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Cora,Auntie
paula meehan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does the poem reflect | the bond between women across multiple generations |
| what does meehan weave | meehan weaves a meditation on resilience,memory and the ednuring strength of female kinship |
| what are the striking images that the poem begins with | staring death down with a bottle of morphine in one hand a bottle of jameson in the other |
| what quote highlights unconditional love | love unconditional keeping her just this side of the threshold |
| what poem shows memories and imagine | always a girl in her glance |
| what does humour a lance mean | cora uses wit and laughter as her weapon against death |
| what quote shows resilience | bearing the pain |
| what does the women are sewing red sequins to the hem of her white satin dress represent | the colour red represetns love and yuoth but also blood and death. the women sewing represnts the power and strength of the female community |