In each blank, try to type in the
word that is missing. If you've
typed in the correct word, the
blank will turn green.
If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: It can be bitter here at like this,
November wind sweeping across the border.Answer: The poem with a dark, freezing November night, symbolic of a cruel, harsh Ireland - Virgin Question: The won’t let up. Trees
cavort in agony as if they would be free
and take off — ghost voyagersAnswer: and unsettling imagery of the trees writhing and struggling to break free of their rooted shackles - the soil of Ireland stifles and stultifies - Virgin
Question: They call me Mary - Blessed, Holy, Virgin.
They fit me to a myth of a man :Answer: The statue does not relish her role - various titles have been thrust upon her - she has been used and by people who have shaped their own idea of the statue to fit their own understanding of religion - Virgin Question: They before me and their prayers
fly up like sparks from a bonfire
that blaze a moment, then wink out.Answer: Prayers are futile and ineffectual - Mary's role is just - she is unable to act - Virgin Question: centre of our foolish dance,
burning of stone,
molten mother of us all,
hear me and have pity.Answer: Ironically the statue does not call on a catholic god but on the sun god - Virgin
Question: My mother would spare me and say,
‘Hurry up now and don’t be talking to strange
men on the way.’ Answer: We are immediately into the action - the direct speech lends the poem a sense of urgency - Winkles
Question: the be wet and glisten blue like little
night skies themselves.Answer: The child imagines the wonder and mystery of the winkles - lovely sense of anticipation in these evocative lines - use of tactile and visual imagery - use of and a striking simile - Winkles
Question: I’d wave up to women at sills or those
lingering in doorways and weave a glad path through
men out for the night.Answer: Enjambment increases the pace of the poem - sense of anticipation and excitement. Also, assonance - long vowel slow down our reading of the poem - Winkles
Question: I’d bear the newspaper twists
bulging fat with home, like torches.Answer: The final striking simile suggests the child's victory and sense of achievement as she has completed the epic quest of "buying winkles" - Winkles
Question: Little has come down to me of hers,
a machine, a wedding band,
a clutch of photos, the sting of her hand
across my face in one of our warsAnswer: Meehan is and honest in these stark opening lines - Pattern
Question: We'd grow solemn as planets
in an intricate orbit her.Answer: Memorable simile of the children circling around their mother - she was clearly a key figure in their lives - Question: He shoved my whole head
under the kitchen tap, took a scrubbing brush
and carbolic soap and in ice-cold water he scrubbed
every of lipstick and mascara off my face.Answer: The vowel sounds i.e. assonance emphasise the violence
Woman repressed in patriarchal society - Pattern
Question: Tongues of flame in her dark eye
she'd say, ‘One of these days I you to follow a pattern.’Answer: Why not now? Perhaps the mother realises that she to let her daughter follow her dreams not someone else's pattern - Pattern
Question: In her -warming and tender poem, "Buying Winkles", Meehan recalls the excitement and anticipation of being sent on an errand to buy winkles. The poem beautifully evokes 1960s Dublin
Answer: Sentence - Winkles Question: Paula Meehan wrote this shocking, powerful dramatic monologue in response to the tragic death of 15 year-old Ann , who died after giving birth to her baby at the grotto in Granard, Co. Longford
Answer: Topic Sentence - Question: This poem us with a series of snapshots detailing the fractured relationship between the poet and her mother, as well as exploring the pressing social issues of the time.
Answer: Topic Sentence - Question: I wore that dress
with little grace. To me it spelt poverty,
the stigma of the hand.Answer: Meehan's working class origins are addressed here- the repeated "s" sound reinforces her shame, it is as though she is spitting out all the Question: the Liffey for hours pulsing to the sea
and the coming and going of ships,
certain that one day it would carry me
to Zanzibar, Bombay, the Land of the .Answer: The verb suggests the vibrant and colourful life that lay beyond Dublin - stark contrast tween the exotic of Zanzibar and Bombay to the cramped world of the flat she grew up in
Question: I would break loose of my stony robes,
pure blue, pure , as if they had robbed
a child’s sky for their colour.Answer: Stony robes - repression of sexuality
A symbol of a stifled and religion - assonance emphasises the despair
Question: ‘Tell yer Ma I picked them this morning.’Answer: Colloquial language brings the voices of 1960s city Dublin to life
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