Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Long Distance ll
- Key quotes
- "Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas"
- "put hot water bottles her side of the bed"
- "and still went to renew her transport pass."
- "You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone."
- "He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief"
- "as though his still raw love was such a crime"
- "rusted lock"
- "end his grief"
- "in my new black leather phone book there's your name and the disconnected number i still call"
- Structure
- Regular, 4 stanzas and 4 lines
- Alternating rhyme
scheme, ABAB - until last
stanza where it changes
to ABBA
- Reflecting the fact that the final stanza is about
the narrators actions not the fathers
- Form
- In the 1st,2nd and 3rd stanza it is written in third
person and past tense
- In the last stanza it is written in first person and past tense
- Themes
- Family
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Love after death