Across
- 3. School subjects
- 6. Speaker creates a fictional life of her dead mother
- 7. Speaker is sad about the decline of the Western world
- 10. Title translates to mother stood - alluding to a Christian hymn about Mary
- 11. Presents 2 opposing outlooks on love
- 12. Speaker wants land to die like it's wild inhabitants
- 13. relinquishment of love & emotions
- 16. contains symbolism of hemlock flowers
- 17. About love and committment and the poets last name looks like toilet
- 18. Green hair creatures!
Down
- 1. Incorporates economic and political lexis to emphasise the downfall of American life via crony capitalism
- 2. woman is portrayed as an otherworldly being
- 4. A father feels estranged from his family & modern world
- 5. Zimbabwe's colonisation
- 6. Night described as a carpet
- 8. god is merciful and caring
- 9. Municipal pipes mentioned
- 14. Feminist depicted as Jesus
- 15. unrequited love is conveyed through a nature extended metaphor