Neutral Tones🖤

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Bleached lack of colour- ironic he feels none of this
Lifeless
Feels whole spectrum of loss

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

The sun was white, as though chidden of god
A few leaves lay on the starving son/;
They had fallen from an ash, and were grey.
Alive enough to have strength to die (mouth was the deadest thing)
Like an ominous bird a- wing…
Pond edged with greyish leaves

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Ellipsis
Like an ominous bird a- wing...
End stopping 
And a pond edged with greyish leaves.
On which lost the more by our love.
They had fallen from ash, and were grey.

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

Circular structure- frustration, awareness and vivid if end, stick in cycle of sadness
Lyric poem- personal bitter feelings
Indented final line of each stanza- slow pace of poem
ABBA rhyme scheme- separation or memory resurfacing
Relentless neutral tone- lots of language of decay and loss- link to natural cycle of decay