1. Year 4 Poetry Quiz
Revision

2. 1. What type of poem deals with the theme of love or unattainable love?

3. 2. Name two Indian tribes in “The Flower Fed Buffaloes”

4. 3. What are the two seasons in “On The Grasshopper and Cricket”?

5. 4. What is the extended metaphor in “Marrysong”
4. What is the extended metaphor in “Marrysong”? Give 3 examples of language use in this way.

6. 5. Who is “First Love” based on?

7. 6. What is the structure of a Petrarchan Italian Sonnet ?

8. 7. Which poems are Petrarchan sonnets?

9. 8. Which poems are Shakespearian Sonnets and what form does they take?

10. 9. Give an example of anaphora in Sonnet 43?

11. 10. List 8 ways in which Elizabeth Barrett Browning loves Robert Browning

12. 11. Which poems are about unattainable love?

13. 12. Which 3 poems does Boey Kim Cheng use as inspiration for “Report To Wordsworth”?

14. 13. Where does Boey Kim Cheng live now and why?

15. 14. Where is the poem “Lament set”?

16. 15. What does Lament mean?

17. 16. Who is Frieda in the poem “Full Moon and Little Frieda”?

18. 17 What does the moon represent/ signify in “Full Moon and Little Frieda?”

19. 18. What are the prevalent themes in “Amends”?

20. 19. What poetic device is used to bring the moon to life?

21. 20. What are humans responsible for in “Amends?”

22. 21. How is the concept of time described in “Time” by Allen Curnow?

23. 22. How does he describe time passing by in the poem?

24. 23. How does he describe time in an abstract way?

25. 24. Who is “The Voice” written about?

26. 25. What is the tone of the poem “The Voice”?

27. 26. How does the mood and setting reinforce his tone?

28. 27. What give “The Voice” a supernatural element?

29. 28. What is the main theme of “Dover Beach”?

30. 29. How is the sea used to convey the central theme?

31. 30. What do the contrasting images of the two seasons represent on “On The Grasshopper and a Cricket”?

32. 31. Name the 3 gods in “Report to Wordsworth” and what is their purpose?

33. 32. How is John Clare’s love described in “First Love?

34. 33. Apart from unrequited love what other theme does “First Love” refer to?

35. 34. Why does Gillian Clarke repeat the use of “for” throughout the poem “Lament”.

36. 35. List 4 types of animals and 4 different people in the poem “Lament”.

37. 36. What does “roving” mean?

38. 37. What was Lord Bryon’s reputation like and as a result what age does he die?

39. 38. The use of “loving” in “We’ll go no more a roving” has what meaning?

40. 39. What is the tone in “Flower Fed Buffaloes”?

41. 40. How does Vachel Lindsay romanticise the buffalo?

42. 41. What 3 changes have happened to the American prairies?

43. 42. What phrases show the positive side to his wife’s nature in “Marrysong”?

44. 43. What is the overall tone of “Dover Beach”?

45. 44. Where is the speaker standing at the beginning of “Dover Beach”?

46. 45. What does the light from the French coast and the reference to cliffs symbolise?

47. 46. What Classical figure does Arnold make allusion to and why?

48. 47. In the poem “Time”, time is described as being everywhere
47. In the poem “Time”, time is described as being everywhere. Give 4 examples of place.

49. 48. How does Time refer to itself in the final stanza?

50. 49. In Sonnet 29, what does she ask pity for and what doesn’t she want pity for?

51. 50. What imagery is used to describe the changing nature of love?

52. Answers Sonnet Blackfeet and Pawnees Summer and winter
Territory/ comparing the woman to geographical features. “He charted”, “roads disappeared”, “The map was never true”
Mary Joyce
Petrarchan Sonnet (octave abba abba and sestet cdecde or cdcdcd)
Sonnet 43, On a Grasshopper and a Cricket.
Report To Wordsworth, Sonnet 29 (ABABCDCDEFEFGG)
Repetition of word/phrase/clause at the beginning of word groups e.g. “I love thee” and “I shall love thee”
With her soul, to the end of time, in the routine tasks of life, throughout the day and at night, in freedom (willingly), in purity, spiritually, intensely, with a childlike fervour, never -ending

53. Answers Continued 11. First Love, Sonnet 29.
12. London 1802, The World Is Too Much With Us: Late and Soon, Compsued Upon Westminster Bridge.
13. Australia. He became very disillusioned with the rapid change and growth in Singapore.
14. In Kuwait during the Gulf war when Iraq invaded over oil.
15. It is an elegy, an expression of grief.
16. Ted Hughes’ daughter
17. Innocence and purity
18. Beauty of nature versus destruction and pollution of the planet.
19. Personification
20. Destruction of nature e.g. the quarry in the earth, the crop dusting plane, pollution and the effects this has had on not only the planet but people themselves (living in trailers)

54. Answers Continued
21. As time being everywhere and around us. Past, present and future. How time affects us and our surroundings.
22. “the rust on the railway lines”.
23. In the air, the dust, the recurrent music
24. Emma Gifford, Hardy’s first wife.
25. Wistful, mournful, regretful
26. The desolate mood of Hardy, the leaves falling and the harsh north wind capture the sadness.
27. Hardy thinks he can hear her calling to him. Is it the wind or her voice?
28. The modern challenges to religious belief which have shaken the faith people had in God and religion e.g. evolution, industry
29. The calmness contrasting with the ebb and flow of the tides show the conflict in people’s beliefs.
30. The two sides to nature, the subconscious longing for the warmth of summer, how summer symbolises youth and health whereras winter is the opposite. Even the cricket clings to the warmth of the stove which is reminiscent of summer.

55. Answers Continued
31. Proteus, Triton and Neptune. The helplessness of the gods due to the destruction of man.
32. “Sweet face”
33. The power of a woman’s beauty.
34. To emphasise the many reasons for lamenting and the many areas of destruction caused.
35. Cormorant, whale, dugong, turtle. Ahmed, a soldier, the boy fusilier and the farmer’s sons.
36. Partying/ having a good time.
37. Seen as wild and had a notorious reputation for drinking gambling and having numerous affairs. Dies at the age of 36.
38. Living life to the full and enjoying life.
39. Nostalgic and remembering the past.
40. By using words such as “Flower fed” and “ranging”
41. Buffaloes die out, the grasses of the prairies are replaced by wheat and the Indian tribes also are no more.

56. Answers Continued
42. “cool water laughing”, “suddenly she would change the shape of shores faultlessly calm”.
43. Melancholy and sad.
44. At a window looking out to sea from Dover across the channel to France.
45. The erosion of faith in God and religion at the time.
46. Sophocles who also made similar links to the sea and human misery and the fear that gods can bring about destruction on people across the generations.
47. In the countryside, in the classroom, in the office and in the park.
48. As God-life and in everything. An omnipresent being.
49. She doesn’t want pity for the inevitable changes in life such as getting older and the passing of time but she want pity for not learning from her past mistakes and repeating them again.
50. “beauties passed away”, “field to thicket”