A Dreaming Week

Question 1

name the 4 main themes

Answer 1

dying love/escapism/avoidance/literature

Question 2

natural imagery

Answer 2

comfort, familiarity, ‘tides’ link to white writing

Question 3

personification

Answer 3

midnight- comfort and romanticising the darkness as avoidance of the truth, end of the relationship

Question 4

rhetorical denial + temporal location

Answer 4

‘not tonight’ - avoiding sexual advances, self isolation

caesura emphasises partners disappointment

Question 5

semantics of transport

Answer 5

boat + ark - mirror her drifting away from the relationship, arks biblical references her seeing safety in this yet ironic since in pairs, draws parallels to the melancholy

Question 6

metaphor

Answer 6

book + bird - freedom in writing, escapism, comfort for her, whisk her away

Question 7

enjambement

Answer 7

flowing drowsy nature of the poem

Question 8

7 sestets

Answer 8

counting down the days to decide, dragging out of time, days feel the same

Question 9

lack of rhyme scheme

Answer 9

soporific atmosphere, lullaby, avoidance

Question 10

internal rhyme

Answer 10

mirrors theme of poetry, pushed time slowly forward