with birds you’re never lonely - raymond antrobus

‘Cant hear the barista over the coffee machine’

‘Spoons slam’

Starts the poem disconnected from human world.

Focuses on the absence of a sound that is irrelevant

Human activities are loud in a disturbing way

Sounds are loud and aggressive

‘Sound syrupped kauri trees’

‘Brown and green trunks’

’yellow and black beaks’

Colour imagery, language is basic and easily understood like nature- contrasts with sounds

Sibilance shows flow of nature (ss)

‘Trunks of sturdiness’

Nature has a stable life human activities change this, kauri trees live forever 2000 years but human action prevents this

‘Grey tree in london’

‘ family they dont have’

Colours become monotonous when there is areas of high population, loneliness where there is more people which is different to nature