Poets
What is the nationality of Sujata Bhatt?
Indian
Which poem begins, 'The children are at the loom of another world'?
Carpet-weavers, Morocco
Which poem contains this quotation: "Every fair from fair sometime declines"?
Sonnet 18
Which of the poems focus on nature? (Any correct answer will do)
Sonnet 18
Hunting Snake
Before the Sun
Which technique is this: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
Rhetorical Question
Apostrophe (the speaker directly addresses an absent person or an object)
Metaphor
Who is the most famous poet in the collection?
William Shakespeare
Which poem ends, 'Except I thought I recognised myself'?
The Cockroach
Which poem contains this quotation: "Which language / has not been the oppressor's tongue"?
A Different History
Which of the poems deal directly with love?
Sonnet 18
A Married State
Which technique is this: 'His shoulders globed like a full sail strung'?
Simile
Which poet is Australian?
Judith Wright - Hunting Snake
Which poems concern childhood experiences?
The Chimney Sweeper
Follower
Carpet-weavers, Morocco
Which poem contains the quotation "just two little skeletons / in the sun"?
Before the Sun
Which of the poems are concerned with parent-child relationships?
The Chimney Sweeper
Follower
Which technique is this: 'Never the one to slander her shiftless. / Daily sloven or spotless.'
Sibilance
In which century did William Blake write 'The Chimney Sweeper'?
18th Century (1789)
Which poem uses an interesting graphology in which the second stanza is aligned along a straight left margin but the first stanza is more haphazardly arranged?
A Different History
Which poem contains the quotation: "Therefore, Madam, be advised by me"?
A Married State
Which of the poems is concerned with the importance of respecting other cultures?
Carpet-weavers, Morocco
A Different History
Which technique is this: 'Cold, dark and splendid he was gone'?
Tricolon
List / Rule of Three
Which country is Charles Mungoshi from? ('Before the Sun')
Zimbabwe
Which poem is concerned with the immortality of art?
Sonnet 18
Which poem contains the phrase: "the colours of all-that-will-be fly / and freeze into the frame of all-that-was"?
Carpet-weavers, Morocco
Which of the poems concerns aimlessness and the struggle for meaning in life?
Which technique is this:
'No Blustering husbands to create your fears,
No pangs of child birth to extort your tears,
No children's cries for to offend your ears'?
Anaphora