Poetry Week One

Question 1

‘so much ………………. on a red wheel barrow’

Answer 1

depends

Question 2

‘…………… with rain water beside the white chickens’

Answer 2

glazed

Question 3

Name two things Williams learnt from ‘the old black man’ about his daily routine.

Answer 3

Any from the following:
1. He had been a fisherman. 2. He used to tell me how he had to work in the cold in freezing weather, standing ankle deep in cracked ice packing down the fish. 3. He said he didn’t feel cold.

Question 4

Define ‘exertion’.

Answer 4

Physical or mental effort.

Question 5

Define ‘enjambment’.

Answer 5

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 6

Define ‘free verse’.

Answer 6

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.