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Official Poetry AQA GCSE thread - Thursday 23rd may 2013

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With relevance "To a daughter leaving home" we can discern the pivotal theme.The mother is nostalgic - she demonstrates how QUICK her daughter grew up, she employs the session in teaching her daughter to ride as a whole life experience, "wobbled" implies the times, in which the daughter was tentative/uneasy and her mother was there to support her. The bike represents a journey, a journey of a daughter growing up.
The mother is not very specific on her emotions; however the quote "the hair flapping behind you" suggest the mother is facing her daughter from "behind" insinuating she has hidden emotions for her daughter.
"You pulled ahead the curved park" reminds me of someone pulling their car up in a driveway? perhaps passed her driving lesson, seemingly, it does fit in since the daughter is growing up. We assume she leaves to go to university?

"When I taught you" insinuates that the mother taught her daughter on her own, without help - she somewhat feels proud of teaching her to ride a bike.

"To a daughter leaving home" is some what, seemingly, a metaphor to all daughters?

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS ANALYSIS AND WHAT WOULD YOU ADD?

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Flag, the falling leaves and the right word will never be asked about for CONFLICT because they are considered easy BUT you can still compare poems to them so yeah a little stress off your minds :smile: