General / Random
'I had it as a gift,
I didn't feel much while using it.'
What is the speaker talking about?
Life
('A Consumer's Report' by Peter Porter)
What illness is the speaker of 'The Man with Night Sweats' afflicted by (probably)?
AIDS
What dies by being 'crushed in a book'?
A small fly
from 'On Finding a Small Crushed in a Book' by Charles Tennyson Turned
'All hang in the grace of __________'
(The Planners by Boey Kim Cheng)
Mathematics
'Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild ____'
('Rain' by Edward Thomas)
Rain
What has just happened to the speaker to prompt this reaction?
'I feel the top of my head / has floated off, out through the window, / revolving like a flying saucer.'
They have just been told that they have won the 'top prize' by Universal Lotteries.
('The Telephone Call' by Fleur Adcock)
Give an example of striking imagery in 'Night Sweat' by Robert Lowell?
'gray skulled horses'
'black web from the spider's sack'
'creeping damp float over my pajamas' wilted white... / sweet salt embalms me'
Which of the speaker's parents dies first in 'from Long Distance' by Tony Harrison?
His mother
'Lie a cold water among broken _____'
('Rain' by Edward Thomas)
Reeds
'Away, melancholy,
_____ with it, let it go.'
Away
('Away, Melancholy' by Stevie Smith)
Name the technique:
'Well, World, you have kept faith with me.'
('He Never Expected Much' by Thomas Hardy)
Apostrophe
Which animal does the speaker of 'Night Sweat' compare his wife to?
'Poor turtle, tortoise'
Which poem is this from?
'Blessed are the dead'
'Rain' by Edward Thomas
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and _____'
Despair
('Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
'The spirit is too blunt and instrument
to have made this _____'
Baby
('The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument' by Anne Stevenson)
Which technique is this?
'The ant is busy
He carrieth his meat.'
Anthropomorphism
Name a theme in 'The Man with Night Sweats'
Fear
Mortality
Isolation
Nostalgia etc.
'Beaten, corrupted, dying,
In his own blood lying
Yet heaves up an eye above
Cries, ______, _____.'
Love, love.
('Away, Melancholy' by Stevie Smith)
'I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone ______'
Shopping
(from 'Long Distance' by Tony Harrison)
'He was my North, my South, my East and West
My working week and my ______ _____'
Sunday rest
('Funeral Blues' by W.H. Auden)
Which poem deals with the miracle of the creation of life, but also disillusionment with love?
'The Spirit is too Blunt and Instrument' by Anne Stevenson
What is the name of this technique:
'always inside me is the child who died
always inside me is his will to die'
Anaphora
('Night Sweat' by Robert Lowell)
'The closing book may stop our vital breath,
Yet leave no ______ on our page of death,'
Lustre
('On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book' by Charles Tennyson Turner)
What technique is being used here?
'Cruising these residential Sunday
streets in dry August sunlight.'
Sibilance
('The City Planners' by Margaret Atwood)
'The hand that ____ them, and the heart that ___.'
Mocked
Fed
('Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley)