Questions of Travel

Question 1

Quote at start showing she is overwhelmed/critical

Answer 1

There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea

Question 2

Metaphor for water on mountain, hinting at her own sadness

Answer 2

Mile-long, shiny, tearstains

Question 3

First question she asks about the value of travel

Answer 3

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?

Question 4

Questions about travelers being voyeurs paying for a performance

Answer 4

Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theaters?

Question 5

Point at which tone changes in Stanza 2

Answer 5

But surely it would have been a pity

Question 6

Description of sound of shoes using alliteration

Answer 6

Disparate wooden clogs carelessly clacking

Question 7

Metaphor comparing bird cage to church

Answer 7

Bamboo church of Jesuit baroque

Question 8

Quote at end questioning meaning of home

Answer 8

Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?

Question 9

Personification of trees

Answer 9

Noble pantomimists

Question 10

Image of clogs

Answer 10

Disparate wooden clogs/carelessly clacking

Question 11

Examples of precise description

Answer 11

• too many waterfalls here
• tiniest green hummingbird in the world
• disparate wooden clogs/carelessly clacking over/ a grease-stained filling-station floor

Question 12

Examples of unusal imagery

Answer 12

• those mile-long, shiny, tearstains
• mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships/ slime-hung and barnacled
• gesturing/like noble pantomimists
• Bamboo church of Jesuit Baroque

Question 13

Example of sibilance

Answer 13

spill over the sides in soft slow-motion

Question 14

Example of onomatopoeia

Answer 14

• spill over the sides in soft slow motion
• disparate wooden clogs carelessly clacking over a grease-stained filling-station floor

Question 15

Quote questioning whether our reasoning behind travel is a failure of our artistic imaginations

Answer 15

Is it lack of imagination that makes us come to imagined places, not just stay at home?

Question 16

Quote questioning whether we are greedy to want to see our dreams in real life

Answer 16

must we dream our dreams / and have them, too?

Question 17

Quote showing Bishops direct comparison of the bird cage and the clogs

Answer 17

the crudest wooden footwear / and, careful and finicky
the whittled fantasies of wooden cages

Question 18

Examples of imagery

Answer 18

• sad two-noted, wooden tune of disparate wooden clogs carelessly clacking over a grease-stained filling-station floor
• the fat brown bird who sings in a bamboo church of Jesuit baroque: three towers five silver crosses
• whittled fantasies of wooden cages

Question 19

Example of a metaphor

Answer 19

mile-long, shiny, tearstains

Question 20

Example of alliteration

Answer 20

• disparate wooden clogs carelessly clacking
• spill over the sides in soft slow-motion

Question 21

Quote demonstrating theme of nature

Answer 21

• For if those streaks, those mile long, shiny, tearstaings aren’t waterfalls yet
• Not to have seen them gesturing like noble pantomimists robed in pink

Question 22

Quote demonstrating theme of travel/home/exile

Answer 22

Should we have stayed at home, wherever that may be?