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Question 1

Poet of poem

Answer 1

Simon Armitage

Question 2

Beginning of poem quotes

Answer 2

“After passionate nights and intimate days”
“Only then would he let me trace”
“Only then would he let me explore”
“Blown hinge of his lower jaw”
“And handle and hold”
“Damaged, porcelin collar-bone”

Question 3

Middle of poem quotes

Answer 3

“And mind and attend”
“Fractured rudder of shoulder-blade”
“And finger and thumb”
“Parachute silk of his punctured lung”
“Bind the struts”
“The rungs of his broken ribs”
“Grazed heart”
“I picture the scan”

Question 4

End of poem quotes

Answer 4

“Foetus of metal”
“Scarring back to its source”
“Sweating, unexploded mine”
“Buried deep in his mind”
“Every, closed. Then, and only then, did i come close”

Question 5

“After passionate nights and intimate days”

Answer 5

First couplet could be start of traditional love poem
It echoes the first stages of a new relationship and suggests the couple are reconnecting