Born Yesterday, Wedding Wind and I Remember, I Remember Flashcards
Larkin Revision
‘Tightly-folded __________’ (Born Yesterday)
bud
Who is Born Yesterday written for?
Sally Amis
‘Not the usual __________/ About being beautiful’ (Born Yesterday)
stuff
‘____________ will all wish you that’ (Born Yesterday)
They
‘About __________ / ___________ ‘ (Born Yesterday)
being beautiful
‘Nothing ____________ /To pull you off your balance’ (Born Yesterday)
uncustomary
What are the five qualities that the speaker of Born Yesterday wants the young girl to be?
skilled, vigilant, flexible, unemphasised, enthralled
‘a stable door was _________, again and again’ (Wedding Wind)
banging
‘leaving me stupid in ___________’ (Wedding Wind)
candlelight
‘Seeing my face in the _________ candlestick yet seeing nothing’ (Wedding Wind)
twisted
‘this ____________ morning shares my bed?’ (Wedding Wind)
perpetual
‘Can even ____________ dry up these new delighted lakes’ (Wedding Wind)
death
‘Our kneeling as ___________ by all-generous waters’ (Wedding Wind)
cattle
In I Remember, I Remember, Larkin uses the same title as a poem by ________?
Thomas Hood
I Remember, I Remember describes a train arriving in the city of ________?
Coventry
‘Why, Coventry!’ I ____________’ (I Remember, I Remember)
exclaimed
‘I leant far out, and _____________ for a sign’ (I Remember, I Remember)
squinnied
That this was still the town that had been ‘___________’ (I Remember, I Remember)
mine
‘where my childhood was ____________’ (I Remember, I Remember)
unspent
the boys all biceps and the girls all __________’ (I Remember, I Remember)
chest
____________ like something happens anywhere’ (I Remember, I Remember)
nothing
