The wind of the Downs:
"It seemed impossible that you should die"
The wind of the Downs, by Marian Allen is a poem which uses some imagery and all of the similies and the repetition of; You, I, Me and We are all bits of figurative language that help serve the big idea in this poem. The big idea of the poem is that Marian Allen can't remember her boyfriends face but she can only remember his khaki figure. An example of imagery of sight from the poem is "In khaki tunic. Sam Brown belt and all..." This quote makes us get the idea of how she can only imagine her boyfriend in the khaki tunic which is his soldier uniform and so this example of imagery makes us see that picture of him in his uniform. The fact that the poem is based on Marian and her feelings when her boyfriend had to leave her to join the war, it uses a lot of repetition of I, You, Me, We and this makes it stronger because we get an opinion from a woman experiencing her boyfriend in the war and how terrified she is that he would be dead, but she still believes that he is not dead. She can only remember him in his khaki tunic and not his face or how he used to be, this is why the first stanza of the poem is about her describing him as she wants to see him and not imagine that he could be dead. The second stanza of the poem is about her remembering and describing their old memories of what they used to do together and how she is now doing them alone, but she doesn't want to be thinking that he is dead so she is still waiting for him to come back from the war again.