Song

Question 1

What quote suggests the speaker doesn’t want her death to be mourned in ‘Song’ ?

Answer 1

‘When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plat thou no roses at my head’

Question 2

What quotes in ‘Song’ show what the speaker wants people to do instead of mourn her death?

Answer 2

‘Be the green grass above me, With showers and dewdrops wet.’

Question 3

What are the quotes at the end of both verses in ‘Song’?

Answer 3

‘And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.’
‘Happy I may remember, And happy may forget.’

Question 4

What are the sense quotes in ‘Song’?

Answer 4

‘I shall not see the shadows’
‘I shall not feel the rain’
‘I shall not hear the nightingale’

Question 5

What are the quotes that suggest pain, grief and darkness in ‘song’?

Answer 5

‘Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set.’