Letters From Yorshire (love)

Question 1

What is the context of Letters from Yorkshire?

Answer 1

Letters from Yorkshire explores the connection between two people one who works in news in the city and the other who works in agriculture (rural)
Despite their differences and distance, it is apparent they share a deep bond via their correspondence via letters

Question 2

Why is Letters from Yorkshire free verse?

Answer 2

To mimic the letters they communicate through

Question 3

What method is used that reflects the changing seasons and tie the poem together due to the lack of rhyme scheme?

Answer 3

Enjambement

Question 4

What is Letters from Yorkshire’s key message?

Answer 4

Love can withstand distance

Question 5

What does the poet do to represent a change from focusing on their separation to how their letters bring the couple together?

Answer 5

Dooley shifts through different pronouns from ‘he’ to direct address of ‘you’ to the use of ‘our’ in the final stanza. Showing how the speaker is changing from individual experience to a combined narrative via the letters.

Question 6

What methods are used within the poem?

Answer 6

Colour/Nature imagery
Figurative Language
Metaphors
Lexis of communication
Pathetic Fallacy

Question 7

Is the poem autobiographical?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What is the tone of the poem?

Answer 8

The tone is bittersweet, joyful, optimistic, gentle and appreciative

Question 9

How is juxtaposition used within the poem?

Answer 9

To show contrast in both peoples lives

Question 10

How is figurative language use?

Answer 10

Figurative language is used to show bond between the two and sets a joyful tone

Question 11

What quotation features personification and the lexis of communication?

Answer 11

‘Indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing’

Question 12

What metaphorical quotation shows how the relationship brings them joy and fulfilment and has natural imagery?

Answer 12

‘Pouring light and air into an envelope’
Natural imagery (necessities suggests the letters are vital for the speaker)

Question 13

What metaphorical quotation shows the couples spiritual connection (soul mates) and uses pathetic fallacy by subverting usual connotations of winter?

Answer 13

‘Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles’

Question 14

What is significant about the quotation, ‘heart full of headlines’?

Answer 14

Alliteration is used to emphasis the authors love for her career and writing

Question 15

What quotation shows a hint of the speakers distaste for her job and contrast between the urban and rural life?

Answer 15

‘Feeding words onto a blank page’
(Contrasts knuckles singing)