The Lammas Hireling

Question 1

Light heart
heavy purse

Answer 1

light - polysemic 2 meanings. Visual light or weight
heavy - proverbial - suggestive of guilt
antithesis - foreshadows early ideas of ambiguity

Question 2

cattle, fat as cream, yields doubled

Answer 2

enjambment and listing.
emphasise the farmer deeply impressed
perhaps suggestive of a supernatural presence

Question 3

“shut up”

Answer 3

demotic lang - raises questjons abt farmer
did he kill his wife?

Question 4

hunted

Answer 4

predatory

Question 5

one night

Answer 5

dramatic stanza break

Question 6

pale form

Answer 6

ambiguous and vague - his wife or the worker

Question 7

disturbed from dreams of my dear late wife

Answer 7

plosive alliterative phrase - harsh aggressive tone

Question 8

i knew him a warlock

Answer 8

first person - unreliable speaker

Question 9

hare

Answer 9

1 lovers
2 supernatural as transgressive - links to theme of mystery and atmosphere

Question 10

the moon came out

Answer 10

gothic convention - transgression from good to evil

Question 11

lighter

Answer 11

polysemic
visually lighter
physically less weight

Question 12

bless me father

Answer 12

caesura - emphatic of his regret and sense of guilt
religious terminology- admitting guilt
reader in place of priest

ambiguity revisited