neutral tones

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  • Created on: 20-02-17 17:30
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  • Neutral Tones
    • Title
      • Neutral Tones is ostensibly about the narrator’s feelings regarding a break up
    • Narrator
      • The narrator seems to reflect on their relationship in a very negative way
    • Form and Tone
      • romantic style.
        • natural world
          • The poem presents itself in four stanzas, that are all four lines long. The consistent rhyme is ABBA
            • Structure
              • The fourth stanza provides a turning point for the poem as the reader realises that what has been explained so far is a described memory.
              • This stanza is particularly halting in its structure (look at how the third line is broken up) which perhaps suggests that the speaker does not feel quite as neutral about the memory as the title suggests.
    • Imagery
      • Their love has gone cold.
        • Quote: 'winter day'
      • Upset
        • Quote: 'Bird a-wing'
    • Theme
      • love brings pain and cannot be trusted
    • Structure
      • The fourth stanza provides a turning point for the poem as the reader realises that what has been explained so far is a described memory.
      • This stanza is particularly halting in its structure (look at how the third line is broken up) which perhaps suggests that the speaker does not feel quite as neutral about the memory as the title suggests.

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