Quotes Bank 1

Question 1

Letters from Yorkshire: ‘Pouring (air) and (light) into an (envelope)’
Themes: strong bonds, admiration, distance, desire, nature

4 analysis points

Answer 1

1.’envelope’ old fashioned juxtaposes her life
2.Air light building blocks life
3.Celestial imagery- his life closer god more meaning
religious connotations
4.air, light rely exchanges for life source- extreme, seclusion speaker computer- not real.

Question 2

Letters from Yorkshire: feeding words onto a blank screen.”

5 analysis points

Answer 2

1.actions artificial void meaning
2. juxtapose tangible food potatoes Figurative he feeds people
3.contrasts letter writing, intimate communication
4.contrast urban and rural life alienated career
5.’feeding’ demanding never ending= living thing personify

Question 3

When two parted: ‘Knell in mine ear’
5 points
-lexical field of death

Answer 3

1-acts silent, tortured witness save face,
2-hearing name “knell.”=ringing bell, funerals
3-extremely heavy object=emotional heaviness
4-“knell” Metaphorically death relationship. lexical field of death.
5-ear= senses overwhelmed all can hear seriously affected him= auditory imagery

Question 4

When two parted: ‘spirit deceive’ ?
3 points

Answer 4

1-Snakes are symbols of evil,deception- sibilance throughout - Garden of Eden-lovers sinful and deceptive.
2-hushed sound—secrecy and silence. Illicit relationship
3-spirt- emotional connection destroyed

Question 5

before you were mine:
‘Stamping stars from the wrong pavement’
5 POINTS

Answer 5

1-Alluded famous image Marilyn Monroe, “pavement” photograph= reinforce glamour
2-Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard. =worthy of tribute
3-adoration deserved Scottish pavement is “wrong” unworthy of her glamour
4-stamping stars = aggression sibilance= dreams gone=STARS-dreams
5-metaphor wrong pavement/path

Question 6

before you were mine: ‘Possessive yell’
4 POINTS
-iambs and stress

Answer 6

1-title=child takes possession parents.
2-cries baby dominated mother’s life life unrecognizable -Carefree years (endless work)
3-different eras reference to noise—fun, loudness dancing days vs. yell
4-meter rising—unstressed to stressed pattern; Iambs predictability monotony

Question 7

climbing my grandfather:
‘Warm ice’
4 points

Answer 7

1-Oxymoron simile, unusual
2-warmth=emotional warmth memory. finger
3-grandfather-hardiness and gentleness
4-simile=imaginative bringing memory life.

Question 8

climbing my grandfather: ‘‘Slow pulse his good heart’
3 points
-maintain+nurture memory
-metaphorical climb

Answer 8

1-two stress-couples=heartbeat = alive
2-metaphorical climb=revisits intimate relationship-emotional warmth
3-slow pulse= dying or already dead,
heart= vital organ= vital to him

Question 9

mother any distance:
‘Endless sky to Fall or fly’
4 points

Answer 9

1-“endless sky,” metaphor future. independence result failure or success.
2-falling or flying=expression childhood,= a bird leaving the nest Fricative=harsh= reinforce bird imagery
3-heighten ending’s suspense, ambigious how poem will close.

Question 10

mother any distance: ‘Anchor. Kite’
5 points

Answer 10

1-metaphor= interconnectedness mother and child.
2-“Anchor” =security, stability
3- “Kite”=child memory, some point allowed to fly.
4-Anchors steady ships=hold back; prevent ships floating away by winds
5-comforting mother= never truly independent while tethered parent.

Question 11

Eden rock: ‘Sky Whitens as if lit by three suns’
5 points
-enjambent

Answer 11

1-Enjambment= Intensifying unsettling atmosphere
2-metaphor Christian allusion= “three suns” Holy Trinity, (Father, Son, Holy Spirit.)
3-mirroring family unit=heavenly imagery
4-white connotes= illness, death, warmth love parents
5-unnatural intensity to the light, not real scene, imagination, memory

Question 12

Eden rock: ‘beckon to me from the other bank.’
4 points

Answer 12

1-“beckon” “bank” assonant, plosive /k/ sounds =sensation two words calling each speaker’s parents
2-moving further away from him unnatural= dead.
3-mythological=stream crossing alludes ancient Greek belief newly deceased souls cross the rivers Styx afterlife
4.approaching death, comforted by memory his parents, enduring bond familial emotional closeness

Question 13

Follower: Shoulder globed like a full sail strung’
5 points
-avoids figurative language

Answer 13

1-imagery father working=simile avoids figurative language straightforward statements
2-father’s stature= familiar image, formidable ship.
3-allegory Greek god Atlas, carries the heavens—represented by a sphere—shoulders, father god.
4-assonant repetition of the long ‘o’ sound in “shoulders globed” mimics circle
5-lexical field of nautical imagery ‘wake’ ‘breaking’= vast sea= expert

Question 14

Follower: ‘Yapping always. but today’
6 points
-onomtopia
-sitional irony

Answer 14

1-Onomatopoeia piercing barks speech bothersome,
2-”yap” sharper metrical stress
3-anthropomorphic generational trauma
4-contrast perception relationship Situational irony.
5-Juxtaposition past, present. Volta revere roles
6-caesura attention “but today,” abruptly brings reader present.

Question 15

walking away: ‘Scorching Ordeals which fire ones irresolute clay’ (consonants lines)
6 points

Answer 15

1-potter sculpts vessel clay, fired kiln material strengthened. Without shape collapsing “irresolute” unsure shape to take=maturity
2-destructive acts “scorching” a vessel,”fire”—healthy
3-metaphor to describe his son, painful ordeals healthy, necessary
4-repeating consonants lines=connection meaning.
5-PROMETHEUS greek god: moulding mankind out of clay.- out of his hand in control of gods higher power

Question 16

walking away: ‘Half-fledged thing set free’
4 points
-cossance and fricative

Answer 16

1- immaturity=difficult navigate environment
2-learning independent, essential child’s process of growing up.
3-stage of life bird some but not all of the adult feathers it needs to fly. metaphor= bird imagery
4-Consonance, frickative= helpless