Where the picnic was

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

-autobiographical
-1912
-novelist and poet
-South West England
-wife died in 1912
-Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

-Elegy
-3 stanzas of unequal length
-irregular rhyme scheme
-enjambment

Question 3

‘Where we made the fire,
In the summer time,’
‘I slowly climb
Through winter mire’

Answer 3

-juxtaposition
-1st person plural to 1st person single
-adverb - sense of dreariness
-summer and winter - past and present

Question 4

‘And scan and trace
The forsaken place
Quite readily.’

Answer 4

-internal rhyme/rhyming couplet
-speeds it up and is really trying to search for signs of the past
-forsaken - he feels he has abandoned the place
-adverb - happy to be there (closure) even though it’s bleak

Question 5

‘Now a cold wind blows,
And the grass is gray’

Answer 5

-Pathetic fallacy
-colour symbolism - grass is lifeless

Question 6

‘Yes, I am here
Just as last year,
And the sea breathes brine
From its strange straight line’

Answer 6

-Interjection
-personification
-language connotes continuity
-sibilance

Question 7

‘But two have wandered far…
Into urban roar
Where no picnics are
And one - has shut her eyes
For evermore’

Answer 7

-Metaphor/onomatopoeia - to him, the city is a place of noise and industry
-euphemism - pointing out his wife has died for the first time (doesn’t even want to say her name because it’s too painful)
-enjambment - emphasises finality