Love Poems
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The introductory stanza sets the scene in a 'run down' part of Merseyside. A metaphor is used as early as the first stanza; 'far from the blind windows of the tower blocks.'
Straight away we can sense that the atmosphere of the poem is dark and uneasy and we can get the impression that something is going to go wrong.
In the second verse we get can sense cheapness and superficiality:
'Leather jacket creaking madly.'
We get the gist of the poem whenever we find out that he male who she is with hands her a bottle of vodka and calls her a 'little slag.'
We learn of the girl's naivety and innocence and we feel sorry for her as the alcohol consumes her and she is rendered helpless. 'She had nodded, quite enchanted' supports this theory.
The opening line of verse four is, I feel, the most powerful and meaningful line in the entire poem:
"As he bought her more drinks, so she fell in love." Also in this stanza there is the first evidence of sexual contact when he 'stroked her neck and thighs'
We find out about the boy and his background in the fifth stanza:
"I' ...
