Poetry 5 Poems

Question 1

London is about

Answer 1

Miserable ppl are - how affected by it

Question 2

I wander through each chattered street

Answer 2

repetition = gov owns everything / he’s powerless

Question 3

Cry of every man

Answer 3

imagery = despair everyone feels

Question 4

Mind forged manacles

Answer 4

metaphor - ppl trapped - their thoughts & attitudes

Question 5

London form

Answer 5

Dramatic monologue ( suffering )

Question 6

London structure

Answer 6

four stanzas ( cyclical nature of social injustice )

Question 7

Adlestrop is about

Answer 7

Appreciation of nature

Question 8

Yes I remember Adlestrop

Answer 8

first person Lang = based on his memory

Question 9

The steam hissed someone cleared his throat

Answer 9

sibilance = memory

Question 10

And willow and grass

Answer 10

lists = nature surrounded by him
repetition of and = connection of nature

Question 11

Adlestrop form

Answer 11

Free verse - freedom of nature

Question 12

Adlestrop structure

Answer 12

four stanza - it’s timeless / memory will never change

Question 13

Steward island is about

Answer 13

visits NZ - uncomfortable

Question 14

True : there was a fine bay

Answer 14

colloquial Lang - expresses feelings through expression

Question 15

Too cold too swim

Answer 15

negative response to her surroundings - cold = detachment

Question 16

Bitten by sand-flies

Answer 16

memory - aggressive verbs - unwelcoming

Question 17

Steward island form

Answer 17

block - no pause - internal thoughts

Question 18

Steward island structure

Answer 18

1 stanza = an island

Question 19

Home thoughts is about

Answer 19

missing England - beauty - April

Question 20

Oh to be in England when April is there

Answer 20

ex. sentence - lining to be back home

Question 21

Whoever wakes in England

Answer 21

different perspective = imagined experience

Question 22

Blossomed pear tree

Answer 22

imagery = nature = quiet

Question 23

Home thoughts form

Answer 23

short lyric - no longer live there

Question 24

Home thoughts structure

Answer 24

2 stanzas = divide = what he remembers to expect & what he imagines

Question 25

Westminster is about

Answer 25

beautiful sight - admiration

Question 26

Silent bare

Answer 26

adjectives - a sense of man / nature = everything is still

Question 27

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air

Answer 27

adjectives - air = unpolluted plosive b = natural light shining

Question 28

Ships, towers, domes

Answer 28

list of man made structures - beautiful without presence of man

Question 29

Westminster form

Answer 29

Petrarchan sonnet - first 8 lines = beauty never seen before and last 6 lines = comparison between London and countryside

Question 30

Westminster structure

Answer 30

enjambment at the beginning = awe of the view he’s seeing

Question 31

What poems can be paired up with London?

Answer 31

Westminster

Question 32

What poems can be paired with Adlestrop?

Answer 32

London / absence / Rm

Question 33

What poems can be paired with steward?

Answer 33

home / London / nothing

Question 34

What poems can be paired with home?

Answer 34

Adlestrop / steward / London

Question 35

What poems can be paired with Westminster?

Answer 35

London / Adlestrop / home