An Easy Passage

Question 1

‘Once’

Answer 1

begins with time what poem is about liminality

Question 2

‘passage;

Answer 2

liminal connects two adulthood and childhood

Question 3

‘halfway up there’

Answer 3

neither here nor there adolescence

Question 4

stucture

Answer 4

free verse conversational relatable transition adult to child

Question 5

‘croucher in her bikini on the porch roof’

Answer 5

enjambment, journey of childhood, everchanging contrasts to final lines on adulthood more stable

Question 6

‘blond’

Answer 6

beginning of words with lexical field of light ‘lit’ ‘gold’

- in its masculinity form juxtaposes softness and feminity and hardness masculinity

Question 7

‘what can she know’

Answer 7

hyphen= stops story, narrator reflects presented as an adult- omniscinet

Question 8

‘gold’

‘long grey’

Answer 8

juxtaposes ‘litness’ within children - monotnous nature of adulthood - lamentful

Question 9

‘most far from the flush faced secretary’

Answer 9

alliteration associating career with discomfort

physical distancfe fear of transitiomn

Question 10

‘dropping gracefully into the shade of the house;

Answer 10

impending domestic life