Aunt Julia

Question 1

Listening to crickets being friendly

Answer 1

Listening to crickets helps fall asleep

Connection to nature as calming

Question 2

Paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel

Answer 2

Constant sound that never ends

She is alwyss movinv
Emphasis her hard working and active nature

Question 3

Of a box bed

Answer 3

Box bed refers to bed in a cupboard
Idea of enclosure and safety

Question 4

Round house ends

Answer 4

Bring if wind
Strong with coming round the corner
Reminder of her characteristics

Question 5

Hers was the only house where I’ve lain at night

Answer 5

Reminder of childhood memories of visits to aunts house
Her house was unique and was a experience

Question 6

and water flouncing into them

Answer 6

Connects aunt and water
Personifies water to having a sassy attitude

Question 7

Spoke Gaelic

Answer 7

Part tense
She no longer does

Question 8

Very loud and very fast

Answer 8

Scottish Celtic language in the highlands

Re potion of very emphasises the speed and volume of speech

Key memory of her

Question 9

Absolute darkness

Answer 9

No electricity
In the middle of no where

Question 10

She was winds pouring wryly

Answer 10

Alliteration is how fast the wind blows

Question 11

I can see her strong food
Stained with pest

Answer 11

Shows masculine strength and capability of doinb mens work

Fear stained of peat shoes she’s not scared of doing dirty work

Question 12

By the time I had learned a little she lay

Answer 12

Suggest poet has finally started to understand her by speaking the same language
Changed tone to regret and frustration as he is too late to start communications with her

Question 13

Peat scrapes and lazy beds

Answer 13

Landscape feature

Question 14

She was buckets

Answer 14

Suggest outdoor
showers

Only piped water to fill up uckets

Question 15

Aunt Julie

Answer 15

Famiky close relative

Aunt insted if auntie suggest distance between them

Question 16

And a keeper of three penny bits in a teapot

Answer 16

Saves up coppers never chucks anything out

Make use of a old rusty teapot as a piggy bank

Question 17

When she wore any

Answer 17

More often goes barefoot

Question 18

So many questions unawnsers

Answer 18

Shows regret that she died without him being bake to talk listen or satistfy her

Question 19

Silenced in the absolute black

Answer 19

Emphasises her enclosure forever in a grave

The silence suggests something was actively done to her that was not her chouce

Question 20

Aunt Julie spoke garlic very loud and very fast

Answer 20

Repitition of phrase reminds us of her uncharged character and always kept her strong native laungage

Question 21

She wore men’s boots

Answer 21

Masculine characteristics
Practical footwear rather then fancy

Suggest how hard she works inside and outside of the hous s

Question 22

Getting angry getting angry

Answer 22

Repitition to emphasis the e frustration as poets in ability to communicate with her
Frustration as if aunt is Gina forever so is her culture and way of life so everything about her is gone

Question 23

But I still hear her welcoming me with a seagulls voice across hundreds of yards

Answer 23

Reinforces his reacurring memories of her
Seagulls voice is a metaphor
So loud u could hear from far distance

She was so connected to nature he poets can still hear her in the sounds of nature

Question 24

While her right hand drew yarn marvoudly out of thin air

Answer 24

Practiced skill
Makes her work seem miracoular as if it’s magic or illusion

Question 25

I could not answer her I could not undertand her

Answer 25

Repitition if not
Highlights his inability to understand and communicate with her

Question 26

She was brown eggs and black shirts

Answer 26

Brown eggs gives more rustic view of her farming life

Wears old fashioned clothes
Simple natrual clothes shoes she is careful with money