letters from yorkshire

• "his knuckles singing"
• "my heartful of headlines feeding words onto a blank screen"
• "pouring air and ice into an envelope"
• "our souls tap out messages across the icy miles"


  "icy miles" would typically act as pathetic fallecy to create a sense of isolation yet dooley has not allowed it to affect the relationship
• what is the structure?

  linear- first four stanzas are their seperate lives yet in the last stanza the tone changes to be about their seperate lives
• what is the form?

  the poem is written in free verse making the poem flow like a natural speech or letter
• 3 key themes?

  appriciation, connection and longing
• what is the conext?

  dooley has lived in multiple places so the disparity between urban and rural life is reflected in the poem. thought to be about her father or friend