Night Drive

Night Drive

Imagery
1. Sexual
  1. Longing for his wife/sex
    1. Third stanza
      1. Groaning
      2. Bled seeds
      3. Smouldered
    2. turns farm imagery into thoughts of her
2. Foreign destinations
  1. Signposts whitened relentlessly
    1. Car lights driving past
      1. Were promised, promised, came and went
        list suggesting haste to see her - Breaking rule of 3
  2. France, Italy
    1. Places of love, sex and romance
      1. Reminding him of her
Tone
1. Longing
2. Incomplete
Themes
1. Desire / Lust
2. His Wife
Overview
1. Journey to see his wife
2. Relfection of their relationship/ longing for her
Phonetics
1. Open vowel sounds
  1. warm droughts in the open
  2. False sense of security
  3. calming atmosphere
Rhyme
1. Half rhyme
  1. air/car went/fulfilment sphere/there
    1. sense of near miss
      1. Isolation without her / doesnt fit
  2. reflects unordinary situation for Heaney
Structure
1. Ordinariness
  1. Beginning and end
    1. All encompassing
      1. Feels complete with her ordinariness
2. Heavy use of deixis
  1. He travels through France as the poem progresses
    1. About his journey and longing to be with her
Language
1. Second person pronoun
  1. I thought of you
    1. Personal to wife - love letter?
2. Ordinariness
  1. She is a part of him, finds comfort in her and makes him complete
  2. Litotes - unordinary situation - not ordinary to be alone

Resource summary

	Created by Mollie Rich about 6 years ago