letters from yorkshire

• Our souls type out messages across the icy miles


  • metaphor shows how they don’t allow eachother to become disconnected. Icy miles would typically be pathetic fallacy to denote to something negative but dooley doesn’t allow it to  do so.
• he saw the first lapwings turn and came inside to write to me, his knuckles singing


  • The colloquialism shows the characters familiarity with each other. The joyful connotation of singing shows the letters aren’t just a means of writing to each other.
  • Allusion to springtime sets up hopeful tone for poem and references to cyclicity of nature, showing how their relationship is firmly planted in mutual admiration for nature.
• Its you who sends me word of that other world, pouring air and light into an envelope


  • alliteration highglights the difference between the urban life the speaker is living in and the rural life.
  • Metaphor highlights the joy writing letters gives to the pair. Could also reveal how speaker feels trapped within her urban life
• structure

  • free verse- conversational + light, their relationship is natural and not forced
  • internal rhyme- rhytmic connection, musicality and harmony between the two