Aunt Helen (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Author of 'Aunt Helen'
Author of 'Aunt Helen'
T.S. Eliot
Aunt Helen's full name
Aunt Helen's full name
Miss Helen Slingsby
How many servants cared for Aunt Helen?
How many servants cared for Aunt Helen?
Four
Quote showing silence at her death
Quote showing silence at her death
silence in heaven / And silence at her end of the street
Object that continued ticking after her death
Object that continued ticking after her death
The Dresden clock
What the dogs received after her death
What the dogs received after her death
Handsomely provided for
Main theme: Aunt Helen's life condition
Main theme: Aunt Helen's life condition
Isolation and detachment
Theme about social status in the poem
Theme about social status in the poem
Superficiality of social status
How is death portrayed in the poem?
How is death portrayed in the poem?
Mundane reality of death
Key stylistic device used for critique
Key stylistic device used for critique
Irony and satire
What the undertaker did at the door
What the undertaker did at the door
Wiped his feet
Where Aunt Helen lived
Where Aunt Helen lived
Small house near a fashionable square
Servants' behaviour change after death (footman)
Servants' behaviour change after death (footman)
Sat on dining table with housemaid on his knees
Repeated word emphasising lack of response to death
Repeated word emphasising lack of response to death
Silence
Fate of Aunt Helen's parrot
Fate of Aunt Helen's parrot
Died shortly after Aunt Helen