Form and Structure

• Narrative and speaker is third person, representing the distance between her and her father, and his rejection by society.
• The first five stanzas are ordered (whilst he is flying on his set mission).
• Only full stop is at the end of Stanza Five: he has made his decision to turn back.
• The final two are in italics and have longer line to represent the fallout of his decision: his life has shifted and will no longer be the same.
• Direct speech (“My mother never spoke again”) gives the poem a personal tone.