Long Distance Flashcards
1
Q
Themes from long distance
A
Love can endure after death
The persistence of love
Greif can be experienced in different ways
2
Q
Enjambment
A
Reflects fathers urgency to hide his wife’s things
3
Q
Caesura in funeral blues
A
You couldn’t just drop in you had to phone
Short sentences causing an angry tone suggesting the speaker finds his fathers behaviour irrational without directly criticising him
4
Q
Abba change in rhyme scheme in funeral blues
A
The shift reflects a change in the speakers view of Greif at first he didn’t understand why his father couldn’t accept his mothers death, but after his fathers death the speaker begins to relate more to his fathers Greif
