The furthest distances i've travelled

mediated experience

“saddled in a rucksack”

“my spine curved under it like the meridian”

“ i thought: yes this is how / to live”

• free verse + irregualrity - youthfil energy

loss of autonmy

“siberian white cells of scattered airports”

“relentless in anony/mity”

“stuffing smalls” “overdue laundry”

Existential idea

“routine evictions”

“alien pants” “stowaway pressed flower”

“the furthest distances I’ve travelled have been those between people”

“saddled in a rucksack”

• metaphor - connotatoons of adventure and rite of passage

• stability

“my spine curved under it like the meridian”

• simile - collapses body + geography : idenityty shaped by travel

• romanticised even weight - tones of naivety

“ i thought: yes this is how / to live”

• declarative - naive certainty

• fullfillment shaped by pre-existing cultural ideas

“siberian white cells of scattered airports”

• verb- exc, travel causes emo numbness + fragmentation of life

• ass. with sterile+ dehumainsation movement become mechanical not libertaing

“relentless in anony/mity”

• abstract nouns + enjambment splitting of idenity inherent in travle as identities become provisional, blurred across boundaries

“stuffing smalls” “overdue laundry”

• mundane reality deflates earlier romantisactaion

• freedom→ everday tasks

• highlighyts how speaker no longer in control of their experience

“routine evictions”

• cyclical normalised

• blunt tone- to mask emo vulnerbaility

• not loss of accomodation but habitual clearing of past- emo connections

• unavle to sustain meanigful relos = sytrong sense of emptiness

“alien pants” “stowaway pressed flower”

• listing - lack of fullfillment

• mundane intimate objects become symbolic of fleeting relos, personal exp are fragmented + temporray

“the furthest distances I’ve travelled have been those between people”

• cumilates poem- frames dist. as emo not physical despure travel no genuone connection

• expansive geography- small domestic detail, realistaion that physical journey’s do not lead to existential satisfaction