Louis MacNeice's Meeting Point

... Section A: Practical Criticism No reference to secondary criticism is required; this exercise is designed to test your close reading skills. Pay careful attention to the language of the following POEM and comment, as appropriate, on such technical features as form, syntax, rhythm, tone diction, imagery, voice, point of view and rhyme. How are these features implicated in interpretation? Louis MacNeice's Meeting Point is a lyric poem consisting of eight stanzas, with five lines in each. Its appearance on the page is structured and regular, however, counteracting the poem's idea of time being 'away and somewhere else.' Each stanza's first and last line are the same, almost reaffirming that individual stanza's idea, each one containing a refrain, carrying it's own little segment of the lover's journey. For example, in the first stanza the line 'Time was away and somewhere else', is this stanza's mantra and it is explored through the numbers in

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