English Literature Poetry - Song for Last Year's Wife
- Created by: Laura J Thomas - Team GR
- Created on: 30-03-13 21:03
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- Song for Last Year's Wife
- 'Song'
- express emotions
- 'Last Year's'
- implies there will be another; replacement
- 'Wife'
- speaker is ex-husband
- 'Alice'
- direct address
- 'winter'
- season of loss/death
- 'dressed in familiar clothes'
- obsessive; perceptive of body
- 'elsewhere'
- her freedom; his loss
- 'conscious of our anniversary'
- hasn't moved on; self-pity; obsessive
- 'empty'
- lonely; something missing
- 'I wake with another mouth feeding from me'
- pretending to move on; sexual jealousy; paracitic
- 'Love had not the right to walk out of me
- angry; controlling
- 'when I wake'
- first thought in morning
- 'touched by this same hour'
- tries to find a connection
- 'touches me'
- his loss touches him; still affected by it
- 'A year now'
- not moved on; obsessive
- 'So what? you say'
- ex-wife doesn't care
- 'I send out my spies'
- possessive; obsessive
- 'I imagine you'
- obsessive; not over her
- 'warm and inviting as when they knew you first'
- she has been with them sexually too
- 'firm'
- sensuality
- 'warm and inviting'
- was a nice person
- 'isolation from other seasons'
- lonely season; lonely person
- 'Song'
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