How the narrator is portrayed in Norman McCaig's "Aunt Julia".

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At the start of the poem the narrator talks as a child and immature person. In Aunt Julia poem, the narrator feels frustrated and confused “Very loud and very fast”, his language is plain and factual, he uses repetition to emphasise that her language which is the “Gaelic language” is very hard to understand. He is complaining from her annoying voice. He uses very easy and simple words to show us that he talks about his childhood in a childish language. He repeats “very loud and very fast” to show that she was proud of her culture and identity. She had a sense of pride and dignity. “I couldn’t understand her “and he is repeating it using first person narrator “ I “because of his upsetting and anger because he cannot communicate with his aunt, the only one who can talk to in the house. He really wished that he can talk with her. He has a passion and anger because he gets no answer. 

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He then starts to describe her as a strange person “She wore men’s boots” which shows that she is a hard worker woman. She gives the encouragement and the example of fast, active and strong woman who can do a man’s work. He admires and compares her to nature and conveys her magical technique on the spinning wheel and he is comparing her with the air speed “marvellously out of the air “adjective to show us her magical skill. His descriptions give insights into her way of life.

The narrator starts to feel sorry about what he said in the ...

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