The furthest distances I’ve travelled – Leontia Flynn
Key Points/Arguments
Themes/ideas Literary/Dramatic Devices Whole poem
Still something missing despite ‘the way my spine/ curved under it like a meridian’ – simile, meridian measure Inconsistent line
travels of time and place, loves to travel lengths, metre and
Memories don’t reflect you, also ‘yes. This is how to live.’ – confidence is doing the right thing,medial caesura structure
the belongings you recieve affirmation Enjambments –
‘between/Krakow/and’ – erratically enjambed, her spontaneity emphasise sentences
Our emotional geography, ‘tannoy/anony’- rhyme adds to choppy structure and multiple indentites.
transition, past vs. Present Enjambment anony/mity shows how disjointed Perhaps hasn’t
Our identities are formed by ppl ‘was some kind of destiny’ – consonants – emphasis on certainty travelled, souvenirs
rather than where we go ‘larium’ – has side effects maybe never went due to fear are just local. Realises
‘giro’ – decade ago most important thing
Nostalgia, identity, transition, ‘hasily into a holdball’ – alliteration, why hurry when unpaid bills os emotional
time ‘laundry’ ‘me.’ – rhyme, end of travel, mundane life distances
“alien pants’ – sexual encounters
‘ tiny stowaway pressed flower amid bottom drawers’ – push away Rhyme more regular
“the furthest distances I’ve travelled have been between people’ – near the end
philosophical stanza, no longer thinks travel is way to live, life remains u
settled (enjambments emphasise sentences)
Key Points/Arguments
Themes/ideas Literary/Dramatic Devices Whole poem
Still something missing despite ‘the way my spine/ curved under it like a meridian’ – simile, meridian measure Inconsistent line
travels of time and place, loves to travel lengths, metre and
Memories don’t reflect you, also ‘yes. This is how to live.’ – confidence is doing the right thing,medial caesura structure
the belongings you recieve affirmation Enjambments –
‘between/Krakow/and’ – erratically enjambed, her spontaneity emphasise sentences
Our emotional geography, ‘tannoy/anony’- rhyme adds to choppy structure and multiple indentites.
transition, past vs. Present Enjambment anony/mity shows how disjointed Perhaps hasn’t
Our identities are formed by ppl ‘was some kind of destiny’ – consonants – emphasis on certainty travelled, souvenirs
rather than where we go ‘larium’ – has side effects maybe never went due to fear are just local. Realises
‘giro’ – decade ago most important thing
Nostalgia, identity, transition, ‘hasily into a holdball’ – alliteration, why hurry when unpaid bills os emotional
time ‘laundry’ ‘me.’ – rhyme, end of travel, mundane life distances
“alien pants’ – sexual encounters
‘ tiny stowaway pressed flower amid bottom drawers’ – push away Rhyme more regular
“the furthest distances I’ve travelled have been between people’ – near the end
philosophical stanza, no longer thinks travel is way to live, life remains u
settled (enjambments emphasise sentences)
