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”This tender and elemental love poem to our first and most enduring love, that of the mother and child, is to all intents and purposes, a means for Carol Ann Duffy to reconstruct, even to re-invent a past beyond the first person, ‘I’ narrator. The poet conceives the poem as a response to looking back affectionately at another spirited ’self’, by imaginatively animating a snapshot of her ‘carefree’ teenage mother pictured with her friends. The poem transports the reader  ’back’ to this  re-conceived past, where the mother-daughter relationship and special time together, opens up also to the possibilities of friendship and to the potential for the very creation of the poet herself….”

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Carol Ann Duffy’s Before You Were Mine: An Analysis by Moira Eribenne M.Ed.

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