In Our Tenth Year

In Our Tenth Year

1. Tone

   • Reflective
     • Looking back on relationship
       • Harebell
     • Romance
   • Love + Strength
     • Fragility
   • What relationships can turn

2. Imagery

   • Harebell
     • Small, delicate, easily destroyed
       • Suffered but survived
         • Nature
           • Dangerous flower = dangerous relationship
           • Natural relationship
     • 'If pressed still bleeds'
       • Vivid memory
     • Artificially preserved
       • Bad to hold onto things
     • Romance
   • 'Pressed between sheets'
     • Infidelity
       • Bed
   • Watercolour
     • Memory not accurate + hazy
       • Less relevant
       • TWO
   • Affair
     • Detailed for wife, hazy for husband
       • 'Inventory of names and dates and times'
         • TIMINGS!
           • Decades etc.
     • 'Tall, dark, handsome lies'
       • Two seperate people
         • Both responsible
     • Staying together for kids
     • Shocking still together

3. Structure

   • Three or for lines for each stanza
     • Involve you in poem
     • Cyclical nature of relationship
       • Two seperate, joint final stanza
   • Assonance
     • Vowel sounds
     • Rhythem
     • Stanza = season
       • Self-contained
   • Sonnet
     • But not love poem
       • Fundamental nature
       • Overcoming adversity
     • Monosybillic