“Why Marriages Fail” is a self-help/personal development book intended to inform married couples how to keep their marriages stand, but while doing that it also includes tips on how to succeed for a calm, pacific marriage. So the audience is not only the married couples but also people who are

The use of quotes from Dr.Stuart Bartle and Dr.Carl Whiteaker in “Why Marriages

The structure of the “Dangling Conversations” is significant since it consists of repeated lines of “in the dangling conversations and superficial sighs the borders of our lives” followed by two verses. This structure is repeated theree times, which gives you empty, trapped feelinf of the couple’s marriage and their ordinary lives.

In “Dangling Conversations” the indifference created due to the couple’s individuality is clearly shown with the stylistic devices. “Like a poem poorly written, we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time” by using assonance he creates a contrast with the couple’s relationship. Unlike the couple the words used at the end of the lines are harmonious, which again prooves that there is no communication between them and as Rophie says “not talking, talking too much, of not listening…prenevt a healthy Exchange of thoughts and feelings”.

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