Da Clearance by Rhoda Bulter (Scottish Highers English): Flashcards
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Highland Clearances
Highland Clearances
Forced evictions in 18th-19th centuries for sheep farming
Poem structure
Poem structure
Four quatrains
Rhyme scheme per stanza
Rhyme scheme per stanza
Two rhyming couplets
Rigs in the poem
Rigs in the poem
Runrig system - communal agriculture with shared land strips
'Aa da lums ir reekin' symbolism
'Aa da lums ir reekin' symbolism
Life and activity in the township
Code-switching purpose
Code-switching purpose
English for oppressors, Shetlandic for community - power divide
'hirded' effect
'hirded' effect
Parallels community treatment with farm animals
Green land symbolism
Green land symbolism
Absence of life and labour - land no longer worked
'equal portions' meaning
'equal portions' meaning
Only in death did community get equal land (graves)
Transhistorical speaker
Transhistorical speaker
Speaker moves across time, witnessing clearance as eternal present