lucozade

• Themes

  Family relationships

  Death
• I am scared my mum is going to die


  -shows speakers worry and fear

  -connects mother to flowers, both will die eventually
• Her face is light and radiant, dandelion hours


  -optimistic and without burden

  -metaphor creating sense of lightness but also fragility, meaning the mother has little time
• weighted down


  -metaphorically heavy with sadness and grief

  -she removes the symbols of illness that are burdening her mother
• i carry the orange nostalgia home singing an old song


  -daughter has unburdened the mother

  -‘orange nostalgia’ shows her mothers sickness is now just a memory

  -she is joyful in contrast to the start