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TITLE
Echoes last line of second stanza - highlights claustrophobic, oppressive environment on industrial Leeds
Evokes contemporary perspective where the speaker is able to have 'a wider view' of hindsight and peer into the past
THEMES
Metaphysics
Ancestry
Connections
Oppression
Time
Heritage
Nature
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Unrhymed free verse: Not bounded by rules (of time)
Each stanza with five lines except fourth stanza: Temporal axis, shift in time (past - present - outside time)
KEY QUOTES
"my great-great-grandad searched for spaces / in the smoke-filled sky to stack his dreams"
"In eighteen sixty-nine, eyes dry with dust / from twelve hours combing flax.."
"he craved the comfort of a wider view."
"drew his sights beyond the limits of his working life / drowned the din of engines, looms and shuttles"
"the red-brick vaults / being to moan as time, collapsing in the River Aire"
"We stand now, timeless in the flux of time"
"while the curve of past and future generations / arcs between us"
CONTEXT
Leeds, UK
Part of a commission for Leeds Architecture Week
Industrial revolution
Connection to heritage/ancestry
LANGUAGE
Enjambment
Alliteration
Sibilance
Caesura
Metaphor
Personification
WRITTEN BY SENI SENEVIRATNE