Robert Gray’s ‘Journey: the north coast” depicts the idea that rediscovering something that has been concealed can be intensely meaningful towards an individual. This is evident throughout the train journey of the persona, through the use of metaphor in “ One of those bright crockery days”. The use of metaphor is used to represent the aspect of rediscovery as the persona is reminded of his past domestic life when looking out the train window. In addition, there is a comforting freshness and purity in the metaphor describing the morning as it evokes fond memories from the past while the persona returns imaginatively to his formative years on the North coast. The effect of the metaphor is to make the reader connect with the persona during his
