In ‘Bitter-Berry Daybreak’ the remembrance of lost love and betrayal is the central theme which runs its course throughout all five stanzas. Metaphorical language is used to foreground feelings of not being listened to or being heard. For instance, the personalised “Echo” is all that is left of the betrayed lover’s voice, and yet it is also the betraying “other” who has chosen to take his emotions on an alternative route. He does not answer the spurned lover’s pleas, but chooses to reply to other voices, ‘Echo gives no answer; He answers
