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10 years before the speaker was
born
Create an image of a happy care
free mother and friends
Pattern and fashionable imagery

I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on
with your pals, Maggie McGeeney and Jean Duff
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Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs
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Written to sound as if
she is the reader is
speakers mother
Connotations that speaker
mother was sexy, glamourous
and lived a lavish lifestyle

Repetition of ‘I’m’ suggest the
speaker is trying to insert their
presence into the picture

I’m not here yet
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I knew you would dance
Metaphor for a glitter ball
like that
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You reckon it’s worth it
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‘mine’ shows that they
cherish their mother

Rule of the speaker interrupts the
mood with these nostalgic memories
creating a discarded mood
...
this tells the reader
that the speaker is looking back at
memories of when their mother
was young

The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics,
Shoes and fashion link to the
first stanza
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Even then
I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello, somewhere
in Scotland, before I was born
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Rule of 3 (youth) the poem begins
and ends in the ballroom because
that was memory the speaker
loved most

Context:
The poet Is talking about her
mother as a teenager
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This
was written as the poet wished
she knew her mother before she
was born
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Also suggest
that the mother was popular with
the boys and gives hint to first love

Almost as if the speaker is
telling the mother this is who
she was before they were
born

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