Before you were mine

• • Carol Anne Duffy 1993
• • The fizzy, movie tomorrow the right walk home could bring
• • Those high-heeled shoes, relics
• • Each stanza opens with a reference to time
• • My loud possessive yell was the best one eh
• Imagery of streets and pavements 


  creates a personal and nostalgic effect and conveys the mother as streetwise
• Enjambment, caesura and afreeverse

  creates a conversational tone and anecdotal effect
• • Hints a guilt of how her mothers life changed when she was born
• • Speaker has admiration for mother
• Family love/ nostalgia 



  Eden rock, letters from yorkshire and follower