rain

• "braiding a windowpane"

  metaphor shows intimacy, just as braiding someones hair is a close up action between friends so too is rain intimate and personal
• "darkening a hung-out dress"

  has connotations of desolate, lonely and wrongdoings. This suggests sinful, fallen and disgraced women which creates an emotive atmosphere conveying a more deeper and religious meaning of rain
• "one big thundering downpour"


  has connotations of destruction, dejection and overwhelming grief. This suggests that the woman is distressed, in anguish and sorrowful. pathetic fallacy shows an artificial way of creating a feeling of extreme sadness, superfluous adjective emphasises how dramatic films can be
• "empty script"

  has connotations of emotionless, hollow and lacking. This conveys how the film is meaningless, artificial and insignificant. It suggests how the poet doesn't care about the reason for art but the significance of rain is to appreciate art and beauty for its own sake
• "silent telephone"

  has connotations of death, absence and isolation. This portrays how downcast, despondent and dismal the woman is, again suggesting the impact of rain (through the use of pathetic fallacy) in creating/highlighting despair in a scene.
• "girl walks of the overpass"

  has connotations of fading, gradually out of focus and disappearing into the distance. This conveys how rain washes away, blurs and obscures detail. This suggests a sense of obliteration as she perhaps is committing suicide.
• "fatal watercourse"

  has connotations of true path, inevitability and unavoidable. This suggests how life has its own way, is unpredictable and predestined. This conveys an idea of following fate, but also how rain is life giving but in this case fatal as well. it hints at how there is an inescapable end to life.
• "adaptation from the play"

  has connotations of an act, fake and artificial. This makes clear the idea of pretend, of people being someone else and saying words that aren't theirs. This suggests how people go through life following a pre-planned script.
• "opened cold"

  "opened" has connotations of beginnings, opportunities and new life while "cold" suggests death, unapproachable and darkness. This relates to Adam and Eve as it is similar from innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience
• "forget the ink, the milk, the blood"


  ink, milk and blood connote to creation, nurture, growth, life and death and family. In being told to forget the poet is wanting us to begin again
• "washed clean with the flood"

  "washed clean" has connotations of rebirth, enlightenment, and religion. It relates to the flood and baptism, both symbolic of new beginnings. God decided to destroy everything he created due to sin and ended it with a rainbow as a sign of promise, "washed clean" is parallel to this in how the poet introduces the idea of awakening and positivity after the concepts of despair and darkness
• "rose up from the falling waters"

  "rose up" has connotations of joy, energy and awakening. This supports the idea of "fallen waters" - how humans are renewed refreshed and pure. This suggests how the poet thinks that despite the troubles and sufferings in life, nothing is of significance in the end