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I am analysing a poetry collection for college and one poem is 'Unbearable Weight of Staying' by Warsan Shire. She includes both regular and italicised type in the text, e.g:

I don't know when love became elusive. My mother's laughter in a dark room.

Would it be appropriate to refer to the impact the italics has on readers (for example, how it conveys two voices and furthers a theme of duplicity)? Or focus purely on the words rather than the formatting? I have scoured my specification (AQA Eng. Lit. A Level, Spec. B, Component 3) for an answer but to no avail.

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Anything intentionally done in the poem is part of its structure. Italics vs. regular text are clearly done for effect. These are reasonable elements to discuss.

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