MOD B earth hour quotes

Question 1

inky…

Answer 1

inky blue upon blue

Question 2

inky blue upon blue technique

Answer 2

Utilising layering of visual imagery →representing the assumed clarity and physicality of the tangible world

Question 3

the wing clatter of a typewriter technique

Answer 3

employs zoomorphic imagery

juxtaposes machine and nature

Question 4

poem sentence structure effect

Answer 4

The poem’s second half is one long, complex sentence, contrasting the tangible world’s clarity with the complexity of the ‘counter-world’.

Question 5

heaped …

Answer 5

heaped water crowded sky

Question 6

tonal shift in cesura in line 8 effect

Answer 6

duality of man, with the ability for our bodies and souls to coexist as separate entities.

Question 7

“heaped water, crowded sky” technique

Answer 7

vivid natural imagery

Question 8

the wing …

Answer 8

the wing clatter of a typewriter

Question 9

“we are feral at heart, unhouseled creatures” technique

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anatomical/animalistic imagery

heart as the centre of human existence, thus emphasising the importance of embracing our intrinsic wildness

Question 10

unhouseled creatures technique

Answer 10

positions humans as another organism in an ecosystem

caught in the flow of nature’s time, provoking readers to become aware of the absurdity of our materialistic and possession-oriented lifestyles as our existence is momentary while the earth is forever.

Question 11

‘moonlit in our glass McMansions’ technique

Answer 11

satirical statement

provoked to reconsider their extravagant lifestyle, foolishly believing their damage can be mitigated through lone performative acts such as the Earth Hour movement.

Question 11

moonlit in our…

Answer 11

‘moonlit in our glass McMansions’

Question 12

backward children of a green original anti-Eden from which we’ve never been expelled. technique

Answer 12

biblical allusion

humanity has not fallen but are still children of God → capabilities to care for the earth

Question 13

we are …

Answer 13

“we are feral at heart, unhouseled creatures”

Question 14

backward children ….

Answer 14

backward children of a green original anti-Eden from which we’ve never been expelled.

Question 15

radiance intro

Answer 15

Radiance delves into reconciling and coming to terms with our mortality, emphasising the scope and variation of epiphanies

Question 16

unhouseled creatures technique

Answer 16

Pre-eucharistic allusions

Question 17

schatzkammer and midden technique

Answer 17

treasure chamber + dumping ground in german

binary

Question 18

schatz…

Answer 18

schatzkammer and midden

Question 19

for some technique

Answer 19

extended repetition

vehicle to convey the possible religious answers to life

Question 20

tobias the street….

Answer 20

“Tobias the street smart teen and his screwball dog”

Question 21

“Tobias the street smart teen and his screwball dog” technique

Answer 21

biblical allusion

referencing the book of Tobit

implies otherworldly sense to quotidian symbols such as a vibrant teenager and his dog.

Question 22

the silence they leave, in a bowl, in a book that speaks and may join us technique

Answer 22

Personification

use of juxtaposition against “silence” and “speaks”

ability for existence to transcend through worlds, the living and the dead

Question 23

for some a …

Answer 23

for some a wound, some a gift

Question 24

for some a wound, some a gift technique

Answer 24

juxtaposition

Question 25

technique in recollection of starlings

Answer 25

scattered lineation

Question 26

scattered lineation effect

Answer 26

reflects organic form of starling flight

natural element on a manufactured page, mimicking how the two worlds effortlessly bleed into each other.

Question 27

clears a new…

Answer 27

“clears a new draft of sky, a clean sheet of daylight.”

Question 28

“clears a new draft of sky, a clean sheet of daylight.” technique

Answer 28

extended metaphor of the writing process

implies the mystery of nature, provoking readers to wonder what causes thousands of individual birds to act as one, the same way writing as a result of the creative process has the ability for one text to speak to thousands of people and share a collective idea.

Question 29

the silence…

Answer 29

the silence they leave in a bowl, in a book, that speaks and may join us

Question 30

the mutinous…

Answer 30

“the mutinous struck infant”

Question 31

“the mutinous struck infant” technique

Answer 31

recalling the start of the life cycle after his meditation on death

suddenly the pattern of couplets breaks as a representation of the break in the cycle of life as we are caught “smiling”

tranquillity of life an the inevitability of death

Question 32

accommodating…

Answer 32

accommodating tomb’

Question 33

accommodating tomb technique

Answer 33

juxtaposition

paradox of living in a schatzkammer that has been made into a midden

Question 34

cautionary tone of earth hour effect

Answer 34

reader thinks beyond worldly desires

whether their body will lie in peaceful ground or under a wasteland full of the populations’ possessions