Climbing My Grandfather

Question 1

Themes:

Answer 1

• Love
• Family Bonds
• Childhood

Question 2

Compare With:

Answer 2

• Follower
• Walking Away
• Before You Were Mine
• Mother, Any Distance

Question 3

Love:

Answer 3

• “Knowing the slow pulse of his good heart”

- “His finger is smooth and thick like warm ice”

Question 4

Family Bonds:

Answer 4

• “Reaching for the summit, where gasping for breath I can only lie watching clouds and birds circle”

Question 5

Childhood:

Answer 5

• “To stare in his brown eyes, watch a pupil slowly open and close”

Question 6

Compare With: Follower

Answer 6

• The parental figure is the role model

- Memorable poem

Question 7

Compare With: Walking Away

Answer 7

• Relationship is broken and family relationships

- Death of Grandfather/ Death of relationship

Question 8

Compare With: Mother, Any Distance

Answer 8

• No death, but death of family relationships in each of the poems

Question 9

Structure:

Answer 9

• The poem follows a climber’s progress up a mountain to the summit. then up over the forehead, the wrinkles well- spaced and easy

Question 10

Form:

Answer 10

• The poem is written in the present tens

- Enjambment imitates the motion of climbing

Question 11

Tone:

Answer 11

• Memories and the son is determined to remember him