A wider view

Question 1

themes

Answer 1

history
ancestry
industrialiation
time
memory
connection
generations

Question 2

summary

Answer 2

speaker recalls lie of GGGfather Harsh reality but dreams

Question 3

S-FKTSHD

Answer 3

Smoke-filled sky to stack his dreams
* pollution caused by industrialisation symbolising environment limits aspirations
* “stack”-

Question 4

EDWDFTHCFBTCOL

Answer 4

Eyes dry with dust from twelve hours combing flax beneath the conicals of light

Question 5

FEITSG

Answer 5

Footsteps echo in the sodium gloom

Question 6

AHPTPG + TOC

Answer 6

As he passed the panelled gates + “tall octagonal crown”

Question 7

BTLOHWL DTDOE,LAS

Answer 7

Beyond the limits of his working life drowned the din of engines, looms of his working life

Question 8

WIPORB

Answer 8

With imagined peals of ringing bells

Question 9

A Wider view with

Answer 9

• london drawingroom
• portable paradise

Question 10

Wider view and london drawing room similartiies and differences

Answer 10

• sense of harship and struggle
• desire for escape or hope
• focus on industrial - monotony + entrapped

differences
* wider view is more hopeful through connecting past and present, imaging prorgress - drawingroom = hopeless and monotnous - no hope
* many gens- connecting pasts struggles but drawingroom - single moment - static

Question 11

Wider view and portable paradise similartiies and differences

Answer 11

similartieis
* resilience trhough connection through gens
* both poems suggest that what matters most is intangible wider view = legacy, memory paradise = heritage, love

differences
* source of strength- wider view- historical connection paradise - internal and personal
* wider view - ends with a timelss connection but paradise - emphasises the present act of protection