Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album

Question 1

At last you __________ up the album’ (Lines)

Answer 1

yielded

Question 2

Too much ____________, too rich’ (Lines)

Answer 2

confectionary

Question 3

What kind of semantic field is used in the opening stanza of Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album?

Answer 3

semantic field of food (the woman is presented as a commodity to be consumed)

Question 4

What are some of the quotations that link to the semantic field of food in Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album?

Answer 4

‘too much confectionary’

Question 5

I choke on such nutritious images // ‘My swivel eye hungers’ // ‘I ___________ on such nutritious images’ (Lines)

Answer 5

choke

Question 6

How is ‘art’ described in Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album? ‘___________ and ______________’

Answer 6

faithful and disappointing

Question 7

In Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album, why does the speaker see photography as ‘disappointing’?

Answer 7

It is too ‘faithful’ - it does not leave room for imagination

Question 8

So I am left to _________’ (Lines)

Answer 8

mourn

Question 9

Why does Larkin feel saddened when he considers the girl’s past in Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album?

Answer 9

It is something that he is excluded from - it is ‘a past that no one can now share’.

Question 10

It holds you like a __________’ (Lines)

Answer 10

heaven

Question 11

What technique is used in the following: ‘it holds you like a heaven’ (Lines)

Answer 11

similie

Question 12

In Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album, what it is that the speaker says ‘holds you [the girl] like a heaven’?

Answer 12

the past

Question 13

Which quotation in Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album suggests that the past preserves the woman in an eternal state of wonder and purity.

Answer 13

‘it holds you like a heaven’