View of Scotland/ Love Poem

• "Mother still giving it elbow grease"

  - word choice

  - suggest the mother is hard-working as elbow grease connotes scrubbing.

  - Displays the mothers determination to get the house clean for new years

  -reflects the importave she feels to uphold tradition of cleaning your home before the bells and L TO Q
• "(This is too ordinary to be nostalgia)"

  - parenthesis

  - shows that despite the poem being a reflection, speaker does not want it to be overly sentimental to reflect
• " Mums got her rollers in with weaveset"

  -narrative voice

  - speakers exact description paints picture of her mother getting all dressed up for the occasion

  - this links to the mothers determination of upholding traditions likemaking a good impression new years

  -relfects the L TO Q
• "Dangling calendar"


  - symbolism

  - New calendar is a symbol of looking forward which reflects speakers eager to move forward
• "Thirty years since"


  - theme of shift in time

  - this introduces the following stanza to be thirty years on from the previous memorr

  - this instant shift suggests time moves quicker the older you get and reflects...
• "- and two already since"


  - dash

  - used to introduce a further shift in time to the present day which suggests it is two years since she met her husband

  - this idea of time effectively skipping two years relays the idea that time flies when you are in love
• "Familiar strangers"


  - oxymoron

  - these contradictory words suggest that the people we learn to love were all once strangers which reflects she was not expecting to meat the lohl at the party

  - reflecting
• "Steak pie like quilts on a double bed"

  - simile

  - just as quilts add comfort and warmth so to was the food therecomforting also

  Reflects the fondness of memories