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Question 1

What are the themes?

Answer 1

Time, opportunities

Question 2

What device is used in the title?

Answer 2

The extended metaphor paired with caesura shows the impatience of society and its desire for more opportunities.

Question 3

What device is used in ‘we/Pick up bad habits of expectancy’?

Answer 3

The enjambment adds emphasis, gets us to stop and think, is it hopeful and promising? The future is vague and not precise, understanding of said imagined future.

Question 4

What can be inferred through ‘Something is always approaching’?

Answer 4

Shows desire to consume options when they are but they are not taken.

Question 5

What device is used ‘Till then (italics) we say’?

Answer 5

Italics show the voice of society, ‘we’ aligns himself with society, critiquing but also accepting he’s a part of it (conforms)

Question 6

What device is used in ‘Sparkling armada of promises draw near’?

Answer 6

Oxymoron- invasive. Honour/glory, hyperbolic metaphor emphasises the glorification of new, attractive/enticing opportunities. Link your 1950s consumerist culture, increase in afford/avail