Links - imagery - tree trunks - Love Songs in Age
- train tracks - Dockey and Son - Here - The Whitsun Weddings
one way conversation - Dockery and Son - 'boredom then fear'
Stanza 1: 'pretty' not usually a word to describe music - shows his mother doesnt know much about his interests - not a close relationship.
'call from the unsatisfactory hall to the unsatisfactory room' - relationship not even in the same room.
its not good enough for him - unsatisfactory.
'wasting my time' - he's just listening to music in a place that doesnt feel like home and he's not getting anywhere.
'home' - should be a refuge and comfort, but he doesnt feel at home there
Stanza 2: 'the flock of notes those antique Negroes blew' - the music of slavery - he feels trapped
'three decades later' - 1953 - he's in his 30's yet acting like a teenager.
'sudden bridge' - between him and his mother - music metaphor
'unsatisfactory age' - old - running out of time
'unsatisfactory prime' - he is the prime age for marriage etc but he hasnt done anything significant - everything is unsatisfactory - he is only looking for things to be satisfactory, he's not even aiming for spectacular.
Stanza 3: 'we are not suited to the long perspectives' - one day at a time - they dont like looking o the future.
'open' - opportunities, life choices - traintrack/tree imagery
'losses, worse, they show us what we have as it once was' - one choice, one future, oneway ticket - dont look back because it shows missed opportunities.
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