the furthest distance ive travelled

Question 1

structure

Answer 1

manipulation of rhyming couplet and half rhyme suggests a freedom and break of conformity

Question 2

stanza 1 ‘Like many folk…’

Answer 2

the colloquial friendly tone of the first stanza creates a bond between the speaker and reader as she doesn’t consider her travels unique or extraordinary

Question 3

stanza 2 “.This is how to live.”

Answer 3

caseura places greater emphasis on the confident monosyllabic tone creating a sense of certainty and that the has found her self - naivety of adventure

Question 4

stanza 2 “cells of scattered airport”

Answer 4

duplicitous - imprisonment and the seclusion of a prison cell - inhospitable

biological cells - humanity and companionship

Question 5

stanza 6 “routine evictions”

Answer 5

the tone lacks purpose and is quite perplexed
metaphor for unsuccessful relationships
she is the one routinely evicted people = distances and removes companionship from her life
connotations of an angry landlord

Question 6

stanza 8 “that the furthest distance I’ve travelled have been those between people. And what survives of holidaying briefly in their lives.”

Answer 6

caesura before ‘And’ emphasis the progression of the poem
melancholic tone
‘holidaying’ the pleasure of visiting and not staying permanently, too short, privilege.
she is shaped by them - ‘survives’ she is an amalgamation of the people she has met