Poetry

Question 1

The captain of the 1964 Top
Of the form team

Answer 1

-only thing he feels that matters
-names it from his past triumphs
-dramatic monologue only about himself/homodiegtic narrative

Question 2

Nostalgia

Answer 2

-Yearning for return to the past or a feeling
-stems from Greek words nostos algos homecoming and pain
-no rhyme scheme shows nothing is the same

Question 3

Before you were mine

Answer 3

-Possessive pronoun mine
-direct address questioning her mother and her life

Question 4

Beachcomber

Answer 4

-Person who makes a living by searching beaches for articles of value
-staggered stanzas doesn’t flow too well, dramatic monologue deterioration of somebody’s mind

Question 5

First love

Answer 5

-Something everyone goes through
-collective experience
-never forget
-short poem reflects most first relationships but it’s filled with emotion and pain

Question 6

Valentine

Answer 6

-Contrast the whole poem
-ironic
-dramatic monologue, blunt short stanzas get point across

Question 7

The biographer

Answer 7

-importance
-prestige
-dramatic monologue only he’s important

Question 8

Litany

Answer 8

-Chant or prayer that repeats

Question 9

Stafford afternoons

Answer 9

-Plural can’t isolate this memory from the rest of the her childhood
-tainted

Question 10

The cliche kid

Answer 10

-humour to mask memories
-AAB rhyme scheme but deviates at the end
-desire a life like a cliche 3 stanzas contradicts feelings desire for normality

Question 11

Small female skull

Answer 11

Fragile Suffering from hangover or because she’s a woman

Question 12

Never go back

Answer 12

-Imperative no doubt to it
-don’t forget it

Question 13

Close

Answer 13

-2 meanings
-were close but now the relationship has ended it’s also closed

Question 14

Mean time

Answer 14

-cruel connotations personification of time
-can’t be escaped