‘Shooting Stars’ – Carol Ann Duffy. Verse 1 ‘After I no longer speak’ Euphemism for death. There is a sense of finality. Person knows she will die and.

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‘Shooting Stars’ – Carol Ann Duffy

Verse 1 ‘After I no longer speak’ Euphemism for death. There is a sense of finality. Person knows she will die and what will happen to her body when dead. ‘I’- Written in first person. Makes the poem very personal and what will happen even more shocking as person is dealing with horrors she is facing. It is clear she has accepted her fate.

‘break’ – onomatopoeia is a very harsh sounding word to use and emphasises brutality of soldiers torture.

‘salvage’ my wedding ring’ Word choice – salvage means to find something from rubbish. It is horrific that the gold band is saved and body disposed of. Juxtaposition used. The wedding ring symbolising love and devotion versus cruel theft

‘Rebecca Rachel Ruth Aaron Emmanuel David’ These are Jewish names which first indicate that the poem is depicting the Holocaust. There is no pause as list of names are read out; their identity is stolen and names are collective as Jew.

‘stars on all our brows’ Metaphor – the stars are not literally on heads of Jews. They would have worn a star on their clothing. This shows that Jews were a target for Nazi soliers.

‘beneath the gaze of men with guns’ Ambiguity – Double meaning. Could refer to men looking at dead bodies lying on ground or that soldiers viewed Jews as worth less than them because they were Jews. Also states torturers were men.

‘Mourn for the daughters,’ Written from the perspective of someone in women’s concentration camp. Speak asks for us to mourn for these women. Word choice - ‘mourn’ is very strong and it makes it clear that most women in the camp die and that our speaker will also inevitably die. Has connotations of death.

Verse 2 ‘upright as statues, brave.’ Simile – The women will not give the soldiers the satisfaction of seeing their fear. They won’t show their fear. They are standing proud and facing death.

‘Fell.’ Euphemism – One word sentence for emphasise. Women are now dead – this understatement of the word, ‘Fell’, makes the deaths more horrific.

‘I say Remember. Remember’ Repetition – emphasises the word – shows the speaker is begging us not to forget about horrors they endured in camp.

‘Remember those appalling days which make the world forever bad. Word choice – ‘appalling’ - emphasises horror of Holocaust. ‘Forever bad’ extends the idea. The speaker feels evil is always present in the world.

‘One saw I was alive’ Seeing death was normal in the Concentration Camps; anyone alive was very noticeable. ‘One’ refers to Nazi soldier.

Verse 3 ‘Loosened his belt’ Enjambment. This creates a pause and highlights that the woman seems shocked. The action of soldier suggests a possible beating but then indicates something more sinister.

‘My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear’ The reason she is so terrified is because he seems to be about to rape her. Through spoonerism, ‘ragged gape’ can be rearranged to ‘gagged rape’. These men treat the women like objects and feel they can do as they wish to them. This is also yet another insult to the woman before she is killed. Imagery - ‘ragged’ and ‘gape’ are very powerful and provoke images of ripping and tearing, which shows the pain the woman would face during a rape.

‘Between the gap of corpses I could see a child’ Word choice - ‘corpses’ continues the idea that the people have been stripped of their individuality and humanity. Also, the fact that the speaker can see a child shows that the soldiers torture and kill indiscriminately; they have no feelings or sympathy for their prisoners.

“The soldiers laughed” Contrast - this is in contrast with the suffering of the Jews. The soldiers seem light hearted and happy about the suffering, which highlights their lack of humanity. It shows that it is murder and rape that makes them happy.

“Only a matter of days separate this from acts of torture now” She is quite clearly showing here that because this has been done before, it can be done again. As soon as we forget the horrors of one atrocity another will be committed.

“They shot her in the eye” This child is used by the men as target practice. They do not see Jewish children as human.

Verse 4 “How would you prepare to die” This is forcing us to put ourselves in her position. Once again we are shocked by how calm she seems to be. It shows that they knew they were going to die, that it was their only option. To have this knowledge of their own fate must have weighed heavily on them.

“a perfect April evening” Contrast - This makes us think of spring and rebirth, yet this in direct contrast to the death in this camp.

“young men gossiping and smoking by the graves” Contrast - This shows how normal death seems to these soldiers. They act as if they are sitting around a camp fire. They are very normal, relaxed everyday things here, and this is in shocking contrast to what is happening around them. The Holocaust was so horrifying and yet it was seen as normal at the time. This helps to emphasise what men are capable of.

“My bare feet felt the earth” Ambiguity - They have been stripped of every personal belonging and civility when we see they have no shoes. She also seems to be preparing to die and be buried and become part of the earth. She seems to have accepted her fate.

“urine trickled down my legs” She is so terrified she has wet herself. This is yet another humiliation she has had to suffer.

“I heard the click. Not yet. A trick.” Sentence structure - A soldier has pretended to shoot her but has an empty chamber. This is described as a trick on the soldiers part. A trick is a game, something funny – there is nothing funny about this. Three very short sentences create impact and make us pause to see the harshness of what is happening. The internal rhyme of ‘click’ and ‘trick’ also increases the pace and intensity of the poem. It also sounds harsh, which represents the harsh treatment of the Jews.

Verse 5 “After immense suffering someone take tea on the lawn” Word Choice - The word ‘immense’ creates an image of the intensity of what these people had to go through. Contrast - there is a contrast when we once again see how the lives of the soldiers continue as normal. They seem to live in a civilised manner even though they are surrounded by pain and suffering.

“After terrible moans a boy washes his uniform” Onomatopoeia – moans - The solider, a young man, has just caused someone great pain, suffering and death. The boy is civil enough to worry about keeping clean and looking good. The use of “boy” suggests that Nazis too may have been victims, having their innocence taken away from them. The soldiers seem to think they can simply wash away their sins, just as easily as they wash the blood from their uniforms.

“After the history lesson… Sara Ezra…” Shows how quickly people are able to forget about the things that went on during the Holocaust. As the bodies are covered in soil and the history lesson ends, they are able to forget and continue on with their normal day to day lives with no more thought of this. Ellipsis - ellipsis is used here to show the never ending list of victims (not just of Nazi persecution but also of our forgetfulness over time)

‘After’ Repetition – Emphasises links to the Holocaust and that people can so easily forget the horror and torture of it.

Verse 6 “Sister, if seas part us, do you not consider me?” This is an appeal from this woman to other women. She is asking us to remember what happened to her, even if we are not Jews, even if we come from far away from where all this happened.

“Tell them I sang the ancient psalms at dusk” We have to keep her memory alive, the things that she did and the fact that despite the suffering she has endured, she never let go of her religion, even though she was being persecuted because of it.

“inside the wire and strong men wept” Imagery (provokes emotion sense) Inside the concentration camps, conditions were so awful that even the strongest of men could not help but cry at what was happening to their families and communities.

“Turn thee / unto me with mercy, for I am desolate and lost.” This is a reworking of, Psalm twenty-five, verse 16, which is a prayer from King David to God in which David places his absolute trust in God. This represents that the Jews have put their faith in the rest of the world, asking people to be merciful and the request has not been granted. Word Choice- ‘desolate’ gives a clear indication that she feels empty and hollow, as if she has nothing left. She is also ‘lost’ as she finds it hard to understand why she has been persecuted because of her faith. Unless we remember she will be forgotten and gone forever.

Structure of the Poem The poem has an irregular rhyme scheme. This means we never know what to expect. This represents the conditions experienced by the Jews in WW2 as they never knew what to expect while living in concentration camps. This lack of regularity represents the unpredictability of life in the concentration camps, and acts which are too horrific for the Jews to anticipate. The stanza structure contrasts this. It is very regular (6 stanzas, each 4 lines long). This represents the inevitability of human nature continuing to commit atrocities against other humans. It highlights that we do not learn from our mistakes.