Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market: Verse paragraph 3

The verse paragraph uses metaphors. The metaphors help use to visualize the shape of the tuna and how it coarses through the sea.

The third verse paragraph compares the tuna to a "dark bullet", and a "sea-javelin" showing us how streamline and fast it is. 

The word "barrled" is a metaphor that shows us the tuna is accelerating like bullet barreled out of a gun. The phrase "locked into the current" says that the fish is moving with the current of the sea and cannot escape it.

In conclusion, the third verse paragraph talks about how swift and aerodynamic the tuna is. It also talks about how free-flowing the tuna is.

Only you: 

dark bullet 

barreled   

from the depths, 

carrying   

only   

your   

one wound, 

but resurgent, 

always renewed, 

locked into the current, 

fins fletched 

like wings 

in the torrent, 

in the coursing 

of 

the 

underwater 

dark, 

like a grieving arrow, 

sea-javelin, a nerveless   

oiled harpoon.

Laundrette: Stanza 6

This is the 6th stanza from the poem "Laudrette", the poem Laundrette is about people living in a poor part of the neighbor hood and going to the laudrette because they have to wash their clothes.

Deadpan before the rinse and sluice of the family bagwash

The woman has a deadpan expression, beacause she is miserable. She is miserable because she has promblems with her family and thus is unsatisfied with her life.

"Let them stew in their juice"

It has a double meaning, let the clothes wash in their dirty wash water, or let them fight their own battles.

She sees a kaleidoscope

She sees all the colors of the clothes blended in the washing machine.

In conclusion, the 6th stanza is about a depressed women who has problems with her family.