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Poems: Friend (He presents a memory of the rich food of his childhood…

- - - - the abundance of food.
- - - - them,
      - their friendship
      - their childhood,
      - their home.
- - - - lack of childish imagination
      - or Maori culture.
- - - - pain, final.
- - - - the childhood games,
      - hopes and dreams
      - and friendship
      - (and their innocence/ culture?)
      - this has gone, symbolising the loss of childhood/ friendship.
    - - shows the pain by making the lines short and awkward to read.
      - The full stop at the end shows that this has been lost permanently.
    - - speaker’s care for it
    - - ‘no silken tracery’
      - beautiful, delicate (fragile) and decorative image
    - - the image shows that the ground is dry, barren, broken.
      - Alliteration is harsh and shows the pain of the speaker.
      - Implies that the land is dead,
        
        as their friendship is?
        
        Or the culture?
  - - - = hope
  - - - shown in the sibilance
      - and long vowel sounds (assonance).
  - - - image of snapped rope
- - - - little care for nature
      - and the tree which was protecting them,
      - playing at war… foreshadowing real conflict?
  - - - rotten and weak;
      - friendship has gone
      - the protection from growing up has disappeared;
    - - colourless,
      - symbolising the loss of the childhood friendship and happiness.