An Easy Passage

Question 1

Silver anklet

Answer 1

Imagery of adult life but also an image of slavery alluding to how she is confided to the conforms of adult expectorations - travel, bills, etc

Question 2

Shade , warm flank

Answer 2

Light vs dark imagery suggesting the future is negative giving the girls hesitancy a meaning. She is only leaning in with a desire to keep the warm flank of childhood

Question 3

Only long stanza

Answer 3

Growing up has no breaks suggesting it is difficult

Question 4

Grains of asphalt , square of petrified beach

Answer 4

Alludes to the difficulties of the climb to adulthood the square of petrified beach also alludes to this yet as a quantitative measure of pain she has experienced . A square being very little

Question 5

Half in love

Answer 5

Erotic relationships before embarking on a more mature relationship when social confinement makes this awkward

Question 6

Flush faced secretary

Answer 6

The adult world literally intrude structurally in the poem as we hear the secretary’s perspective . She also serves as a look into the girls future , that of wishing for something else

Question 7

Subordinate clause

Answer 7

Adds tension in both tfdit and an easy passage

Question 8

Title

Answer 8

Irony