‘Mother, Any Distance’ - Simon Armitage (Born1963)
English Lit: AQA GCSE Poetry - Love & Relationships, topic 17.1.11
Key Quotes in Mother, Any Distance
Here are some examples of key quotes in Mother, Any Distance:
‘You at the zero-end...'
- ‘You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape’.
- The fixed position of the mother at the 'zero-end' shows the contrast between the security of childhood and the narrator's feelings of instability as he approaches adulthood.
‘Line still feeding out...'
- ‘The line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite’
- The reference to the measuring tape 'unreeling years' suggests it symbolises the passage of time as the son grows up.
Test yourself on ‘Mother, Any Distance’ - Simon Armitage (Born1963)
Who is at the 'zero-end' of the measuring tape in Mother, Any Distance?