Bluebell

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Maturity 
Childhood 
Childhood vs adulthood 
Beauty of nature 
Memories

Question 2

What does the title connote

Answer 2

Blue - sadness, weariness

Bluebell- hangs and droops

Question 3

Is there a rhyme scheme

Answer 3

Yes, alternate

Question 4

What is Brontë mourning

Answer 4

Her childhood she wants to go back to a stress free life, the bluebell reminds her of her life before. The scene shouldn’t cause pain but she misses her childhood

Question 5

Message of the poem

Answer 5

It is better to learn from the past other than be caught up in it, mourning the bluebell is a turning point

Question 6

Quote that shows the bluebells make her happy

Answer 6

“That fills my softened heart with bliss”

Question 7

Quote that shows juxtaposition of the flower

Answer 7

“ in every little flower … of power”

Question 8

Quote to show pathetic fallacy

Answer 8

“ a bright and sunny day”

Question 9

A quote to show the colours of the flowers

Answer 9

“ their varied hues”

Question 10

A quote to show an alliteration

Answer 10

“ a single sweet bluebell “

Question 11

A quote to show rhetorical question

Answer 11

“ that dimness in my eye?”

Question 12

A quote to show her childhood went passed quickly

Answer 12

“ my happy childhood hours “

Question 13

A quote to show innocent childhood

Answer 13

“ bluebells seemed like fairy gifts”

Question 14

A quote to show how no one cares for her now

Answer 14

“ I had not then mid heartless crowds “

Question 15

A quote to show her getting over it

Answer 15

“ and thus it made me mourn “

Question 16

Context on Anne Bronte

Answer 16

Youngest of the sisters
Less well known 
Family died and wrote this poem before she died 
Published under male names 
Visits on holidays here