THE FURTHEST DISTANCES I'VE TRAVELLED
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- The Furthest Distances I've Travelled
- Culture
- "...a Greyhound from Madison to Milwaukee..."
- "Siberian white/cells of scattered airports"
- "...scare stories about Larium/- the threats of delirium-"
- specific cultural references in the poem
- gives the reader the ability to picture the distance travelled
- Identity
- "the furthest distances I've travelled/have been those between people.."
- "I know these are my souvenirs"
- these experiences shape the narrator
- The inner monologue of the narrator gives us insight into this
- I thought: Yes. This is how/to live."
- Time
- "When I first saddled a rucksack..."
- "...during routine evictions, I discover..."
- shift between past and present tense
- creates a sense of distance between the young traveller and the older, emotionally mature narrator
- FORM
- Irregular stanza + line length
- "routine evictions" ; the narrator is used to not being somewhere long
- Mix of long and single word lines creates image of ups and downs in the form of the poem
- Full + half rhymes, inconsistent metre
- Adds an ebb-and-flow rhythm to the poem
- Irregular stanza + line length
- KEY LEXIS: TRAVEL
- "airports"
- "holidaying"
- "Meridian"
- "sherpa pass"
- Culture
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