Letters From Yorkshire

• Maura Dooley, 2002
• Free verse, flows like speech or letter
• narrator reflects on different lives - country verses urban
• first three stanzas show different lives, last two show connection
• contrast throughout depicts different lifestyles
• it's not romance, simply how things are
• Is your life more real because you dig and sow?
• our souls tap out messages across icy miles
• physical verbs - digging, planting etc show connection to nature
• plural 'letters' in title suggests poet recieves letters frequently
• no rhyme scheme but a rhythm of continuous verbs
• begins the poem in third person - shows separation