Here - Philip Larking (1)

Question 1

the captain of the 1964 top of the form team

Answer 1

time, change, disappointment and disillusion.

Question 2

litany

Answer 2

childhood, societal standards, and women’s lives.

Question 3

stafford afternoons

Answer 3

loss of innocence, an encounter with a foreign adult world, childhood trauma, and the effect of traumatic experiences

Question 4

brothers

Answer 4

growing apart from people that we were once close to.
how time owns us / time passing.
memories are the only things we can hold on to.
death, once a certain age is reached, there is nothing to do but wait for one’s own passing.

Question 5

before you were mine

Answer 5

how motherhood changes a woman, how she can lose her sense of identity and how children rarely get to know the free, independent woman their mother was before they had children.

Question 6

confession

Answer 6

religion, religious control, catholic confession

Question 7

like earnin a living

Answer 7

stupidity

Question 8

away and see

Answer 8

physical and self discovery

Question 9

first love

Answer 9

what discovering love is like

Question 10

cafe royal

Answer 10

This poem describes through third person a man going to a café or bar where Oscar Wilde used to spend time.

Question 11

never go back

Answer 11

the past and the bad memories associated with time and place,

Question 12

valentine

Answer 12

love, convention, individualism, and vanity of materialism.

Question 13

adultery

Answer 13

deceit and the impacts of the husband cheating on the wife.

Question 14

havisham

Answer 14

heartache, pain, mental rage, and passion.

Question 15

fraud

Answer 15

being a fraud, uk,war

Question 16

disgrace