Anthology

Question 1

The City Planners - Atwood

Answer 1

• Order, control and madness
• Humanity’s destruction of the environment
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• sickening perfection
• flaws
• criticising and mocking

Question 2

The planners

Answer 2

• The cost of modernity
• human progress vs nature
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• The dehumanising effect of urbanisation
• The loss of history and cultural identity
• Effect of urbanisation on humans

Question 3

The man with the night sweats

Answer 3

• Illness, vulnerability, mortality
• Pain and suffering
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• contrast between state and dreams of heat and prosperity they have experienced
• celebrating the body and it’s ability to heal itself, pleasure and risk with exploring it
• reflects on damage done to body and mind
• shows vulnerability, mortality and protecting self

Question 4

Night Sweat

Answer 4

• Creative anxiety and self doubt
• The power of pain and relationships
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• Describing the fever
• power of pain
• power of relationships

Question 5

Rain

Answer 5

• The inevitability of death
• Relief of death
• Solitude and Sympathy
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• Rain and solitude
• Blessings ad worries
• Helplessness and mortality

Question 6

The spirit is too blunt an instrument

Answer 6

Perfection of the Body vs Messiness of Spirit
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- Establishes theme
- Describing the physical details of the body
- Messiness of the spirit

Question 7

From long distance

Answer 7

• Death grief, denial
• Persistence of Love
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• Domestic images to show inability to move on
• Hiding pain, ashamed, trying to look strong
• Unable to confront truth
• Speaker s grief, also holding on

Question 8

Funeral Blues

Answer 8

Greif and Isolation
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- Disruption
- Public grief
- personal grief
- cosmic

Question 9

He never expected much

Answer 9

Realism and Acceptance
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- Speaking to the world, reflation, life has been as expected
- Voice of the world, responds
- Ways of seeing life
- worlds ordinary promises
- Enduring pain due to low expectations

Question 10

The telephone call

Answer 10

• Hope and Disappointment
• Illusion and experience
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• Illusion
• Experience
• Experience
• Hope
• Hope
• Dissapointment

Question 11

A consumers Report

Answer 11

• The disappointment and rewards of life
• Consumerism and Cynicism
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• Evaluation of life as a product
• Consumerism
• Reflection, death

Question 12

Request to a year

Answer 12

• The role of the artist
• Motherhood and female strength
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• Introduction to the gg.grandmother, tribute x2
• Painting an image with words x2
• Presenting the import role of an artist
• Admiration of quality

Question 13

On finding a small fly crushed in a book

Answer 13

Death and Legacy
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- Fly
- Human

Question 14

Ozymandias

Answer 14

• Power vs time
• The power of Art
• Man vs nature
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• Description of sculpture
• Role of the sculptor in depiction
• power vs time

Question 15

Away, Melancholy

Answer 15

• Despair and Hope
• Humanity vs nature

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• casting off melancholy
• natural world, zoom in
• human actions
• Spiritual
• Questioning if god exists
• Depletion
• image of abuse,w still has reason to look up to love