Creativity in English language

Creativity in English language Order Description   2000 word essay: Essay Question: Identify and define creative features to be found in the poem Crab apple jelly by Vicki Feaver. (1000 words) Follow up by taking inspiration from Feaver's poem to rewrite it as either a passage from an autobiography or as a recipe (300 words) then conclude (700 words) with what you think can learned about creativity as a way of expression in poetry from the process of rewriting the poem. The Poem: Crab apple jelly 1 Every year you said it wasn’t worth the trouble – you’d better things to do with your time – and it made you furious when the jars were sold at the church fête 5 for less than the cost of the sugar. And every year you drove into the lanes around Calverton to search for the wild trees whose apples looked as red and as sweet as cherries, 10 and tasted sharper than gooseberries. You cooked them in the wide copper pan Grandma brought with her from Wigan, smashing them against the sides with a long wooden spoon to split 15 the skins, straining the pulp through an old muslin nappy. It hung for days, tied with string to the kitchen steps, dripping into a bowl on the floor – 20 brown-stained, horrible, a head in a bag, a pouch of sourness, of all that went wrong in that house of women. The last drops you wrung out with your hands; 25 then, closing doors and windows to shut out the clamouring wasps, you boiled up the juice with sugar, dribbling the syrup onto a cold plate until it set to a glaze, 30 filling the heated jars. When they were cool you held one up to the light to see if the jelly had cleared. Oh, Mummy, it was as clear and shining 35 as stained glass and the colour of fire. Feaver, V. (1992), 'Crab Apple Jelly' from Crab Apple Jelly, Somers Press