ACTHSG

Question 1

ACTHSG poet + context

Answer 1

Joanna Baillie

Oldest poem in collection

Romantics wrote poems about ordinary people

Question 2

ACTHSG quotes

Answer 2

‘They say you’re old ‘

3 tenses : ‘Was’ ‘are’ ‘ill’

‘You do not hear me , dad ‘

Rhyming couplets

Last few stanzas speaker more mature : ‘ I’ll sit and talk with you’ and tells a ‘wonderful tale ‘ involving ‘glittering swords ‘