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Family, Border Country Farther Stitch in Time Evolving
parents, relationships
connecti Poem earmarked Positioned just Love and with father
on. early on in lifespan, after ‘border sacrifice in a figures,
adolescent country’ in the family for later growing
Coming discovery of death collection – benefit. understanding
of age? and burden parents Sheers reflecting Separation of of distance,
can carry through on his own distance and burdens and
his friends’ fathers’ relationship with time is sacrifice.
suicide. his father and incomparable Separation of
‘Your father found the distance in the face of death,
at dawn, a poppy between them love. Contrast distance, time.
sewn in unripe considering the to earlier in Explored
corn’ death. Cherish collection, the through
Violent and harsh connection, son’s naturalistic
imagery illustrating more aware of perspective, imagery,
the reality of death. time passing. now in 2nd half appreciation of
‘unripe corn’ may Title – a with Sheers’ the land and
be symbolic of his homophone for maturity he surroundings.
son, a boy not yet ‘father’. Both can
grown having to find a common understand Border country
deal with the ground in nature, why. – farmers in
burden of an ‘intersection’ rural Wales
‘remembrance’ as of their lives, ‘across three (where sheers
symbolised by the walking the seas’. had grown up)
poppy at such a skirrid. First time ‘Checking were struggling
young age. Unripe the hill is again and economically
corn = white, mentioned in again his stab in the
damaged purity. poetic form, and pad stitch’ 2000s/1990s
displaying him Resilience and due to mad
‘Shouldering the commencing his determination cow disease
kick of your father’s journey/ learning of the man to epidemic. Lot
shotgun’ curve of self- succeed for less business
Ponders not only discovery and ‘he thinks of leading to high
the activities value of his wife, his suicide rates.
farmers would do connection after wife’ his family
to bond with their Border country? and success. Farther –
sons but also the Resonates how considers grief
darker euphemism his father also ‘ten years later ‘loss of his son
of the suicide and walked a similar when he to man’
the impact on philosophical returned for his through a local
livelihood. wife he Welsh legend
, Structure path in his life – brought her talking of
No regular rhyme all of us do. back to show God’s grief
scheme. Chaos in her the life’ after Jesus'
reaction to ‘every step apart crucifixion.
discovery of death is another closer ‘the still point
and breaks in to you’ after the strife,
familial connection. Each day spent the first stitch
on Earth, can to the pattern
better he cut his life’
understand each Ability to
other, same choose your
experiences of own fate,
life. Distance is better your
not as great as it own life –
seems, despite moment of
taking the ‘long clarity after his
way round’ over own
‘broken stone’, experiences
they can stand and family
‘together against have been
the view’ created.
Resonated
structure with sheers’
Rhyming couplet learning curve.
at end, rounds
off his Structure -
concluding Rhyming
thought that love couplets
united prevails demonstrate
over barriers. constant links
between the
Title/ man and his
wife.
Connection
perseveres
despite
distance and
time.
Death Border country Y Gaer/The hill The Wake Learning curve
fort - Sheer’s own
Poem depicts Penultimate relationship
death – its personal Half-way point of poem of the with death and
impact to those the collection, collection. grief that
nearest to the turning point of Acceptance, follows. Border
person before death’s effect. acknowledges country – first
zooming out and Acceptance is depth of the raw experience
demonstrating to on the horizon. absence with of it, shock and
, the reader how Two poems, two acceptance denial. Y Gaer/
natural it is, how it perspectives of that he is no Hill fort being a
seamlessly blends one matter. longer deeper
into nature and Diptych. suffering. experience of
time with little Viewing nature Death is now the complexity
wider impact. as the enemy, celebrated as of grief. Denial,
place to displace natural. anger and the
‘shouldering the anger towards process of
kick of your father’s death. ‘looks me trying to work
shotgun’ straight in the through it. The
‘your father found Speaker adopts eye’ ‘and tells Wake, final
at dawn – a poppy the me he doesn’t and evolved
sown in unripe tone/perspective want this, to mature
corn’ of a strategist. watch himself perspective of
Impact and ‘Its only die’ death as a
shocking images of defences now, a Blunt, honest natural part of
death to cut the ring of gorse’ with direct life (nature
reader deep as the gaze. Dying is image
speaker’s friend ‘my horse’ ‘her not the issue, associated
felt. Image analysis nostrils, full of but how. throughout).
etc smoking
embers’ ‘stands in the Border country
‘pitched you, Anthroporthomis frame to wave – farmer
without notice head ed horse, me away we suicides,
first through the reflects imagery both know perhaps the
windscreen of your of Welsh dragon. there has zoom out
youth’ Anger conflicts already been a reflects how,
Impact of death, with serenity of passing’ once the
separation and nature. Sense of scandal and
loss. finality, the suicides
‘comes here only frame also occurred and
‘before spiralling in bad weather’ meaning the were ‘rectified’
upwards above the ‘shout into the threshold life was to
shuffling trees and storm, finding at between life carry on as
on over the fields’ last, something and death. normal.
Banal realisation huge enough to Acceptance of Stages of grief
life just carries on blame’ both that he represented
despite the empty Catharsis of has just been are denial,
space, the life anger, effect of waiting for his shock.
changing event left death/ grief. time – felt dead
behind. Feels stage of a long time. Stages of grief?
anger to work Transition of denial, anger,
Structure through grief. body to spirit. bargaining,
No regular rhyme depression
scheme, reflects Hill fort ‘left a wake as and
disorder of thought that of a great acceptance
in reaction to grief. ship that
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Theme/ti Poem 1 quote Poem 2 quote Poem 3 quote Link + context
tle analysis analysis analysis
Family, Border Country Farther Stitch in Time Evolving
parents, relationships
connecti Poem earmarked Positioned just Love and with father
on. early on in lifespan, after ‘border sacrifice in a figures,
adolescent country’ in the family for later growing
Coming discovery of death collection – benefit. understanding
of age? and burden parents Sheers reflecting Separation of of distance,
can carry through on his own distance and burdens and
his friends’ fathers’ relationship with time is sacrifice.
suicide. his father and incomparable Separation of
‘Your father found the distance in the face of death,
at dawn, a poppy between them love. Contrast distance, time.
sewn in unripe considering the to earlier in Explored
corn’ death. Cherish collection, the through
Violent and harsh connection, son’s naturalistic
imagery illustrating more aware of perspective, imagery,
the reality of death. time passing. now in 2nd half appreciation of
‘unripe corn’ may Title – a with Sheers’ the land and
be symbolic of his homophone for maturity he surroundings.
son, a boy not yet ‘father’. Both can
grown having to find a common understand Border country
deal with the ground in nature, why. – farmers in
burden of an ‘intersection’ rural Wales
‘remembrance’ as of their lives, ‘across three (where sheers
symbolised by the walking the seas’. had grown up)
poppy at such a skirrid. First time ‘Checking were struggling
young age. Unripe the hill is again and economically
corn = white, mentioned in again his stab in the
damaged purity. poetic form, and pad stitch’ 2000s/1990s
displaying him Resilience and due to mad
‘Shouldering the commencing his determination cow disease
kick of your father’s journey/ learning of the man to epidemic. Lot
shotgun’ curve of self- succeed for less business
Ponders not only discovery and ‘he thinks of leading to high
the activities value of his wife, his suicide rates.
farmers would do connection after wife’ his family
to bond with their Border country? and success. Farther –
sons but also the Resonates how considers grief
darker euphemism his father also ‘ten years later ‘loss of his son
of the suicide and walked a similar when he to man’
the impact on philosophical returned for his through a local
livelihood. wife he Welsh legend
, Structure path in his life – brought her talking of
No regular rhyme all of us do. back to show God’s grief
scheme. Chaos in her the life’ after Jesus'
reaction to ‘every step apart crucifixion.
discovery of death is another closer ‘the still point
and breaks in to you’ after the strife,
familial connection. Each day spent the first stitch
on Earth, can to the pattern
better he cut his life’
understand each Ability to
other, same choose your
experiences of own fate,
life. Distance is better your
not as great as it own life –
seems, despite moment of
taking the ‘long clarity after his
way round’ over own
‘broken stone’, experiences
they can stand and family
‘together against have been
the view’ created.
Resonated
structure with sheers’
Rhyming couplet learning curve.
at end, rounds
off his Structure -
concluding Rhyming
thought that love couplets
united prevails demonstrate
over barriers. constant links
between the
Title/ man and his
wife.
Connection
perseveres
despite
distance and
time.
Death Border country Y Gaer/The hill The Wake Learning curve
fort - Sheer’s own
Poem depicts Penultimate relationship
death – its personal Half-way point of poem of the with death and
impact to those the collection, collection. grief that
nearest to the turning point of Acceptance, follows. Border
person before death’s effect. acknowledges country – first
zooming out and Acceptance is depth of the raw experience
demonstrating to on the horizon. absence with of it, shock and
, the reader how Two poems, two acceptance denial. Y Gaer/
natural it is, how it perspectives of that he is no Hill fort being a
seamlessly blends one matter. longer deeper
into nature and Diptych. suffering. experience of
time with little Viewing nature Death is now the complexity
wider impact. as the enemy, celebrated as of grief. Denial,
place to displace natural. anger and the
‘shouldering the anger towards process of
kick of your father’s death. ‘looks me trying to work
shotgun’ straight in the through it. The
‘your father found Speaker adopts eye’ ‘and tells Wake, final
at dawn – a poppy the me he doesn’t and evolved
sown in unripe tone/perspective want this, to mature
corn’ of a strategist. watch himself perspective of
Impact and ‘Its only die’ death as a
shocking images of defences now, a Blunt, honest natural part of
death to cut the ring of gorse’ with direct life (nature
reader deep as the gaze. Dying is image
speaker’s friend ‘my horse’ ‘her not the issue, associated
felt. Image analysis nostrils, full of but how. throughout).
etc smoking
embers’ ‘stands in the Border country
‘pitched you, Anthroporthomis frame to wave – farmer
without notice head ed horse, me away we suicides,
first through the reflects imagery both know perhaps the
windscreen of your of Welsh dragon. there has zoom out
youth’ Anger conflicts already been a reflects how,
Impact of death, with serenity of passing’ once the
separation and nature. Sense of scandal and
loss. finality, the suicides
‘comes here only frame also occurred and
‘before spiralling in bad weather’ meaning the were ‘rectified’
upwards above the ‘shout into the threshold life was to
shuffling trees and storm, finding at between life carry on as
on over the fields’ last, something and death. normal.
Banal realisation huge enough to Acceptance of Stages of grief
life just carries on blame’ both that he represented
despite the empty Catharsis of has just been are denial,
space, the life anger, effect of waiting for his shock.
changing event left death/ grief. time – felt dead
behind. Feels stage of a long time. Stages of grief?
anger to work Transition of denial, anger,
Structure through grief. body to spirit. bargaining,
No regular rhyme depression
scheme, reflects Hill fort ‘left a wake as and
disorder of thought that of a great acceptance
in reaction to grief. ship that
