Neutral Tones

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title analysis?

implies a apathetic mood as the lack of colour indicated to a lack of emotion

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rhyme?

ABBA. cycles. implies the memory is constant

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type of poem?

it’s a dramatic monologue

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stanza 1-3

past tense, the significance of memory

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and a few leaves lay on the staving sod

imagery creates absence of desolation &decay - everything is lifeless and lacking in colour

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context?

marries and estranged from ex wife. was distressed when she died (after poem was published). He was also agnostic

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The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing

uses juxtaposition to shows how the couple was incompatible.

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Keen lessons that love deceives / And wring with wrong, have shaped to me / Your face’.

  • Alliteration in ‘wring with wrong’ and assonance in the line ‘keen lessons that love deceives’ creates a bitter sneering tone, reflecting the narrator’s bitterness towards his past relationship.