From Long Distance

Question 1

Content

Answer 1

Speaker criticises father’s method of grieving after his mothers death.
After death of father, he becomes closer to him, and begins to understand this grief

Question 2

Interprétation

Answer 2

Denial during grief is initially melancholic, poems ending suggests its normality
Sense of connection and solace it offers to the bereaved

Question 3

F and s

Answer 3

Meredithian - conventional romantic depictions of love
16 lines in 3 quatrains false veneer of simplicity

Question 4

Context

Answer 4

Published 1981 - in continuous: 50 sonnets from the school of eloquence, continuation of 1978 poem
- had strained relationship with father, but found closeness to him after his death through writing