Poetry Week Seven

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.

Question 7

It’s just a piece of cloth that makes the guts of men grow ……..’

Answer 7

bold

Question 8

‘You were ……………… to me’

Answer 8

sunrise

Question 9

What was John Agard taught about in British Guyana?

Answer 9

British history and culture

Question 10

What does Grace Nichols use as inspiration for her poetry?

Answer 10

Her Caribbean heritage, folk tales, the tradition oforal storytelling and her move between cultures.

Question 11

Define ‘colonisation’.

Answer 11

The action and process of settling among and establishing control over an indigenous people of an area.

Question 12

What does ‘infer’ mean?

Answer 12

Deduce or work out something from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

Question 13

Define ‘replenish’.

Answer 13

Restore (a stock or supply) to a former level or condition.

Question 14

‘the steady breaking and ………………….’

Answer 14

wombing

Question 15

‘groggily groggily comes back to ………….. of a grey metallic soar’

Answer 15

sands

Question 16

What does the subject in Island Man long for?

Answer 16

The warmth and simple pleasures of the islands that are the home of his birth, while living with friends and family in a cold northern climate.

Question 17

Define ‘auditory’.

Answer 17

Relating to the sense of hearing.

Question 18

Define ‘immigrant’.

Answer 18

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.

Question 19

Define ‘yearn’.

Answer 19

Have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.

Question 20

‘stick is the whip and the ……….. deck is slavery’

Answer 20

dark

Question 21

‘up up up and the music is ……………… me’

Answer 21

saving

Question 22

Give two of the three possible meanings for the word ‘limbo’.

Answer 22

A state of uncertainty
Being on the borders of hell
A traditional West Indies dance

Question 23

Define ‘anguish’.

Answer 23

Severe mental or physical pain or suffering.

Question 24

Define ‘repetition’.

Answer 24

The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Question 25

Define ‘subjugated’.

Answer 25

Bring under domination or control, especially by conquest.

Question 26

‘an ……………. open Mercedes with an ………….. couple in it’

Answer 26

elegant, elegant

Question 27

‘that small ……….. in the high seas of democracy’

Answer 27

gulf

Question 28

What was the poet, concerned about in San Francisco?

Answer 28

The growing gap between the rich and poor. He worried that San Francisco would lose its identity which had previously been defined by working class poets and artists as it was taken over as a playground for the rich.

Question 29

Define ‘inequality’.

Answer 29

The unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people

Question 30

What does ‘juxtaposition’ mean?

Answer 30

Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Question 31

Define ‘wealth’.

Answer 31

An abundance of valuable possessions or money

Question 32

‘I watched the holy man perform his ………… to tame the poison with an ……………………’

Answer 32

rites, incantation

Question 33

If I rise in the east as you die in the west, die for my sake, my love, every night ………………. me.’

Answer 33

renew

Question 34

What does ‘Night of the Scorpion’ demonstrate about modern and traditional beliefs in developing countries?

Answer 34

It shows how modern and traditional beliefs can exist side by side in developing countries.

Question 35

What is a ‘ghazal’?

Answer 35

An ancient Persian form of poetry

Question 36

Define ‘rites’.

Answer 36

A ceremonial act or action.

Question 37

What is a ‘sonnet’?

Answer 37

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Question 38

Define ‘superstition’.

Answer 38

Abeliefornotion,notbasedonreasonorknowledge,

Question 39

‘Going home for the day with fumes of human roast ……………… rebelliously to his hairy nostrils’

Answer 39

clinging

Question 40

‘A tiny glow-worm tenderness …………………… in icy caverns of a cruel heart’

Answer 40

encapsulated

Question 41

How is the poem relevant to all human conflict?

Answer 41

It addresses ideas about the nature of evil in humans.

Question 42

Define ‘duality’.

Answer 42

Refers to having two parts, often with opposite meanings, like thedualityof good and evil

Question 43

What does ‘encapsulated’ mean?

Answer 43

To express the essential features of (something) briefly.

Question 44

What does ‘perpetuity’ mean?

Answer 44

The state or quality of lasting forever.