title-- an intensive search- sets a negative tone and connotation- search for victim, missing.

After the first phase,after passionate nights and intimate days,only then would he let me tracethe frozen river which ran through his face,only then would he let me explorethe blown hinge of his lower jaw,and handle and holdthe damaged, porcelain collar-bone,and mind and attend the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade,and finger and thumb the parachute silk of his punctured lung.Only then could I bind the strutsand climb the rungs of his broken ribs,and feel the hurtof his grazed heart.Skirting along,only then could I picture the scan,the foetus of metal beneath his chestwhere the bullet had finally come to rest.Then I widened the search,traced the scarring back to its sourceto a sweating, unexploded mineburied deep in his mind,around which every nerve in his body had tightened and closed.Then, and only then, did I come close.

 1 phase - refers to time passing, almost suggests it was tough - "only then"

overall theme - she is mending himtracing back to the source of suffering - the actual pain is in his head"unexploded mine" if any one comes near it will explode.

lexical fields - mechanical imagery:rudder parachute

-language - extended metaphor - for internal emotional injures.metaphor - "the frozen river which ran through his face"- river is unable to flow.- it has lost its purpose unable to function."frozen" suggest he is stuck in his feeling and does not know what to do.river suggests a depth to his feelings."blown hing of his lower jaw"- unable to express his thoughts-feels trapped.- unable to comunicate- hinge" unable to open up.- unhinged - metally voitile."explore"- she doesnt want to miss anything.unable to function. porcelain - delicate, easily broken rudder - cannot move -cannot turn himself around.silk - soft links to porcelain"climb the rungs" - starting to mendhurt - heart soft tones"grazed heart" - broken hearted. emotional pain"feel his pain' starting to relate to him more, physically and mentally."picture the scan""the foetus of metal beneath his chest"- foetus suggests it will grow into more pain more of an impact."widened the search"-"search" - manhunt- searching for her husband."to a sweating, unexploded mine/buried deep in his mind"- no one sees his pain - mine- when you get close it is dangerous- metaphorically be the death of her."only then did i come close"- close to understanding his pain-didnt completely fix him.

misleading first two lines-they seem to be about a passionate healthy relationship.fresh start to relationship.metaphically true as he is so broken you could say she is with a different person.by the title we belive that the poem is rather morrows.metaphor of not fitting together right in relationship.

The manhunt 

structure - repatittion of "only then"- couplets rhyming- small paragraphs.- short lines, fast repetition - baby steps of progress.

hourLove’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.We find an hour together, spend it not on flowersor wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hairlike treasure on the ground; the Midas lightturning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for herewe are millonaires, backhanding the nightso nothing dark will end our shining hour,no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spithung from the blade of grass at your ear,no chandelier or spotlight see you better litthan here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

main themes- surface themes and hidden themes romantic theme and darker themes. differnet interpretations.-perspective of a women- intertextuality.- effect of violence- darkness beneath surface - ambiguity

structure:sonnet form - 14 lines ending with rhyming coupletsrhyming schemeMeter- iambic pentameteronly stanza two ridgedly sticks to the meterthe other stanzas play with the meter - imbalance.at this point in the poem the structure reflects the perfection of the hour.

language:loves times beggar, but even a single hour,/bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich."- time is personified- love is beggar- time is dropping a single hour into loves hands as a gift.- love is homeless.- hour is a timed process.- dropped coin" makes it sound like a transaction as if it were illegal.- find" suggests difficultly of getting together.- spending time not money, metaphorically.- ditch" not romantic, hidden, imagery of a trench - dangerous. we find an hour together, spend it not on flowers/ or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch."- romantic imagery of "wine", "summer" and "flowers".- sibilance of "summer sky" , "Grass ditch"- softness of the grass.for thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair/like treasure on the ground;"-sibilance - treasure" gives the person value; the Midas light/ turning your limbs to gold."time slows, for here we are millionaires, backhanding the night"- punctuation physically slows the reader down.- millionare of seconds.-bribing the darkness to delay its coming - backhanding - bribing.- thousands of seconds sounds large but is less- midas was cursed as he turned everything to gold.- cannot have physical contact- richess at an expence.- backhand suggest bribery - they dont see each other during the night?- having an affair?"so nothing dark will end our shinning hour,"- nothing dark" the night will not disturb them.- shinning hour" highlight of her life.- yet dark implies something threatening.- obsessiveness of the moment, blocking out the reality.- delusional." no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit/hung from the blade of grass at your ear,/no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit"- no jewel will compare to the drop of jew.- cuckoo clock refers to time.- light - candle, spotlight, chandelier.candle - naturalspotlight - artidfitialnatural will win- no jewel" absence of poverty - no jewelry- absence of chandelier- absence of attention - in a ditchpoverty? of time?- cuckoo - suggestion of madness dilutional of there relationship."than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor"- Now." shows swiftness of time, gone in a flash.- personification of time that time is hateful, given verbs- time is loves enemy.- "hates love" contrasting words toghester suggesting a love hate relationship.- "poor" poverty of time not money. time is trying to steal from love."but love spins gold, gold ,gold from straw."- repetition of gold - love will never give up, unstoppable- refering to rumpelstiltskin - gold into straw. - loseing wealth to gain another wealth - love is the wealth. - iambic pentameter in the second relates to the iambic pentameter in rumpelstiltskin.

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