Human Conditions essay

Question 1

Death of a naturalist quotes

Answer 1

1 - “ the bubbles gargled delicately” + “ wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell”
2 - “ the fattening dots burst into nimble - swimming tadpoles” - “ miss walls would tell us how the daddy bullfrog was called a bullfrog”
3 - “Angry frogs” + “ to a coarse croaking that I had not heard”

Question 2

Blackberry picking

Answer 2

1- “ Late August, given heavy rain and sun” + “ for a full week, the blackberries would ripen”
2 - “we hoarded the fresh berries in the byre” + “A rat grey fungus”
3- “I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair” + “ Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not” final line, perfect rhyme

Question 3

Personal helicon

Answer 3

1- “I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells” + “ Of waterweed fungus and dark moss”
2-“Fructified like any aquarium” + “ When you dragged out long roots from sloth mulch/ It’s white face hovered over the bottom”
3- “ To stare, big eyed Narcissus, into some spring/ Is beneath all adult dignity” + “I rhyme/ To see myself to set the darkness echoing.