straight-back, white broderie anglaise shirt, pleated skirt, flat shoes, grey bun, Her physical appearance (traight-back) & what she wears (very neat & proper) Note: broderie anglaise is French for "English embroidery’ STANZA 2 : Past (Remembering what happened) STANZA 3 : Present (Looking at the photograph again) @__ | akind, old smile round her eyes. Her smile shows that she is kind & gentle Her big hand holds mine, Her grandmother is loving & caring white hand in black hand. The white hand belongs to her grandmother & the black hand is the persona’s (togetherness) 7 |Her sharp blue eyes look her own death in the eye. | Her grandmother's visions stil good but she is actually dying ‘Stanza Two Tine no. Line interpretation T | itwas true after all; that look ‘that look’ refers to the look of someone dying 2 _| My tall grandmother became small Her grandmother's condition got 3__|Herback round and hunched worse when she was sick and dying @__| Her soup forgot to boil ‘She was too illto take care of herself 5__| She wentto the awful place grandmothers go. She died © __| Somewhere unknown, unthinkable. The place her grandmother was sent to(afterlife) - was a mystery to the persona Stanza Three Line no. Line Interpretation 1 | Butthere she is stil, The persona is looking at the hotograph of her grandmother and 2 _| inthe photo with me at three, herwhen she was thee years old 3 _| the crinkled smile is stil living, breathing. To her, the memory of her old grandmother is still new and fresh TIME>>> STANZA 1: Present (Looking at the photograph) OD Le ithout love, life isn't worth living.” Jackie Kay