Neutral tones

Neutral tones

1. General Themes

   • Monochromatic
   • Love is harsh
   • Once the puzzle has been solved, love is over
   • Love deceives

2. Stanza 1

   • "winter day"
     • Pathetic fallacy
     • cold and colourless/ dead
       • (like the relationship has become)
   • "sun was white"
     • Lack of...
       • Colour
       • Warmth
       • energy
   • "starving sod"
     • monosyllabic, cold (God hasn't provided)
   • "ash"
     • ambiguous
   • "gray"
     • death
     • lack of colour

3. Stanza 2

   • "eyes that rove"
     • no eye contact
   • "tedious riddles"
     • boring, pointless
   • "some words played"
     • game/ complicated
     • playful, contrasting

4. Stanza 3

   • "smile.... was the deadest thing"
     • anticipation is dashed
     • contrast
   • "grin of bitterness"
     • contrast, cold
   • "alive enough to have strength to die"
     • oxymoronic
     • death= weak
     • strength= want
   • "swept"
     • Swiftness
   • "ominous bird-a-wing"
     • simile
     • warning
   • ellipses...
     • Cliffhanger, suspense

5. Stanza 4

   • "since then"
     • TIME
   • "keen lessons that love deceives"
     • learnt the hard way
   • "wrings with wrong"
     • leaves you emotionally drained, robbed
   • Cyclical
     • Bad memory

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