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Genre ‘On The Black Hill’ – Novel ‘Long Distance’ – Poem Possibly the poem is a lot more concentrated, as poems are never as long as novels. ‘On The Black Hill’, is a lot less concentrated than ‘Long Distance’. A poem has to distil that essence of everything, in less space than a novel. A prose is a concentrated version of the above. In each extract there is a son, and in each extract, the son’s …

…that she is dead and gone, but about his resolve to still keep her alive and doing all the little mundane things for her that he must have been doing for the many years that they were married for. The poem is very graphic and visual. The poem is really about the writers’ own struggle to accept the finality of his parents’ death and his own refusal to see them as disconnected from his life.