Robert Gray quotes/techniques

Colour motif (description of a walk)

“long sand-dunes, but / apple green”

“of a rusty red or burnt orange”

“Bacon redness of bark”

Colour motif (harbour dusk)

“Oily, aubergine dark”

“Mullberry and orange chiffon”

“Mauve-grey”

24 Poems (adagio)

In the rock pool, grass  (5)

moves with the water. Violin bows  (9)

Adagio  (4)

24 poems (crows)

The crows go over  (4)

all day, back and forth, anxious  (7)

to lace night with night. (5)

24 poems (hospital)

A hospital room;  (5)

in the curtains, a slight breeze. (7)

Thoughts of living. (4)

Flames and dangling wire (simile)

of cars like skulls

Flames and dangling wire (allusion)

As in hell the devils

Flames and dangling wire (inlusive language)

Behind us, the city

Flames and dangling wire (allusion)

like the rag held up in ‘The Raft of the Medusa’.