Letters from Yorkshire

• "pouring air and light into an envelope"


  Speaker feels trapped in urban world

  Metaphor - shows joy of writing to each other.
• "our souls tap out messages across the icy miles"


  'our souls' --> deep emotional bond

  'icy miles' - Pathetic fallacy --> usually has negative denotations, but not in this case
• "his knuckles singing"


  Colloquialism - shows close relationship

  'singing' - joyful connotations
• "as they reddened in the warmth"


  Juxtaposition - between 'reddened' and 'warmth' --> making something negative (living far apart) turn into a positive

  Colour imagery - creates sense of warmth between characters
• "heartful headlines"


  Alliteration - although the speaker loves the other person she also values her independent life
• "word of that other world"


  Alliteration - highlights the fact that the speaker is in an urban world but the poem has rural surroundings