Anthology - Letters from Yorkshire

QUOTE: colloquial language, temporal deixis

“In February“

QUOTE: ‘h’ alliteration

“heartful of headlines“

QUOTE: fricatives, personification

“feeding words onto a blank screen“

QUOTE: pronoun shift, direct address

“he saw“, “you out there“, “our souls“

QUOTE: natural imagery, asyndeton, list, plosive alliteration

“digging his garden, planting potatoes, he saw the first lapwings return“

QUOTE: natural imagery, pathetic fallacy, metaphor, synecdoche, sibilance

“our souls tap out messages across the icy miles“

QUOTE: natural imagery, semantic field of temperature, juxtaposition

“reddened in the warmth“, “in the cold“

QUOTE: metaphor, personification, juxtaposition, synecdoche

“knuckles singing“

QUOTE: metaphor, light imagery

“pouring air and light into an envelope“

QUOTE: antithesis

“same news in different houses“

FORM AND STRUCTURE [4]:

• five tercets

• no rhyme scheme

• like vignettes

• enjambment

FORM AND STRUCTURE: five tercets

space between represents time and distance between letters

FORM AND STRUCTURE: no rhyme scheme [2]

• represents casual nature of relationship

• represents misalignment and difference

FORM AND STRUCTURE: like vignettes

represents gaps while waiting for next letter

FORM AND STRUCTURE: enjambment [2]

• represents casual nature of relationship

• shows that distance doesn’t impact love

CONTEXT [3]:

• written by Maura Dooley

• born in Cornwall but has lived in London, Bristol and Yorkshire

• theme of communication is prevalent in her poetry

THEMES [5]:

• platonic relationships

• familial relationships

• distance

• communication

• nature