Poetry

• Society's lack of concern for others
• Spurts arterial
• gushing with blood
• Operation planned, the
• Surgery the couple will have to get in order to survive
• Bristling with fragments
• Glasgow 5th of March 1971
• faces show no emotion-emotion, shows how heartless they are
• beginning of pain- holds the horror of the moment
• yang man and his girl anonymous, shows it can happen to anyone
• beard of cuts, face is injured
• keep their eyes on the rood
• lack of concer links to theme, don't want to be involved
• starfished cut - metaphor, image of a Starfish, trying to save themselves
• ragged diamond- sharpness, valuable, negative
• their breath rises into a cloud of happiness- represents the trio coming together, they are united
• White innocence purity, new 4 Sife
• Orphean sprig greek. mythology, music charm us
• monsters of the year go blank anything
• pain, friendship can overcome laughter ringing them round like a guard -they protected, guards caring for them are safe and can't bear this march of three soldiers have a powerful march
• end of this winters day- winter has ended and spring is on its way
• death is inevitable
• death is naturall and uncontrollable
• death always comes
• decay weakness, ruin, destruction
• ghost-death, afterlife
• muffled not at full volume, not alive as it should be
• during winter Winter fog drives monsterous -threat, unstoppable force, death is it's way
• Sees nothing and that nothing sees = emphasises death, means everything is over including the poem
• Summer dies- imagery, end of Summer
• dearest blues suggest poet loves Summer and colour, connot see beauty
• I do not know- poet does not understand death
• mean wind wonders alliteration, personification, avel
• no windows left smash everything has beed destroyed, abandoned derelict
• condemned to stand crash -idea of execution, doomed, suffering, pain, misery, rather be ded than alive
• not rats literal dirty, disease, Glasgow
• Sonnet roses of meld grow-decay is "air too poor to rob" -place has nothing to offer, pathetic, desperate
• Spreading, decay is replacing beauty
• cracks deepen - detencation, break down of Society
• Society's thought of religi