Coming, Going and Poetry of Departures

Question 1

‘Light, chill and yellow, __________ the serene foreheads of houses’ (Coming)

Answer 1

bathes

Question 2

In Coming, what phrase is repeated in the middle chorus part of the poem?

Answer 2

‘It will be spring soon’

Question 3

‘Feel like a ____________’ (Coming)

Answer 3

child

Question 4

‘There is an __________ coming in’ (Going)

Answer 4

evening

Question 5

‘That lights no ____________.’ (Going)

Answer 5

lamps

Question 6

‘___________ it seems at a distance’ (Going)

Answer 6

Silken

Question 7

When it is drawn up over the knees and breast//It brings no ___________.’ (Going)

Answer 7

comfort

Question 8

Where has the __________ gone, that locked//Earth to the sky? (Going)

Answer 8

tree

Question 9

What is the name for a three-line stanza, like those used in Going?

Answer 9

tercets

Question 10

In what year did Britain test nuclear weapons?

Answer 10

1952

Question 11

Sometimes you hear, _________ - ____________,//As epitaph’ (Poetry of Departures)

Answer 11

fifth-hand

Question 12

‘audacious, purifying, _____________ move’ (Poetry of Departures)

Answer 12

elemental

Question 13

‘specially-chosen __________’ (Poetry of Departures)

Answer 13

junk

Question 14

‘the ________ books, the __________ bed’ (Poetry of Departures)

Answer 14

good

Question 15

‘Reprehensibly ____________’ (Poetry of Departures)

Answer 15

perfect

Question 16

‘___________ it seems at a distance’ (Going)

Answer 16

Silken