Afternoons
Dull, monotonous
Simple
Ambiguous
“Summer is _____”
summer is fading
- declarative sentence
- summer = symbol for someone stuck in middle of their life
“In the _____ of afternoons”
& context
in the hollows of afternoons
- adj = empty,
- dull lives britain was slow to recover from war
“_____ them…stand husbands”
behind them…stand husbands
- not in the picture
- emotionally unsupportive
“The _____ are all in _____”
& context
the lovers are all in school
- immaturity “baby boom of 50s”
increase in council houses - people move out younger
“Something is _____ them to the _____ of their own lives”
something is pushing them to the side of their own lives
- ambiguous tone
- growing old too fast
Structure & context
no rhymes and not poetic
shows the postmodern England life = empty and dull
