The Almond Tree

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The impression of speed is created in the second part. The significance of the speed implifies that the man emotions are at a high. Through the use of speed shows that the man is also exited. He is exited as he is about to have a son. Though there is excitement there is also tension as the reader would know that the child wouldn’t turn out to be a normal child but one with down syndrome. In the final line of the second part of stanza one there is religious imagery. It says “bells shook their blessing on his head.” The religious images are bells and blessing. There is personification in the phrase. The bells are being personified to seem as if there are shaking blessing onto “his head”. In the the almond tree is being intorduced. Through the use of the alomd tree the peot is forshadowing the child down syndrome. Alomd tree has connotaions of voyage and love, this is understood through the story of demophie and physlise. Where physolise turns into an almond tree when demotries fails to return in time.Almond tree also has connotations of down syndrome. This is known as the down sytndromed child would have an eye shape whch is on ne shaped like an almond. In the fourth stanza celebration of the pending birth is shown through the use of a medical lexical set and an extended metaphor. The first out of the lexical set is “the spiral stair”. Througfh the use of the word spriral the poet creates amn atmsphere of a jouney.the next out of the lexical set is “ a bone-white corridor”. The last lexical setis “shudering womd”. Through the use of of suddereing room it shows that the poet is portaing th eroom to being alive and full of

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