Adlestrop

Question 1

context

Answer 1

-autobiographical
-24th June 1914
-Oxfordshire - Gloucestershire

Question 2

form

Answer 2

-4 quatrains
-ABCB
-largely iambic tetrameter
-enjambment/caesura

Question 3

‘because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.’

Answer 3

-adverb of time
-enjambment puts focus on heat
-adverb - surprise/moment of peace that was gifted
-caesura - date being so significance

Question 4

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform.

Answer 4

-sibilance - creating vivid image of silence being broken by subtle sounds
-caesura
-sensory images
-suggests isolation

Question 5

‘What I saw
Was Adlestrop - only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry’

Answer 5

-enjambment places emphasis on aspects of nature (semantic field of nature)
-anaphora
-list

Question 6

‘And for that minuet a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mustier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.’

Answer 6

-adverbial of time - even though it was a small moment, the impact was profound
-moment of joy
-repetition
-hyperbole - it felt like that