Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Bend In The Road

Question 1

Adjectives describing poem

Answer 1

Peaceful, nostalgic, still,tranquil, dreamy, sleepy

Question 2

The language creates a tranquil atmosphere
Rhythmical, the enjambment creates rhythm and flow
Immediately nostalgic

Answer 2

the place where the child felt sick in the car

Question 3

Simple simile
Zoomorphism
Alliteration

Answer 3

A tall tree like a cat’s tail waited too

Question 4

Sense of clam and stillness

Stanza ends ona positive where nature is represented in a benign way

Answer 4

The opened the windows and breathed easily, while nothing moved

Question 5

From one stanza to the next we don’t know what will happen
Conversational tone
This place now has significance in their lives

Answer 5

It has become the place where you were sick one day on the way to the lake

Question 6

They’ve grown with time
The place has grown with time
Fairytale quality

Answer 6

You are taller now than us. The tree is taller

Question 7

One cloud in a perfect SKY

The people who have now passed are present through the cloud, metaphor

Answer 7

Piled high, wrapped lightly, like one cumulus cloud in a perfect sky

Question 8

The memories are linked to clouds because after all these years, they’re so fly packed away like the air
The people no longer have physical presence

Answer 8

Airy space they took up

Question 9

Goes from a quiet road to a road associated with death

The silence becomes almost uncomfortable rather than peaceful, knowing they’re dead

Answer 9

The road is as silent as ever

Question 10

Death and fragility of life as a theme have come to fore
The memories and thoughts are contained within the natural
The people have found peace in the afterlife
Comforting ending as there memories live on

Answer 10

This is the place of their presence : in the tree, in the air