Mod C

Question 1

Vacuum

Answer 1

Picture a Vacuum

Imperative commands reader, forces understanding of the urgent situation

Emptiness of universe - development of rational introspection

Question 2

Trophies

Answer 2

Arms loaded with the trophies of her most successful child

Neg connotations - sourced harmfully from earth

Question 3

Long day

Answer 3

It’s been a long day, I know, but look

Caesura, empathy and patience for reader, shifts pwerspective

Question 4

What to make

Answer 4

‘Is this what it’s come to?’ You think. ‘What am I to make of all of this?’

Rhetorical question, psyma - forced reflection

Question 5

Light

Answer 5

Now follow that light with your tired eyes

2nd person - engages reader, intimacy between poet and reader

Question 6

Fingertips

Answer 6

The drumming of a thousand fingertips

Synaesthesia, typewriting motif, tactility of writing

Question 7

Compose

Answer 7

I would tell my story… I would compose my story

Writing allows connection and escapism

Question 8

Traffic

Answer 8

That’s all I have ever done, traffic in words

Negative - narcotics, exploitation

Question 9

Keys

Answer 9

The keys hammered the page

Multisensory, emotionally and physically harmful

Question 10

Connected

Answer 10

It was too much, these words and what connected with them

Self-engagement with emotions, words reveal emotions