2. Pot

Question 1

What are the 5 key themes included in Pot

Answer 1

Identity and culture, family heritage, belonging, migration, power and authority

Question 2

What is the poem pot about?

Answer 2

The narrator is talking directly to a Nigerian pot in a museum in Manchester. The narrator is questioning how it came to be there and then the narrator links the fate of the pot to other people who have left their homeland and how those people must feel.

Question 3

What are the 2 feelings and attitudes shown in the poem?

Answer 3

curiosity and anger

Question 4

a quote that show curiosity and anger of narrator

Answer 4

‘but I need you to tell me the rest pot’- key word ‘you’, ‘tell’- asking the question shows curiosity and repetition of pot shows frustration and anger, also ‘tell me’ shows urgency as very direct

Question 5

Quote that highlights power and authority theme- is uses a word that can mean ‘destined’ or ‘tied up’ which links the pot to enslaved people who were transported against their will

Answer 5

‘bound for England’ key word bound

Question 6

Quote that singles out the pot as an individual and humanises it.

Answer 6

‘someone, somewhere will have missed you pot- key word missed- as you miss a person when they have gone

Question 7

Quote that shows frustration and outrage of narrator about things then from their home land they are prepared to use force to get the pot back home.

Answer 7

‘if I could shatter this glass I would take you back myself pot’- key word shatter and key word pot.