I Remember, I Remember

Question 1

What does the speaker stumble upon and remember?

Answer 1

He stumbles upon and remembers his childhood town.

Question 2

How does his childhood town make the speaker feel?

Answer 2

It isn’t important to him and it lacks excitement

Question 3

What did Thomas Hood write a poem about?

Answer 3

The nostalgia of childhood in 1903

Question 4

What was Larkins childhood town and how did it impact him?

Answer 4

Coventry and he was less deceived about childhood realism as he had a negative childhood

Question 5

What’s the structure of the poem?

Answer 5

Seven stanzas divided into quintains

Question 6

1) “why Coventry” I __. “I was born here.”
- reduces? feeling? questioning?

Answer 6

1) exclaimed
- importance of place, excitement and pleasure, place

Question 7

2) “I leant far out, and __ for a sign”
- lacks what? what hasn’t had an impact on him?

Answer 7

2) squinned
- significance, the place

Question 8

3) “I never ran to when I got __”
- device? - what does it show? what didn’t happen?

Answer 8

3) depressed
- enjambment - it shows the cliche view of nostalgia of a happy family, he didn’t get depressed

Question 9

4) “the __ all biceps and the girls all __”
- stereotype? what type of movies is being influenced?

Answer 9

4) boys, chest
- cliche stereotype, American movies - the influence of American culture

Question 10

5) “__ like something; happens everywhere”
- reminds us of what? how does this relate to identity? what word could be a volta?

Answer 10

5) nothing
- reminds us that his childhood is insignificant, his childhood town didn’t create his identity or the person he is now, childhood, nothing