Aunt Julia Other Poems (quotes)

Question 1

AJ w/ BS

Answer 1

THEME OF UNCERTAINTY (BS)

• “To stub an oar where none should be”
• “He shoggled me”
• “Swish up the dirt and, when it settles a spring is all the clearer”
• “So who’s the monster?”

Question 2

AJ w/ Assisi

Answer 2

THEME OF NATURE (Assisi)
-“In honour of St Francis, brother of the poor, talker with birds”
-“clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the Word”
DIFFERENCE IN VULNERABILITY (Assisi)
-“The dwarf with his hands on backwards sat, slumped like a half filled sack on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run”
-“The ruined temple outside, whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head”

Question 3

AJ w/ HR12F

Answer 3

THEME OF NATURE (HR12F)
-“A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect”
UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENT
-“Foreign places”

Question 4

AJ w/ VH

Answer 4

DIFFERENCE IN DEGREE OF STRENGTH (VH)
-“She lies in a white cave of forgetfulness.”
-“A withered hand trembles on it stalk”
-“Eyes move behind eyelids to heavy to move”
BARRIERS (VH)
-“And between her and me distance shrinks till there is none left, but the distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross.”

Question 5

AJ w/ BC

Answer 5

THEME OF UNCERTAINTY (BC)
-“‘See you babe’ to his wife, he hoped it, he truly hoped it”
-“Who would be him, gorilla with a nightstick?”
THEME OF DEATH AND LOSS (BC)
-“What clubbings, what gunshots”