THE WAY MY MOTHER SPEAKS

• • "I say her phrases to myself"
  • first person narration makes it personal and shows the speakers actions
• • "The day and ever"
  • repetition mimics her mothers soothing words
• • "too blue swapped for a cool grey"
  • blue connotates to the sun, warmth and comfort and contrasts with cool grey suggesting misery, col, and uncertainty
• • "What like is it."
  • conveys her inner voice is linked with her mothers, she has made an impact in her life
• • "The day and ever"
  • repeating like a comforting voice, her mother sooths her
• • "I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks"
  • she misses her childhood, her past, her mother, yet still feels free to become her own person
• • "green, erotic pond"
  • metaphor links to growing up, green suggests naivety while erotic is more of an adult theme