wish

• Form: first sonnet in collection, intense death and love -personal account of depression. No traditional rhyme scheme means duffy breaking out of traditinal literature as of poor mental health
• begins conditional tense, ‘But what if’ insinuating that everything that will follow is only a potential outcome. escape is ultimately unobtainable, remaining simply a dream or ‘wish’.
•  asyndeton possibility of escape is too difficult, requiring many steps. depression, simple task too much, seemingly never-ending list of tasks
• horrible feeling of being depressed by the metaphorical entombment in the earth.

  buried woman ‘grew warmer’, the movement from cold to warm perhaps representing the release from depression.
• end of the asyndetic list, ‘I wish.’, impossibility of escaping from depression. only end stop, ‘wish.’, to ensure futiloty + monosyllabic sentence defeated,deep sense of melancholy through these words.
• vulnerability bare feet’, contrastingwith the sharpness of the ‘gravel path’. + uncomftarble and uncomfrotig
• glimpse of hope triple repetition of ‘Nobody’ is an active rejection of the defeatist perspective Duffy has been engendering. ‘light’ representing positivity and release from depression overcoming
• conditional tense, ‘If I can only push’, signalling the innate disbelief ‘door’ that would provide freedom from depression as ‘heavy’ demonstrates Duffy’s defeatism, not being mentally strong enough to overcome depression.
• final line uncertainty wonder rep ‘why’ she was ‘shout[ing]’ and ‘run[ning]’, instantly unsure of the reason for fighting so hard. While not in that moment or state anymore, depression seems strange, something that Duffy doesn’t totally understand.
• A03: duffy was reminscing her mothers death
• seeks comfrot through imagery of fufillment\