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1. Mood of nostalgia/reflection

   • Havisham
     • "I stink and remember"
     • "Who did this to me?"
     • "Not a day since then I haven't wished him dead"
     • "Till suddenly I bite awake"
   • Mrs Midas
     • "It was then that I started to scream. He sank to his knees"
     • "At first I visited, odd times"
     • "That was the last straw"
   • Originally
     • "I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake"
     • "All childhood is an emigration
     • "Stirred like a loose tooth"
     • "Your accent wrong"
   • Anne Hathaway
     • "Some nights I dreamed he'd written me"
     • "My lover's words were shooting stars"
     • "In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on"
     • "His touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun"

2. Tone of Anger/Bitterness/Sadness

   • Valentine
     • "It will blind you with tears like a lover"
     • "It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief"
     • "Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife"
     • "Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful"
   • War Photographer
     • "Sunday's supplement"
     • "With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
     • "To fields which don't explode..."
     • "The reader's eyeballs prick"
   • Havisham
     • "I stabbed at a wedding cake"
     • "Love's hate behind a white veil"
     • "Prayed for it so hard I've had dark green pebbles for eyes"
     • "Puce curses that are sounds not words"
   • Mrs Midas
     • "But now I feared his honeyed embrace"
     • "Its amber eyes holding pupils like flies"
     • "I miss most, even now..."
     • "Pure selfishness"