Winter Swans

Question 1

Themes:

Answer 1

• Distance
• Nature
• Anger, Bitterness
• Reconciliation

Question 2

Compare With:

Answer 2

• Neutral Tones
• Letters From Yorkshire
• Singh Song
• Sonnet 29

Question 3

Distance:

Answer 3

• “Two days of rain and then a break”
• ” As we skirted the lake, silent and apart”

Question 4

Nature:

Answer 4

• “Until the swans came and stopped us”
• “The waterlogged earth”

Question 5

Anger, Bitterness:

Answer 5

• “They halved themselves in the dark water”

Question 6

Reconciliation:

Answer 6

• ” With a show of tipping in unison”

Question 7

Compare With: Neutral Tones

Answer 7

• Nature, they both start with ponds
• They both start in the past
• They both start with a bad, miserable start

Question 8

Compare With: Singh Song

Answer 8

• They are always apart in the poem
• At the end of the poem, they are together
• Happy Ending
• A lot of Pathetic Fallacy

Question 9

Compare With: Sonnet 29 “ I Think Of Thee”

Answer 9

• Nature is shown
• Their relationship is distant
• In the end, they are together

Question 10

Structure:

Answer 10

• Separated in the first five stanzas
• United in the final two
• “I noticed our hands, that had, somehow swum the distance between us and folded, one over the other”

Question 11

Form:

Answer 11

• In the three line stanzas, looks unbalanced, just like their relationship