poems

Question 1

despair

Answer 1

funeral
stood up
slant

Question 2

supressed female emotions

Answer 2

loaded gun

volcano

Question 3

anger control

Answer 3

loaded gun

cautious

Question 4

out of control

Answer 4

Stop for death
Funeral
Fly buzz
Stood up

Question 5

ambiguos/confusing

Answer 5

stop for death
fly buzz
funeral
stood up

Question 6

aggressive aspect

Answer 6

Awful tempest

narrow fellow

Question 7

awe and fascination

Answer 7

Awful tempest

narrow fellow

Question 8

limitations of human knowledge

Answer 8

murmer

fly buzz

Question 9

crisis of faith

Answer 9

fly buzz
the world is not conclusion
slant

Question 10

loaded gun

Answer 10

1. suppressed female emotions
   “hunt[s] the doe”
   “He” = rage
   The imagery of a passive and static “Loaded Gun” could suggest her bottled emotions and communicate the womens’ dormant rage in their time
   anaphora of “And now We” could create a childish voice
   alliteration of ‘m’ and ‘l’ in “emphatic thumb” and “longer live” contrasts with violent imagery
2. anger can control us / irrational
   “carried Me away”
   verb “carried” is a very passive tone=control anger exerts over her shows her lack of agency
   increasingly more devoted to him; she “guards My Master’s Head” = sense of powerlessness
   “longer live/He longer must - than I -”
3. empower humanity and provide us with strength and purpose
   imagery “Loaded Gun, “owner” = rage
   differentiating between the persona and her rage, the poem explores the influence rage has on the body.
   “stood - a Loaded gun- In Corners”
   “sovreign”
   “To foe of His - I’m deadly foe -
   “stood” “carried” to present tense “We roam” “We hunt”
   from unnoticed and passive to assertive and domineering.
   She “guards” this “Master”; protects and cares for this rage that empowers and emancipates her/ pleasure + confidence

Question 11

stop for death

Answer 11

1. natural/inevitable
2. tranqiul but with no control
3. ambiguous/confusing