Quote bank 3

Question 1

“souls tap out messages” “icy miles”
4 points

Answer 1

1-subconscious, communication letter-writing forged a deeper connection between them.
2-natural world is so meaningful soul-level appreciation
3-metaphor writing letters
4-lifestyle differences are set aside for a simple description of intimacy.

Question 2

‘Pale grew thy cheek and cold’
3

Answer 2

1-repetition of cold/colder death juxtapose absent emotional warmth metaphorical
2-sense of touch= sickness death, lingering feeling of her, loss passion
3-‘grew’ connotations to ivy and weeds and unwanted to change= can kill tree

Question 3

‘thousand eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows’
2

Answer 3

1-ceiling lights or glitter ball possibilities, lust and desire, All eyes on her
2-Assonance of “fizzy” and “movie” giddy sound that youthful longing and romantic fantasy.

Question 4

.’similing mouth to drink’
2

Answer 4

1-observations=mountaineer assess a mountain emotionally revealing details.
2-“smiling.” familial warmth Metaphorically drinking
drinking his knowledge happy to be with him= trying to find himself

Question 5

“the line still feeding out, / unreeling years between us.”
3

Answer 5

1-measuring tape is a Metaphor for the enduring connection umbilical cord.
2-Assonance “feeding” and “unreeling” stretched-out sound, increasing years
3-lexical field= measurements

Question 6

‘I had not thought that it would be like this’
3
(space between the lines)

Answer 6

1-“it” familial love, mystery of death, allusion underworld,
2-create a space from rest stanza=visual divide page mimics the way that the stream divides the speaker
3-monosyllabic- child like, ambiguous, loss cognitive ability=heaven or rebirth

Question 7

‘Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit’
3

Answer 7

1-simile=boy used to have an “orbit,” a path he followed regularly in his daily life.
2-”wrenched”=violence associated with change,transition is painful boy+his father.=painful twisting or pulling
3-parents provide the path for children follow early in life,orbit wrenched away from parent.

Question 8

‘Leaves lay on the starving sod’
4
-paradoxical

Answer 8

1-alliteration sibilance s/ sounds “starving sod” barren, devoid of life= Paradoxical about natural imagery in poem.
2-nature indifference mirrors growing indifference two people.
3-sibilance S sound=snake sound ‘starving sod’ he is blaming her environment
4-leaves lay = alliteration= motionless gone bad

Question 9

“swum the distance between us”
3

Answer 9

1-Volta turn the swans decide to hold hands- swans help this
2-couples holding hands reminiscent swans movement- swans motif= love+ reconciliation + metaphor
3-clear link natural world effect on people: reconciled

Question 10

‘If thou kiss not me?’
2

Answer 10

1-rhetorical question- patronising as he states it as a simple truth, misogyny- because he is a man believes he is entitled to her-
2-Single syllables - monosyllabic-> increase impact of the question. Simple language

Question 11

‘Soiled gloves’
(enjambent)

3

Answer 11

1-sinful gloves symbol imagery/damage goods
2-enjambment stream of consciousness transfixed on Porphyria.
3-twisted interpretation of morality and relationship not socially acceptable