Letters From Yorkshire.

Letters From Yorkshire-Maura Dooley

LINK TO WHEN WE TWO PARTED / FOLLOWER OR MOTHER ANY DISTANCE 

Extra Detail:

• Maura Dooley
  • Tends to write about personal experiences
  •  Used to live in Yorkshire, Cornwall and London
    • Memories
• Different lifestyles
  • Farmer and a Journalist
• 3 lines in every stanza
  • 5 stanzas
  • Thngs arent changing
  • Maintaining a connection
  • Something between them 
    • Distance
• Internal rhyme (so and snow)
• No actual rhyme scheme
• Conversational (Colloquiel)
• Use of nature

Stanza 1:

• "In February, digging his garden, planting potatoes, / he saw the first lapwings return and came / indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing"
  • Enjambment
  • Caesura
  • Lapwings are birds
    • In the poem they're returning in early spring to breed
      • Backwards and forwards
      • Like the letters
  • "Digging" and "planting"
    • Physical verbs
  • "Knuckles singing"
    • Personification
    • Positive word
    • Whilst writing to her
      • Happy to be writing to her

Stanza 2:

• "as they reddened in the warmth. / It's not romance, simply how things are. / You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons"
  • Enjambment
  • Caesura
  • Rushing to write to her
  • Reflects the distance between them 
    • Enjambment connects them - like the letters
  • "Its not romance..."
    • We once and item but due to the distance called it off (?)
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