Letters From Yorkshire

Question 1

Poet

Answer 1

Maura Dooley

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

-Maura Dooley was born in Cornwall in 1957. She spent three years of her life living in Yorkshire. She now lives in London.
-The poem is autobiographical – it reflects her own life.
-The relationship between the man and woman is unclear, and irrelevant: the important relationship here is between the narrator and the rural lifestyle.