Poetry Tones

Question 1

Lady Lazarus

Answer 1

confessional ("I have done it again")
in control ("there is a charge" "I do it exceptionally well")

Question 2

Cut

Answer 2

indifference (“my thumb instead of an onion”)

Question 3

Ariel

Answer 3

peaceful (“stasis”, “substanceless”, “distances”)

Question 4

Morning Song

Answer 4

calm (“moth-breath”, “cloud”)

detached (“I’m no more your mother than…”)

Question 5

Daddy

Answer 5

childlike (“daddy”, “gobbledygoo”, “oo” sound)

Question 6

Edge

Answer 6

detached (“her dead body”, “she is used to this sort of thing”)
bleak (“it is over”)

Question 7

Little Red Cap

Answer 7

empowered (“I made quite sure he spotted me”-> “singing, all alone”)
determination (“I lost both shoes but I got there”)

Question 8

Queen Kong

Answer 8

in control (“my little man”, “he was mine”)

Question 9

Medusa

Answer 9

power (“be terrified”, “I glanced at a buzzing bee/ a dull grey pebble fell”)

Question 10

Salome

Answer 10

power (“I’d done it before and doubtless I’ll do it again”, “his head on a platter”)

Question 11

Mrs Lazarus

Answer 11

despair (“I had grieved.”, “noosed”)

acceptance (“then he was gone.”, “healed”)

Question 12

Anne Hathaway

Answer 12

positive reminiscence (“he held me upon the next best bed”)