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one colour, which may signify a boring colourless relationship.
“Two willow leaves glide smoothly on
The water’s shimmering skin;”
This is an example of ‘Enjambment’. It describes the leaves floating smoothly but apart from each other. The use of enjambment here helps the rhythm of the poem carry on smoothly like the leaves gliding. It could signify the two people still going on in life smoothly but not together. When he says “the water’s shimmering skin” it gives the impression of being murky below and shiny on top. This could show there is more to the relationship than what people see initially or that when the relationship was still happening it may have looked alright to everyone else watching but there were things going on beneath the surface that weren’t alright.
“Once, on a branch in the sun, they danced
And often touched each other;
They will not touch each other again,”
In the relationship this ...

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this complements the flowing, smooth, gliding rhythm of the poem.

In the poem “Dismissal” the poet describes the relationship breakdown very much like a story. In the whole poem he uses “Enjambment” and the poem has a very continuous rhythm he also doesn’t use rhyme or assanance which also adds to its story-like quality.
The poet describes;
“To this day I remember
that alcove: flaked coffee-coloured
paint, an ashtray spilling, two
vodkas.”
This gives you a dingy, dreary mental image of a bar or pub, which complements the dark tone of the poem, which is a good use of ‘Pathetic fallacy’
“‘Oh,’
I said, as ...

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