Hughes - Full moon and little Frieda

Question 1

About

Answer 1

The Blakean innocence of a child

Question 2

S1

Answer 2

Free verse

-Poem is written as if it is a constant chain of thought / Shamanic

-Shamanism and the White Goddess

Question 3

S2

Answer 3

Abundance of caesuras

-augmentation of growing tension

Question 4

S3

Answer 4

Enjambment near the end

-Universe is limitless

Question 5

Critic

Answer 5

Sagar “We have a balance instead of an intolerable pressure”

-Through the anti-climax that sets the tone of the poem on a knife’s edge

Question 6

P1

Answer 6

The emphatic opening “a cool small evening” sets the poem in present

-Symbolic “small” and later hyperbole “shrunk” suggests it as inconsequential and unimportant

Question 7

P2

Answer 7

“And you”

-Direct address – personal element to the poem

Question 8

P3

Answer 8

-The oxymoron “still and brimming” – suggests an anti-climax as if everything is on the cusp of bubbling over

-“brimming” the magnitude of Shamanic energies in the environment

Question 9

P4

Answer 9

“wreaths of breath” places the poem as celebratory yet ambiguous as to why

-“wreaths” Christmas/ joy/ happiness/ Blakean

Question 10

P5

Answer 10

Repetition “moon” dramatises the pivotal momentous moment of the poem

-Direct address places the poem in the present to which the reader transcends the realms of meta and joins in this enigmatic moment

-White Goddess

Question 11

P6

Answer 11

The simile “like an artist” suggests the child to be its best creation – amazed at the beauty of its creation

-Personification “artist” links to Genesis stories and the perfect nature of the child demonstrates how they are uncorrupted by sin