ENGLISH WORLDS AND LIVES

Question 1

bittersweet, holy, lamentation

lines written in early spring

Answer 1

• in that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind
• if such be nature’s holy plan
• have i not reason to lament what man has made of man?

Question 2

dwell, enchant, heaven

shall earth no more inspire thee

Answer 2

• come back and dwell with me
• enchant and soothe thee still
• yet none would ask a heaven more like this earth than thine

Question 3

shadow, prison, identity

in a london drawing room

Answer 3

-for all is shadow
- the world seems one prison house & court where men are punished at the slightest cost
- all closed, in multiple identity

Question 4

smoke, timeless, sodium

a wider view

Answer 4

• my great great grandad searched for spaces in the smoke filled sky to stack his dreams
• we stand now, timeless in the flux of time
• today, my footsteps echo in the sodium gloom of neville’s street dark arches

Question 5

trees, gods, chirped

with birds you’re never lonely

Answer 5

• i wondered what the trees would say about us?
• i felt sorry for any grey tree in London, for the family they don’t have, for the Gods they can’t hold
• she could tell which bird chirped, a skill she learned from her grandfather

Question 6

airconditioning, quickening, seawall

like an heiress

Answer 6

-dwell in the airconditioned cooleness
-on the quickening years and fate of our planet
- the beach is deserted except for a one wave of rubbish against the old seawall