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1. Objectives By the end of todays lesson you will be able to:
explore the meaning, imagery, tone, structure and language of Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy.
3. The 1950s
4. Content In Buddhism, people believe we choose our parents. We look down watch people on earth. When we find the right parents that will let us progress on our journey, we are born.
In this poem, the narrator goes back in time to 10 years before she is born, and watches her mother.
5. Content Ten years before Duffy was born, Duffys mother was a young girl laughing with her friends, wearing the latest fashions- a polka-dot dress. She stayed out late dancing, even though she knew she would get a hiding. She was rebellious. She was flirtatious with high-heeled red shoes and small bites on her neck. She loved dancing.
Duffy seems to miss the girl she fell in love with as a spirit before she was born as this girls daughter. How has Duffys mother changed?
9. MITSL Analysis Analyse the poem, make notes etc