whatever happened

Question 1

whatever happened

Answer 1

vague lang - ambiguous trauma - chooses not to directly look at if

Question 2

At once

Answer 2

opening a discourse marker - sense of urgency

Question 3

form of poem

Answer 3

sonnet

Question 4

rhyme scheme

Answer 4

terza rima- It symbolises how the speaker tries to control and compartmentalize the trauma he has experienced. However, this rhyme scheme is eventually broken in the final two lines,
representing how the painful memory cannot be repressed.

Question 5

perspective brings significance

Answer 5

somewhat philosophical language - intended to mock society for trying to explain away the trauma they have experienced

Question 6

latitude on map
coastal bedding

Answer 6

geographical lang - desire to reduce the trauma to something technical rather than emotional

Question 7

Curses? the dark? struggling?

Answer 7

incoherent questioning - creates a jarring tone speaker is left uncertain and anxious

Question 8

“kodak distant”

Answer 8

memory - he wants to reduce the trauma to a mere photograph - something he can control and understand

Question 9

where’s the source of these yarns now

Answer 9

enjambemet - continuous trauma it will never truly escape him
yarn - story and a type of thread
story becomes tangled much like a thread and therefore becomes confusing and difficult to make sense of

Question 10

context

Answer 10

patsy strang - affair w larkin where she suffered a miscarriage and ended up drinking herself to death @ 48

motif of photography - larkins own interests