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Inspirations
Motifs
Name That Poem
Device Identification
Literal Meaning
100

What is the name of the daughter who inspired one of G. Clarke's poems in this collection? hint: the title is eponymous

Catrin
100
Name one poem where the main motif is the destruction of nature.
Friesian Bull or Neighbours or maybe Heron at Port Talbot
100
I submit like a blind and folded baby
Journey
100
Here in the Museum, like death in a hospital, reasons are given.
Simile
100
Journey's metaphorical journey to the afterlife is literally...
Gillian Clarke riding as passenger in a car in the night time on a country road
200
Miracle on St. David's Day was inspired by what true event?
When a mute man began reciting poetry (William Wordsworth's Daffodils) 
200
Name two poems that makes use of birds as a symbol
Miracle on St. David's Day, Buzzard, Heron at Port Talbot, Neighbours
200
No sutures in the steep brow of this cranium
Buzzard
200
"a woman sits not listening, no seeing, not feeling"
Tricolon and/or parallelism 
200
From Babysitting, it states that "she rises sobbing from the monstrous land." What is the literal meaning?
The baby waking up from sleeping/dreaming
300
'Neighbours' is a response to which event?
The nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl
300
Still Life deals with which motifs?
Friendship, endless toiling of friendship, individualism, conflict, stillness, appearance versus reality
300
Beside the bleached bone in the terminal ward
Babysitting
300
straight, strong, long brown hair
Assonance 
300
"Red rope of love"

Identify the literal meaning and poem title.

The umbilical cord (Catrin) 
400
Which poem was inspired by a near car crash?
Heron at Port Talbot
400
Name two poems that deal with the cyclical nature of life and explain why. 
Journey (dealing with afterlife)

Lunchtime Lecture (images of young woman as tree. eternity etc) 

Buzzard (skull, life, glory versus cowardice)

Neighbours (cycle disrupted) 

My Box (family, generations and tree)

400
The sun goes down in the sea and the moon's translucent
Clocks
400
"Certainly there are white gates"


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"out of its box of sorrows"

Allusion 
400
"In a cage of first March sun" Name poem and literal meaning
The shadows of window bars on a woman's face, from Miracle on St. David's Day. 
500
Name the two poems inspired by skulls. 
Buzzard and Lunchtime Lecture
500
Name three poems that address the motif of motherhood and explain why
Possible answers:

Babysitting (milk familiar- mothers bond irreplaceable) 

Catrin (bond & tension between mother and daughter)

My Box (passing down of information to next generations)

Clocks (about her grandson but could also be interpreted as motherhood and passing of knowledge, joy in childhood)

Musician (adoration of her son's talents) 

Family House (description of her mother, her bright hair and her power) 


500
Essentially each object remains cold
Still Life
500
"Sanded and oiled and planed"
Polysyndeton 
500
The fleeting nature of friendship was literally portrayed as what? Name the poem and literal situation. 
Brass objects that always need polish and cool afterwards in Still Life