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    Catrin by Gillian Clarke

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    This poem explores the complex relationship between a mother and her daughter, Catrin, from birth through childhood. The speaker vividly remembers waiting in the hospital room to give birth to Catrin, marking the beginning of their bond yet also their first "fierce confrontation." Their relationship is one of constant struggle as they fight over the "red rope of love" connecting them, with neither able to fully win or lose. Though the daughter now stands defiantly before her mother as an independent young woman, their battles continue as the "rope of love and conflict" remains tightly wound between them.

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    Catrin by Gillian Clarke

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    This poem explores the complex relationship between a mother and her daughter, Catrin, from birth through childhood. The speaker vividly remembers waiting in the hospital room to give birth to Catrin, marking the beginning of their bond yet also their first "fierce confrontation." Their relationship is one of constant struggle as they fight over the "red rope of love" connecting them, with neither able to fully win or lose. Though the daughter now stands defiantly before her mother as an independent young woman, their battles continue as the "rope of love and conflict" remains tightly wound between them.

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    This poem explores the complex relationship between a mother and her daughter, Catrin, from birth through childhood. The speaker vividly remembers waiting in the hospital room to give birth to Catrin, marking the beginning of their bond yet also their first "fierce confrontation." Their relationship is one of constant struggle as they fight over the "red rope of love" connecting them, with neither able to fully win or lose. Though the daughter now stands defiantly before her mother as an independent young woman, their battles continue as the "rope of love and conflict" remains tightly wound between them.

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    Catrin by Gillian Clarke

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    Sanghamitra Gupta
    This poem explores the complex relationship between a mother and her daughter, Catrin, from birth through childhood. The speaker vividly remembers waiting in the hospital room to give birth to Catrin, marking the beginning of their bond yet also their first "fierce confrontation." Their relationship is one of constant struggle as they fight over the "red rope of love" connecting them, with neither able to fully win or lose. Though the daughter now stands defiantly before her mother as an independent young woman, their battles continue as the "rope of love and conflict" remains tightly wound between them.

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    Catrin Commented [SG1]: Subject Matter: The subject of ‘Catrin’

    by Gillian Clarke is the love and constant combat that define


    the relationship between a child and a parent. The poem is
    I can remember you, child, autobiographical in nature as Clarke dwells upon her
    As I stood in a hot, white relationship with her daughter. The poem is focused on
    Catrin, as the title suggests, and exposes Catrin’s resistance
    Room at the window watching to her mother.
    The people and cars taking Purpose: The poet’s purpose is to communicate with her
    daughter her thoughts and feelings about the turbulent
    Turn at the traffic lights. relationship they share while also conveying to her the
    I can remember you, our first underlying love between them. Clarke wishes to expose the
    emotions associated with motherhood, and how mothers
    Fierce confrontation, the tight react as their children grow up and struggle for their own
    identity and independence.
    Red rope of love which we both ...
    Commented [SG2]: Topic: Clarke uses imagery and first
    Fought over. It was a square person voice to reveal the setting and speaker’s state as she
    Environmental blank, disinfected stood waiting in the hospital room before giving birth to
    Catrin.
    Of paintings or toys. I wrote The poem starts powerfully with the speaker’s voice and
    All over the walls with my the theme of memory as a mother waits to give birth to
    her child. Clarke highlights that a mother-daughter
    Words, coloured the clean squares relationship starts even before the child is born through
    With the wild, tender circles the speaker’s powerful memory of the event of waiting in
    the hospital, reflected in her declaration that she ‘can
    Of our struggle to become remember’ her child. Use of past tense in the rest of the...
    Separate. We want, we shouted, Commented [SG3]: Topic: Employing figurative language,
    To be two, to be ourselves. Clarke shows the complexity of mother-child relationship.
    The speaker’s memory of her first conflict with Catrin is
    hinged on the moment of birth.
    Neither won nor lost the struggle Alliterative ‘f’ in ‘first/Fierce confrontation’ and the
    repetition of the ‘f’ in ‘Fought’ depict that a mother’s
    In the glass tank clouded with feelings connection with her child starts with a fight. The
    Which changed us both. Still I am fighting hyperbolic adjective ‘fierce’ serves as a unique
    perspective on the event of birth.
    You off, as you stand there the birth of the baby is shown metaphorically as a battle
    With your straight, strong, long between the baby and the mother over the ‘Red rope of
    love’ where the ‘red rope’ represents the umbilical cord ...
    Brown hair and your rosy,
    Commented [SG4]: Topic: Through metaphorical language
    Defiant glare, bringing up and imagery, Clarke portrays the development of the
    speaker’s complex relationship with Catrin.
    From the heart’s pool that old rope,
    Clarke depicts the confrontations between the speaker
    Tightening about my life, and Catrin through the way the clean, ‘disinfected’ walls
    get filled. While the child fills up the blank walls literally
    Trailing love and conflict, with colours and marks, shown earlier as ‘paintings’, the
    As you ask may you skate speaker does so metaphorically with her ‘words’. Her
    thoughts and feelings about the increasing struggle
    In the dark, for one more hour. between the two individuals are depicted through the
    ‘words’ that she writes. ‘Words’ connote poetry here if
    Clarke is seen to be the speaker. ...
    Commented [SG5]: Topic: Clarke uses shift in time to build
    on the idea that the fierce fight between a mother and child
    that starts at birth continues to the present. She depicts it
    as endlessly confrontational, with neither one ever winning
    the battle.
    Clarke creates the metaphorical setting of the speaker
    and her daughter to be trapped in a ‘glass tank clouded
    with feelings’ to show that their own subjective emotions
    clouded or distorted their vision.
    Their battles were fought in this clouded glass tank.
    Hence, ‘neither won nor lost the struggle’. Clarke also
    shows the impossibility of either the mother or the ...

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