Poetry anthology quotes and context for 2 poems of each theme (used in feb mocks)

Question 1

State three quotes for Sunday dip for childhood?

Answer 1

1. “the morning road is thronged with merry boys”
2. “the boldest ventures first and dashes in,”
3. “And play about the water for half the day”

Question 2

State three quotes for ‘I remember, I remember’ for childhood?

Answer 2

1. “I remember, I remember / The house where I was born”
2. “The sun came peeping in at morn”
3. “My spirit flew in feathers then”

Question 3

Context for ‘I remember, I remember’ by Thomas Hood?

Answer 3

• Hood’s life was plagued with illness (could suggest why he longs for the happier days of the past)
• His poem reflects romantic ideals (nature and the innocence of childhood) as he wrote at a time between the Romantic and Victorian era.

Question 4

Context for Sunday dip

Answer 4

• John Clare was a romantic poet, so his poetry values the beauty and power nature beholds
• Clare explores simple pleasures of nature

Question 5

State 3 quotes for Jamaican British for Identity

Answer 5

1. “But the English boys at school made me choose: Jamaican, British?”
2. “Cousins in Kingston call me Jah-English”
3. “When knowing how to war is Jamaican British”

Question 6

State 3 quotes for identity for We refugees

Answer 6

1. “I come from a beautiful place / Where they hate the shade of my skin”
2. “All my family were born there / And I would like to go there”
3. ” I am told I have no country now”

Question 7

State three quotes for Captain cook (To my Brother) for nostalgia

Answer 7

1. “Do you recall the fancies of many years ago,”
2. “Now we talk no more”
3. “But more pleasant, than what the day now brings”

Question 8

Quotes for I remember, I remember for Nostalgia

Answer 8

1. “I remember, I remember / The house where I was born”
2. “But now I often wish the night / had borne my breath away!”
3. “My spirit flew in feathers then”

Question 9

State context for captain cook to my brother

Answer 9

• Captain cook was a famous explorer
• Landon and her brother were very close when they were young. She paid for him to go to university. He was cruel to Landon, later in life

Question 10

Quotes for nature for To my Sister?

Answer 10

1. “The redbreast sings from the tall larch”
2. “There is a blessing in the air”
3. “Make haste, your morning task resign”

Question 11

Quotes from “I remember, I remember’ on nature?

Answer 11

1. “Where the sun came peeping in at morn”
2. Those flowers made of light!”
3. “The tree is living yet!”

Question 12

State the context for Jamaican British

Answer 12

• Antrobus had a British Mother and a Jamaican father
• Dual heritage

Question 13

State 3 quotes for Dislocation for We refugees

Answer 13

1. “Where they shoot me for my song”
2. “I am told I am a lie”
3. “And I would like to go there / But I really want to live”

Question 14

State the context for We Refugees?

Answer 14

• Zephaniah is a strong advocate of human rights and equality around the world
• Title is “we” so highlights how everyone is affected by this issue

Question 15

State 3 Quotes for Dislocation for Jamaican British?

Answer 15

1. “I hate dem, all dem Jamaicans”
2. “How do I serve Jamaican British?”
3. “When knowing how to war is Jamaican British”