Reading Journal - Miss Gee

• Poem is in the tune of St. James's Infirmary - blues, sets the tone for the entire poem
• Location - street name - Clevedon Terrace, sounds domestic, homely and friendly however is the opposite to Miss Gee; she is alone
• Ballad form - relates to song
• Voice is objective - very detached, unemotional, reinforces that Miss Gee had no one
• Mood is very depressing - 'Does anyone care that I live in Clevedon Terrace, on one hundred pounds a year?'
• Symbolism - 'And a bull with the face of the vicar was charging with a lowered horn' - sexualised? she is alone, spinster, raunchy dreams, or, a warning of her illness
• Linear chronology - beginning, middle, end - suggests a childs story, cautionary tale?
• Religion - 'clothes buttoned up to her neck', 'no bust at all' - not sexualised in any way, devout Christian 
• Mocking religion? - she went to church and prayed but still was punished with illness, 'dissected her knee'
• Nusery rhyme? - its a song, it has a macabre theme, much like other nursery rhymes, e.g. ring a ring a roses
• Voice change - doctor, wife and Miss Gee are used to tell story - the use of the doctor and his wife may be used to seperate Miss Gee further as she is alone with no husband?