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FOR HEIDI WITH BLUE HAIR (Themes: (Solidarity and friendship,…
FOR HEIDI WITH BLUE HAIR
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Literary Devices:
Alliteration
“From your freedom-loving father”
shows emotional charge, emotions repeated
Irony
“Not done in the school colours”
showing how society looks for any excuse so that differences can be get ridden off.
Enjambment
Connection between stanzas 1 and 2, showing different tones in each one
Author: Fleur Adcock, she was born on February 1934 in New Zealand, but she lives in England.
Main quotes explained
“The battle was already won”
This word “battle” may suggest an internal fight, of Heidi against her mother’s death. This battle is won by realizing how loved she is, because she found friends support and his father’s attention during the fight she faced. As an external interpretation it may be that she has already get want she wanted, and that she would stop fighting and was her hair
“Tears in the kitchen, telephone calls to school”
The fact that tears are mentioned shows that there were feelings behind the rebellion, this shows the cause of the situation and the alliteration suggests and emotional charge.
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