POD

Question 1

the deliverer (title)

Answer 1

~ physical delivery of baby
~speakers mother delivers baby
~ deliverance = to be saved from evil

Question 2

‘crippled or dark or girls’

Answer 2

girls are reduced to single undesirable beings, characteristics

Question 3

‘covered in garbage, stuffed in bags, abandoned at their doorstep’

Answer 3

tricolon = inhumane treatment of the girls
denied identity

Question 4

‘one was dug up by a dog’

Answer 4

purposely denied identity

Question 5

‘fetish for plucking hair of hands, or how her mother tried to bury her’

Answer 5

brutal juxtaposition
desire to form human connection contrasted with reality

Question 6

‘some desolate hut outside village boundaries’

Answer 6

corrupt, immoral actions are hidden away even from the villagers

Question 7

‘where mothers go to squeeze out life’

Answer 7

pun ( birth & death )
blunt monosyllabic language

Question 8

‘my mother could not ____ ___ ____,’

Answer 8

‘bear being blind,’
plosive alliteration, blunt forceful tone

Question 9

‘one should hide the fact that ________ ________ are _____’

Answer 9

‘catastrophic handicaps are hell’
society’s view towards *stoic illness

Question 10

‘_____ it like a _______’

Answer 10

‘bear it like a roman’
simile
battle, test of strength

Question 11

( try it in a ______ ______ ______ )
why does Adan Thorpe use parenthesis

Answer 11

pitch black room
to convey the reality through parenthesis

Question 12

‘usual sop’
‘inadequate lock-in son’

Answer 12

metaphor
inability to express emotion

Question 13

‘that the long, slow slide’

Answer 13

enjambment coveys the long slow process of her vision gradually diminishing

Question 14

‘it was up to us to believe she was watching, _________, in the ____’

Answer 14

slightly hopeful ending, perhaps feels her pain has ended
ambiguous ending

somewhere
end

Question 15

Please Hold (title)

Answer 15

imperative
‘please’ creates a facade of agency.

Question 16

‘this is the future, my wife says’

Answer 16

wife is robotic, lacks motion.

Question 17

‘robot is giving me countless options, none if which answer my needs’

Answer 17

technology promises progress yet doesn’t provide any

Question 18

( which is really the robots account )

Answer 18

parenthesis to convey the truth = the facade of the robots politeness

Question 19

‘please say yes OR no’
‘yes, no repeat OR menu’

Answer 19

OR = suggests choice yet the speaker lacks choice
technology takes away choice, restricting & disempowering us
repeated conjunction

Question 20

‘you can now meet your needs by looting. wonderful, says the robot’

Answer 20

violent, dystopian, rebellious
technology as corrupt again

Question 21

‘please hold. please grow old. please grow cold, please do what you’re told’

Answer 21

structure breaks into a tercet at the end.
conveys this is the only way out to escape the hold ai has on humanity.
robot gets the last words, reasserting dominance and the language become abbreviated, reinforcing the lack of choice.

Question 22

Please Hold, themes ??

Answer 22

technology
aggression
lack of agency?

Question 23

From The Journal of a Disappointed Man (title)

Answer 23

man of thought/words, reflection

Question 24

‘new pile into the pier.’
‘paraphernalia’
‘pulleys’ ‘pile’

Answer 24

onomatopoeia: plosive harsh, brutal sounds conveying intensity of the men’s work and the violence of their actions

Question 25

‘massive affair’
‘massive style’
‘great difficulty’

Answer 25

practical nature of their job, men defined by action

Question 26

‘let go’ ‘hold tight’
monosyllables

Answer 26

workmen defined by strength and physicality.
contrast to the speaker, who’s actually perhaps impressed

Question 27

‘obscure movements’
‘i cannot say what’

Answer 27

speaker is fascinated but the work men’s strength and admires them

Question 28

‘everyone one of them ______’

Answer 28

monsters
views the workmen as belonging to another world and is perhaps a little intimidated as he is interested

Question 29

‘one ________ man after another’

Answer 29

massive
emphasising the vastness, power imposing nature of the workmen

Question 30

‘gaze down like a ______ into the water’

Answer 30

simile
mystical creature in another realm

Question 31

‘heavy kind of ________’

Answer 31

majesty
graceful, royal, authority figure with superiority and respect

Question 32

‘that left the pile still in midair, and me of course.’

Answer 32

speaker reiterates the workmen and him are separate
ambiguous and uncertain state

Question 33

The lammas hireling (title)

Answer 33

temporary farmworker (lammas)
person who’s hired (hireling)

Question 34

‘heavy purse’

Answer 34

money obbsessed
initial tone if celebration

Question 35

‘the cattle doted on him’

Answer 35

natural connection/affinity to the animals

Question 36

‘i grew _____ of company that knew when to _____’

Answer 36

fond
shut up
juxtaposition reiterates shifting attitudes of the farmer

Question 37

‘disturbed of dreams of my dear late wife,’

Answer 37

plosive alliteration creates a violent tone

Question 38

Out of the bag
1st stanza: who is the speaker ??

Answer 38

a child, thinks the baby has come from a bag, conveys their naivety and innocence

Question 39

‘thoes nosy, rosy big soft hands’

Answer 39

reiterates his childish viewpoints

Question 40

‘like a ______, unwinding us with his __________’

Answer 40

hypnotist
instruments
=complete power and control and magical qualities

Question 41

‘fur lined leather coat’
‘waistcoat satin’
‘silk lined’

Answer 41

luxurious materials conveying
Kirling comes from another world

Question 42

‘hyperborean’

Answer 42

mythical race of people who lived in the north of Greece in Greek mythology

Question 43

10th stanza
‘swabbed porcelain’ etc

Answer 43

speaker (child) starts to imagine the locked room

Question 44

‘chill of tiles’
‘chrome surgery tools’ etc

Answer 44

cold harsh sterile description

Question 45

‘tie, a foot, a chin, an arm and cock’

Answer 45

listing of body parts presents creation of life in a brutal way
speakers imagination

Question 46

Pt 2 shift to Ancient Greece
speaker is now an adult
who is 1. Poeta doctus?
2. Asclepius?

Answer 46

1. teacher & archeologist
2. ancient greek god of healing

Question 47

in Pt 2, of Out of the bag the speaker explore themes of ??

Answer 47

healing, religion
ancient & modern world