Last Visit to 198 Cathedral Road

In this poem we see the persona returning to an old house , somewhere he would've once called home. The persona is reexamining the room, he sat in his fathers arm chair whilst he "hosed" the objects in the room with his "surgeons pocket torch". The second stanza, seems to be brought alive with the poets use of personification, where we see a vase that "yawned hideously", along with "the awakened empty fruit bowl", they all share the same fear of light known as "photophobic". By using personification, the poet could be showing the suggesting that he isn't alone in this room and all the objects have a  personal connection towards him. A sense of "omnipotent" starts off the 3rd stanza,  when the darkness the persona returns too, showing the "room that was out of breath" and that ties in well adjective at the end of the stanza "nothing".