'How does Tony Harrison use language, form and structure to present grief in ‘Long Distance II’?\r'

'The poem ‘Long Distance II’ tackles the issue of bereavement and the emotions that are connected. In this poem, the verbalizer seems to be able to lintel with the death of his m opposite and believes in a matter-of-factly fashion that â€Å"life ends with death”, barely we learn that in reality he still feels grief and â€Å"c whollys the disconnected payoff” for his mother and father who have two passed away. The poet (Tony Harrison) uses few devices. This avoids an e trulywherely constructed and artificial look as Harrison wants to strike a to a greater extent natural conversational tone.He uses words such as â€Å"he’d” and â€Å" arouse’t” to make the piece to a greater extent understated and less theatrical. The use of enjambement also reinforces this idea. By running over lines, the poem becomes less methodical and well-planned knocked out(p) and much natural, as if it’s more of private confession rather than a social coordinate poem. save the poet does discretely insert a slight personification when he denotation’s his father’s â€Å" crank kip down”. Love is an abstract noun †something you terminate’t hear, taste, smell, see or touch. However Harrison decides to personify it, making it more serviceman and fleshy.He makes love seem no long invincible and robust, but instead makes it seem vulnerable and subject to injury. On the other hand, you could interpret the personified phrase â€Å"raw love”, in the way of his father’s heart beingness torn plainspoken by grief, revealing the fleshy provoke which is still taking time to repossess over. The poet bases his poem on the traditional sonnet. A sonnet is usually about love, and although this doesn’t immediately strike you as being a love poem, the primary heart is that love and affection never authentically dies.The writer has chosen to stick to the basic, decreasin g monotonic â€Å"abab” rhyme scheme of a sonnet. This shows him as being level-headed and passionless, as the scheme is in truth rigid and regular. The use of iambic pentameter moreover rachiss this up. Iambic pentameter is very regimental with dialect on every other syllable. This again demonstrates his ability to remain stable during the sorrow period. However, in the final quatrain, instead of stopping point it with the usual conclusive rhyming couplet, he brings in a completely in the raw(a) rhyme scheme.This shows him losing control, letting go of expectations and displace out his raw emotions that he was prior masking with his applicatory and detached appearance. This surprises the contributor as it invites a completely new dimension and tone to the poem that is very unexpected. The poem is exactly 16 lines long. Although a sonnet is usually 14 lines long, this likewise reinforces the idea of a sonnet. Initially, the speaker unit uses free-spoken linguist ic communication to expose his seemingly practical and pragmatic response to bereavement.Harrison uses the word â€Å" absolutely” to show the speakers lack of euphemism. Whereas many plurality would subtly say that someone passed away, the speaker tells us in a great forward way that his mum is â€Å" assassinated”. This coincides with when he tells us in a no-nonsense way that â€Å"life ends with death, and that is all”. However later on in the poem we find out that the speaker does miss his parents and still has their number in his â€Å"black whip phone phonograph recording” which he calls.Although we may now work out that the speaker is over his earlier emotionless self, the use of the words â€Å"black” and â€Å"leather” connotates coldness and masculinity linking directly back to his previous business-like attitude. Tony Harrison has used language, form and structure very effectively to capture the emotions of those grieving. H e used specifically chosen language that showed informality yet decisiveness and structured his poem so that it represented the unadulterated love sonnet but with a modern twist.\r\n'