Carol Ann Duffy explores ideas about the relationship in before you where mine by making the daughter speak about how much she loves her mother and admirers her mother but in past tense the going to present tense we know this because in the first stanza the daughter talks about when her mum was on their corner that she used to laugh on and at the start it says ten years ago this shows us that she ios talking in past tense and she is not even born yet

She then goes into more definition about how she is taking as if she is. It alive also the grandma is waiting for the mum to come

We know she idols her mum because she says ”your polka dot dress blows round your legs Marlyn this is her comparing her mum to Marlyn monroe and as we know Marlyn monroe is was a Huge women figure and for her to compare her to Marlyn is a big thing and shows what type of relationship they have.they then start to talk about the mums fashion and how she was a baby and would play in her mums shoes.some of the      themes explored in the poem is motherhood love relationships and imagination

the poem is in chronologicol order as it is at the start when she isnot yet born the poem is moving through time also this poem is regular and has no rhyme sceme

the tone is admiring I say this because in the poem the daughter says “I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on” also this tells me that the daughter is admiring her mother