Television screen
The first stanza immediately hits the main issue which is the distance between the poet and the Welsh critic to whom she addresses the poem while indirectly addressing the entire western society. She begins with the words "you believe you know me" moving towards the ending lines in the stanza "while my country detonates on your television screen". This emphasizes the detachment that the addressee has with the poet and her culture and everything he believes he knows about her comes from a TV screen rather than from experience.
Edwardian vicarage
The Welsh critic, the addressee of the message, is criticized for his knowledge, or lack thereof, about the poet and her culture. The second stanza talks about his supposition about the poet's desires: "You imagine you've cracked my deepest fantasy". That fantasy, he supposes, is of course to be in an Edwardian vicarage meaning to be a part of the western culture. The cynical tone in this stanza, the entire poem actually, is not to be ignored.
Mouth
Towards the end of the fourth stanza after the striking usage of the stylistic figure anaphora the poet turns to vivid description of the mouth with terms relating to it: "the pathology of my breath, the halitosis of gender". The poet wants to further point out that judgment and distance that the addressee throws her way. At first, she discusses his judgment of her based on the use of language and with these lines it is if she is encouraging him, cynically of course, to judge her based on these things as well.
