Skins

Question 1

Skin

Answer 1

Extended metaphor employed throughout poem to symbolise identity

Question 2

Obidient daily dress

Answer 2

Metaphor suggestive of how society views their present identity as mundane through the bleak presentation of the every-day worn clothing- suggestive that society views their current identity as lacking value
Also suggestive of how skin obeys to the external force of time since it causes aging , which we are powerless over.

Question 3

You cannot always keep that unfakable young surface

Answer 3

Direct mode of adress distinguishes the identity of a person and their skin, drawing attention to the prefix of unfakable and how youth is unable to be mimicked- highlighting how time is irreversible and corrosive

Question 4

Coarse,loose

Answer 4

Half rhyme making a comment on how conforming to societal expectations of avoiding aging leads to a limitation within ones sense of self

Question 5

Carrying a soiled name

Answer 5

Metaphor alluring to the shift in identity time leads society towards as individuals futiley attempt to avoid the inevitable.also suggestive of how societal beauty standards are damaging towards sense of self.

Question 6

Parch then:be roughened,sag;

Answer 6

Asyndetic list of imperatives highlighting the inevitability of aging, readers are encouraged to swerve away from the grudging rejection of the rapid passing of time

Question 7

And pardon me

Answer 7

Speaker employs apologetic tone to highlight a sense of regret through wasting youth since they were distracted and fixated amongst conforming to beauty standards.

Question 8

Me/festivity

Answer 8

Rhyme emphatic of his sincerity within morning the missed opportunity of appreciating youth

Question 9

Till the fashion changes

Answer 9

Commenting on the fleeting nature of beauty standards, suggesting that they lack value and are rooted in superficiality. Mirror the first line as speaker still obeys societal expectations, hinting at a sense of extrapment
Till-fleeting nature