The Pantoum

Question 1

Hollander

Answer 1

The stanzas, though may seem unrelated, are connected both ‘trivially…by some bit of assocation’ [e.g. a pun/play on words] and ‘profoundly, after the resonance of the odd relation has set in’

Question 2

Carter

Answer 2

Challenge of the ‘abrupt changes in feeling’

Question 3

Dolven

Answer 3

‘problems of doubling and the relation of doubles, of synchronicity and independence’
‘Pantoum’s ironical form’
Relies on ‘a succession of words apprehended together…a clean separation between its sequential parts that makes for a richly dissonant aftermath’

Question 4

Foulcher

Answer 4

‘the composer of the pantun is not intent on focusing on himself or herself as an individual’