English P1- The Thought-Fox

Question 1

Theme

Answer 1

The fox is the poem and the poem is the fox

The fox represents the creature or writing process

Question 2

Alliteration, punctuation and repetition

Answer 2

Help us understand the flow of the writing process

Question 3

Title

Answer 3

Not just an ordinary fox

Imaginary

Question 4

“I”

Answer 4

Voice is the poet himself

Question 5

“Something else is alive”

Answer 5

In addition to the poet

Question 6

“clock’s loneliness”

Answer 6

Personification to highlight how late it is

Question 7

“And this blank page where my fingers move.”

Answer 7

Starting to write

Question 8

Stanza 2

Answer 8

Suggests that what he sees may be dangerous or scary

Question 9

Colon

Answer 9

Explain

Question 10

“Something more near/ Though deeper within darkness”

Answer 10

Links with the idea of that stars which are also in darkness but this is closer

Question 11

“Though deeper within darkness”

Answer 11

Personal

Close

Question 12

Stanza 1 and 2

Answer 12

Describe the external (and some of the internal) environment

Question 13

“Cold”

Answer 13

Environment

Question 14

“delicately”

Answer 14

Vulnerable by coming out of the dark
Could be damaged or lost
Glimpse of what he could write about

Question 15

“snow”

Answer 15

Represent a blank page

Question 16

“A fox”

Answer 16

Discover what the thing is

Question 17

“Two eyes serve a movement, that now/And again now, and now, and now/Sets new prints into the snow”

Answer 17

Enjambment

Question 18

Repetition of now

Answer 18

Slowly getting the idea out

Stilted

Question 19

“Set neat prints”

Answer 19

Word appearing on the page

Question 20

Warily

Answer 20

Cautious

Question 21

“lame”

Answer 21

Feeble or weak idea

Question 22

“Shadow”

Answer 22

Making the dark image of the fox more clear

Question 23

“Shadow lags by stump and in hollow”

Answer 23

Still partially in the forest

Question 24

“Of body that is bold to come”

Answer 24

Suggest it will be bold when it comes out (fox and idea)

Question 25

“Across clearings”

Answer 25

Closed some type of threshold in his mind

So close now

Question 26

“greeness”

Answer 26

Idea is taking life and growing in the poet’s mind

Question 27

“Brilliantly, concentratedly”

Answer 27

Doesn’t see the full fox yet, just the eyes

Question 28

“Coming about its own business”

Answer 28

Fox is doing what foxes do and poet is doing what poets should do

Question 29

Line 21-24

Answer 29

1 stanza

Question 30

“Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox”

Answer 30

Sensory and imagery

Poet becomes confident in using figures of speech

Question 31

“Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox/It enters the dark hole of the head”

Answer 31

The idea has run across and is in the mind of poet

Fox has crossed the clearing and made it back to its lair

Question 32

Gap

Answer 32

Used to specifically emphasize the last two line

Question 33

“The window is starless still; the clock tick,”

Answer 33

Full circle

Question 34

Semi-colon

Answer 34

What happens next

Question 35

“It enters the dark hole of the head./ The page is printed.”

Answer 35

Climax of the poem