English - Duffy

Question 1

The Way My Mother Speaks

Answer 1

“Too blue swapped for a cool grey”
“Everything was silent. Everything was not silent”
“I am homesick, free, in love”

Question 2

Mrs Tilscher’s Class

Answer 2

“Laugh of a bell” -> “tangible alarm”
“Easter”
“Inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”
“Sky split open into a thunderstorm”

Question 3

Originally

Answer 3

“The miles rushed back”
“Your accent wrong”
“‘My tongue shedding its skin like a snake”
“I hesitate”

Question 4

Mrs Midas

Answer 4

“He was standing under the pear tree snapping a twig”
“Separate beds”
“not the idiocy or greed but lack of thought for me. Pure selfishness.”
“his touch”

Question 5

Valentine

Answer 5

“Like the careful undressing of love”
“It will blind you with tears”
“A wobbling photo of grief”
“It’s platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring”

Question 6

War Photographer

Answer 6

“as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass.”
“which did not tremble then though seem to now”
“a half-formed ghost”
“eyeballs prick with tears”