet cuts off a lin...
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In the first lines of this poem, the speaker sets up a simile. He’s comparing the Dark Lady to a housewife running after “feathered creatures,” likely chickens. These feathered creatures are one of the many ways she gets distracted from her “babe.” In this strange extended simile, the chickens are the Fair Youth, a young man who has had a relationship with the speaker and the Dark Lady. The “babe,” from whom she’s continually distracted, represents the speaker. He’s deeply attached to her, so...
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The next lines continue these strange images. The speaker describes how he, as an infant, chases after the lady while she pursues the chickens. It makes matters worse. The chickens continue to run away from her. She’s going after the one thing that is trying to get away from her while ignoring the person who loves her the most. She doesn’t seem to care about her infant’s “discontent.” This is not an unusual expression of their relationship. Throughout the Dark Lady sonnets, the speaker contin...
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In the last quatrain, the speaker says that he’s been left “afar behind.” She continues to run. He knows that if she catches the one she’s after, the Fair Youth, then perhaps she’ll turn around and be a good mother. Maybe, he thinks, if she can satisfy herself with the young man, then she’ll return to the person who loves her the most. This is a somewhat pitiful plea for attention on the speaker’s part, something that’s common within this series of sonnets. The poem concludes with reference t...
Readers who enjoyed ‘Sonnet 143’ should also consider reading other William Shakespeare poems. For example: 1. ‘Sonnet 39‘ – addresses the speaker’s inability to adequately praise and celebrate the Fair Youth when the two are together. 2. ‘Sonnet 92’ – discusses the fact that the speaker is going to live and die happily because of his relationship ...
May 5, 2016 · Armitage describes a very real scene: a mother and son measuring up a home but we realise it works on another level as well, that of a boy growing up, checking back with his mother, exploring more and more widely.
Sep 5, 2023 · By brainstorming some encouraging words for kids or positive phrases to say to your child, you can start to fill that bucket with love, kindness, positivity, and confidence. The evidence is crystal clear that when kids feel warmth and affection from their parents, this has a life-long impact on them.
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