Letters from Yorkshire

• "he saw the first lapwings return and came indoors to write to me"

  • annual event
  • natural cycle
  • shift in focus
• "his knuckles singing"

  • even though it's pain there is still joy
  • oxymoron
• "its not romance"

  • not a couple more of a platonic relationship
• "seeing the seasons turning"

  • sibilance - loving, joyous
  • much more natural - stanzas connect together
  • enjambment
• "heartful of headlines"

  • journalist
  • metaphor
  • heaviness in voice
• "is your life more real because you dig and sow"

  • rhetorical question
  • journalist always rights about other people
  • is he more fulfilled
• "pouring air and light into an envelope"

  • he is light she is dark
  • he is filled with something her life isn't
• "our souls tap out messages across the icy miles"

  • connected through meaningful letters