Poetry

Question 1

Name two key themes in “Lines Written…”

Answer 1

Religion
Nature & the environment

Question 2

Name three key themes in “England in 1819”

Answer 2

Religion
Protesting/ fighting
Criticism of society

Question 3

Name three key themes in “On and Afternoon train…”

Answer 3

Racial attitudes
Heritage & background
Religion

Question 4

Name three key themes in “Name Journeys”

Answer 4

Heritage & background
Losing identity
Religion

Question 5

Name 4 key themes in “A Wider View”

Answer 5

Heritage & background
Remembering identity
Generations
Work / labour

Question 6

Name 3 key themes in “Homing”

Answer 6

Protecting identity
Generations
Heritage & background

Question 7

Name 3 key themes in “A Century Later”

Answer 7

Freedom from oppression
Criticism of society
Protest / Fight

Question 8

Name 5 key themes in “The Jewellery Maker”

Answer 8

Gratitude
Generations
Class system
Nature & environment
Work

Question 9

Name 4 key themes in “A Portable paradise”

Answer 9

Protecting identity
Nature
Personal history
Generations

Question 10

Name 3 key themes in “Like an heiress”

Answer 10

Nature & environment
Criticism of society
Human interaction with nature

Question 11

Name the poem:
“mud from a muddy spring”

Answer 11

England in 1819 - Percy Shelley

Question 12

Name the poem:
“you cannot kill a book nor the buzzing in it”

Answer 12

A century later - Imtiaz Dharkar

Question 13

Name the poem:
“The rough musicality of mancunian vowels”

Answer 13

Name journeys - Raman Mundair

Question 14

Name the poem:
“the curve of past and future generations arcs between us”

Answer 14

A wider view - Seni Seneviratne

Question 15

Name the poem:
“For years you kept your accent in a box beneath the bed”

Answer 15

Homing - Liz berry

Question 16

Name the poem:
“Alongside in the darkness was my father’s big banana field”

Answer 16

On an afternoon train - James Berry

Question 17

Finish the line:
“An old, mad…”

Answer 17

“…blind, despised and dying king” - England in 1819

Question 18

Finish the line:
“spiritual s…”

Answer 18

“…sari-sisters” -Name journeys

Question 19

Finish the line:
“But leechlike…”

Answer 19

“…to their fainting country cling” -England in 1819

Question 20

Finish the line:
“Hours of elocution…”

Answer 20

“…how now brown cow” -Homing

Question 21

Finish the line:
“he craved the comfort…”

Answer 21

“…of a wider view” -A Wider View

Question 22

Finish the line:
“Hard to see why you leave such sunny country she said…”

Answer 22

“…Snow falls elsewhere I said” -On an Afternoon Train

Question 23

Finish the line:
“A ventilation shaft with…”

Answer 23

“…gilded tiles, and Giotto’s geometric lines” -A Wider View

Question 24

Finish the line:
“my voice a mystery in the Anglo…”

Answer 24

“… echo chamber - void of history and memory” -Name Journeys

Question 25

Finish the line: "Years of lost words spill out..."

Answer 25

"...*bibble fittle tay wum*" -Homing

Question 26

Finish the line: "the pits, railways..."

Answer 26

"...,factories thunking and clanging" -Homing

Question 27

Finish the line: "The school bell is a call..."

Answer 27

"...to battle, every step to class, a step into the firing-line" -A Century Later

Question 28

Name the poem: "carry it always on my person so no one else would know but me"

Answer 28

A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson

Question 29

Name the poem: "he walks to the workshop - like his father before him, and his father too"

Answer 29

The Jewellery Maker

Question 30

Name the poem: "But the beach is deserted except for a lone wave of rubbish"

Answer 30

Like an heiress - Grace Nichols

Question 31

Finish the line: "He sits straight-backed, lays out pointed tools..."

Answer 31

"...the way a surgeon might - neat as soldiers" -The Jewellery Maker

Question 32

Give the line that juxtaposes this line from the Jewellery maker: "her skin wrinkled by sun"

Answer 32

"clear-eyed, bird-boned, unlined skin" *it contrasts his wife to the women wearing his jewellery*

Question 33

Finish the line: "get yourself to an empty room-..."

Answer 33

...be it hotel, hostel or hovel" -A Portable Paradise

Question 34

Finish the line: "to the sanctuary of my hotel room to dwell in the air-conditioned coolness..."

Answer 34

"...on the quickening years and fate of our planet" -Like and Heiress

Question 35

Finish the line: "Like an heiress, drawn..."

Answer 35

"...to the light of her eye-catching jewels"