No road Flashcards

(8 cards)

1
Q

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

A
  1. explores the ending of relationships
  2. uncertain why + how he will move forward
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1 - ‘road between us fall to __’

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disuse - visual representation of his seperation

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3
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1 - ‘bricked our __ up, planted trees to screen us’

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gates - listing = active steps they have took to seperate

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4
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1 - ‘turned all times __ agents loose’

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eroding - personification = time will force this seperation

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5
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1 - ‘silence, and __, and strangers’

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space - sibilence/conjuctions = visua; representation of new seperation

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6
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1 - ‘you to __’

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me - switch to singular pronoun = slowly seperating

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7
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2 - ‘to watch that world come up like a __ sun’

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cold - once warm + bright - now redundant and alien

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2 - ‘Not to prevent it is my wills __’

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fullfillment - tangled syntax = trying to make sense of the breakup + prefers solitude

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