TONE: sentimental / remiscent / FORM: Lyric – expresses feelings

sad

POV : First person The Darling Letters

Hidden away –
Somewhere ordinary embarrassed – not
impersonal / non   – not specially bought wanting to remember –
specific POV
but not throw them away

Some keep them in shoeboxes away from the light,

personification – adjusting
physical pain from darkness into light – link
personification sore memories blinking out as the lid lifts, to coffin, and burial - death
of memories
their own recklessness written all over them. My own... Cliché
Meaning of the
jokes is no longer Private jokes, no longer comprehended, pull their punchlines,
alliteration Ps and
understood. -
Fs for emphasis
letters no longer
communicate the
fall flat in the gaps between the endearments. What that meaning is lost
way they used to
are you wearing? Cliché the letters have lost meaning over time – now just a
sandwich of over used expressions and badly expressed
private messages - language is failing to communicate?
Cliché BUT they are a reminder of painful emotions so do they
communicate memories by their physical existence rather
Don't ever change. then the words used? The memoroes come back when we
read the letters
Letters chart the progress of the
They start with Darling; end in recriminations,
Cliché relationship - devotion to break
Emphasizes
up and sadness. relationships
letter is carefully
read describing
absence, sense of loss. Even now, the fist's bud flowers change and die Imagery – future
as a flower -
the physical
action and the into trembling, the fingers trace each line and see beautiful
physical Use of present tense
reaction / the future then. Always... Nobody burns them, highlight that letters
still affect people
emotional impact
“ trembling”
the Darling letters, stiff in their cardboardCliché
coffins. specific POV –
“everyone” keeps them

Babykins... We all had strange names Personification of

letters as corpses in
Cliché which make us blush, as though we'd murdered coffins -DEATH –
buried not cremated
Repetition
Treasuring someone under an alias, long ago. I'll die of die for POV inclusive everyone
included – universal
things from our emphasis
experience
past even if they
are failures is
without you. Die. Once in a while, alone,
Embarrassed – don’t do it
something every
one does /is we take them out to read again, the heart thudding publicly – physical
reaction to emotions
normal -
like a spade on buried bones. shown “ blush” “heart
thudding”
Cliché
Simile - of death
but juxtaposed
with heart that is Keep memories and emotions locked away but
alive – physical / when we take them out they can still affect us
strongly even though they are dead and buried