coming

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

About the coming of spring - celebration of the energy and new hope that arrives with the season.

Question 2

Yellow

Answer 2

Showing the innocence and purity of the new season.

Urban environment brought back to life.

Question 3

Bathes the serene

Answer 3

religious imagery

brining natural environment to life

relaxing
cleansing
pure
happy

tranquillity opposing to the chaos of winter

Question 4

sings

Answer 4

melodical

Question 5

forehead of houses

Answer 5

personification

washing of foreheads
bathing of foreheads (brings life)

christening and baptising

born brand new

new season

represents the cleanse after the ravishing of winter

Question 6

astonishing

Answer 6

sudden light after winter of darkness

romantics - sublime - academic - larkin urbanises the landscape creating relatability for the common man

auditory imagery

Larkin known as anti romantic - movement writer - mundane

Question 7

brickwork

Answer 7

his nature is simple. like brickwork

Question 8

it will be spring soon
it will be spring soon

Answer 8

repetition

like a chant - he cant contain his excitement - childish - innocent

juxtaposing from typical larkin

Question 9

Laurel

Answer 9

Symbol of victory crown - tone of celebration in the wake of spring

Question 10

all 1 stanza

Answer 10

an individual thought, doesnt think thoroughly

Question 11

of adult reconciling

Answer 11

cant keep his pessimistic intruding thought out