Neutral Tones

• "we stood"

  • awkward
  • not doing anything
• "chidden of God"

  • told off
• "they had fallen from an ash and where grey"

  • dying
  • ashes to ash dust to dust - funeral
  • burnt out fir symbolises lost passion
• "tedious riddles pf years ago"

  • same conversations
  • boring
• "On which lost the more by our love"

  words confirmed the loss of the relationship
• "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing"
• "Alive enough to have the strength to die"

  • deliberately trying to get him to cling on
  • wants him to suffer
• "grin of bitterness"

  • proud
• "keen lessons that love deceives me"

  • sharp painful lessons
  • cry with grief
  • when thinking about her he feels pain