"Mother, Any Distance" by Simon Armitage (GCSE analysis)

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GRADE 9 20 MARKER EXAMPLE FREE TO USE , WROTE IN EXAM CONDTIONS APOLOGIES FOR ANY GRAMMACTICAL ERRORS. In the poem, the writer has presented the relationship with the mother as two opposites that attract. They have very contrasting personalities that are bonded together like a "spool of tape". The mother is presented as a formal character that keeps her son grounded and gives a sense of structure in his life. We can see this as the poem is put in a AABB rhyme scheme throughout the play. This set structured rhyme scheme symbolizes how his mother keeps him structures throughout his life. She is the very thing keeping his safe and protected. This set of arrangement gives us a sense that she has set foundations in her sons life. The speaker clearly has a formal relationship with his mother as it isn't free verse or flowing. This sense of formality is even more emphasized as the write gives a direct address to his mother about how he is going to leave the "hatch" and go into the wide world. He used colloquial formal language of "mother" instead of a more loving connotating word of mummy or mum. This shows they have a very traditional relationship. We see her personality and the relationship being presented thorough the word "anchor" , the mother has been presented through the noun as someone who is grounded and firm. A anchor connotates to someone that protects her son and keeps him at bay. Like the anchor that protects the boat from getting lost in the waves and wind his mother is keeping him safe and protecting him from the world and society. A anchor is a important component in a boat signifying how important his mother is to him. This tells us that the mother is a figure in his life that is dear to him someone that has protected him and gave him a sense of structure in his life. This tells us that the speaker and his relationship of him and his mother is a figure of formality , structure, importance and is someone who has protected him and cared for him. She has kept him grounded in the relationship which contrasts with his idea of breaking free into the world. The writer shows the clashing of personality's in the relationship. The speaker is someone who is a "kite" and is opening a "hatch " into the "endless sky". The noun kite is a direct juxtaposition to anchor. The word endless signifies the boundlessness of the world he will enter into , its hyperbolic language is emphasizing what he is entering into to. He will either "fly or fall" the speaker is telling his mother that he understands what he is going to face and is reassuring her. The speaker is trying to fly high in the wind and sky but is being holded down by a string (his mother). He is being compared to like a kite a strong metaphor showing his personality trait as someone who is about to be free. The speaker wants to be released into the world, the very thing his mother is protecting him from. In doing so he is going to break the hatch and open the doors. This is a metaphorical representation of what he will do (leave his mother and go be by himself in the endless world). This tells us that the speaker is someone who is going to leave his mother and go break free into the world but he is reassuring the mother that he will be safe on the other end of the tape. This tells us that his relationship with his mother is tight knit together and close. He reassures her that even though they will be separated and he will be gone with the wind and float away he cares- even though he's moving on.