Letters from Yorkshire

• What is Letters from Yorkshire about?

  A woman's perspective of a long distance relationship.
• Why is the poem structured in tersets with no rhyme scheme?


  To show the strain the distance has on the relationship
• What are the contrasts between their lives

  He is active in life and 'connected with the land' in his agricultural work, wheras she is passive, her job as a journalist comments on life and doesnt 'live it'
• "Feeding words onto a blank screen" what does that imply?


  the flat imagery tells us she feels her work is pointless/lifeless
• What does all the natural imagery imply?

  Their love is organic and they are connected spiritually --> 'our souls tap out messages'