stanza 2

• “visibility poor.. dark of the ground.. drink the light of the sky“

  • Word choice: all of these suggest foreboding
  • Word ‘dark suggests something sinister or ominous
  • Personification of ‘drink the light of the sky’ suggests all of the light in her world being sucked into the earth
• “we grew Fondante d’Automne”

  • Parenthesis: conveys part of their past, that they had cared about nature - collectively with the pronoun ‘We’
  • Giving the pear it’s rightful ‘name’ emphasises their middle class bourgeois lifestyle and their desire to ‘show off’ their wealth
• “like a lightbulb. On. I thought to myself, Is be putting fairy lights in the tree?”

  • Simile adds comic effect: particularly coupled with the minor sentence ‘On’
  • Fairy lights whimsical description and acts as a direct contrast to the seriousness of what is about to happen.
  • Her use of a question compounds this humorous mood.