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limits of expression

“giving love the only way she knew”

“please dont leave” → “but of course”

“a littel bag of her effects”

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erosion of agency

“Her name on it smudged in black ink,”

“a little bag of her effects. “

“The TV in the corner blared.”

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Grief + memory

“I held her hand,”

“His fingers couldn't clasp mine anymore.”

“drink after drink”, “scotch”.

“Her watch, it was gone”.

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“giving love the only way she knew” - “chopping slicing”

  • limiting phrasing - emo restraint - shaped by class or habit

  • semantic field of domestic labour

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“please dont leave” → “but of course”

  • direct speech + monosyllabic diction- human qualities stripped to hughlight raw emotions

  • relo reduced to plea - limits of expression of true needs

  • conjunction- limit of earlier ecpression

  • casual- normalcy - modal

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“a littel bag of her effects”

  • bathos- life diminshed to trivalise lifetime

  • collapse material belongings and emo consequences (polysemy)

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“Her name on it smudged in black ink,”

  • adjective- erasure + anonymity

  • idenitty compressed into beautractic lable

  • identity subject to erosion in instituional systems

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“a little bag of her effects. “

  • irony of title- indignity

  • idenityt made of material reminants curated by others

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“The TV in the corner blared.”

  • auditory imagery - mechnical monotony

  • past tesnse- life is afterthiught

  • spatial imagery- marginal- pushed out of centre

  • human agency replaced by passive exposure

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“I held her hand,”

  • metonomy for life

  • holding is conection

  • belated connection no longer restored

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“His fingers couldn't clasp mine anymore.”

  • lose of reciprocal touch- emerges grief

  • tactile imagery - relo becomes one sided grieves once sacrficing hand

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“drink after drink”, “scotch”.

  • stacchato rhyme- relentless decline into alcoholism

  • enacts grief through compulsive physical behaviour

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“Her watch, it was gone”.

  • symbol of time- contunity + routine

  • removal = disruption

  • declarative = blunt absence

  • greif experienced through quiet alternation in normality