Distinctive compassion with suffering – use of punctuation to affect pace – slows down to mimic the delay of sound across the water
Places – distinctive style Places
distinctive style
Distinctive use of sound effect – sibilance and alliteration convey the sounds of nature, emphasising the absence of people
Atmospheric description of place using distinctive assonance creates rhythm and pace: ‘Cerulean distance, an oceanic haze – / nothing but sea-smoke to the ice-cap/ and the odd somnolent freighter’
Sea motif
‘Antarctica ’ Assonance – distinctive style: ‘He leaves them reading and begins to climb ,/ goading his ghost into the howling snow’
Villanelle structure – significance of layout
Mahon’s distinctive sympathy for the individual conveyed through metaphor
Dramatic setting based on historical events – distinctive style