Homemade Swimming Hole

Read the following lines from Homemade Swimming Hole-

Seconds later

I resurface

Moist evening air

surrounds me

as I float on my back

What feeling do the lines above create for the reader?

• restlessness

• anxiety

• calm

• excitement

What does the word bewitched mean as it's used on line 16 of the poem?

• fascinated

• put a spell on

• lost in time

• witch

Which words from the poem made you feel like you could almost smell, hear, or see?

• clamber, cold, chocolate, moist, darkening,

• ladder, jump, rope, water

• resurface, air, back, sky

• place, sky, evening, feet

What form of poetry is this poem an example of?

• Narrative

• Lyrical

• Free Verse

• It isn't a poem

What is the main message of this poem?

• Enjoy the small things in life

• Never go swimming alone

• It's never good to swim in a lake

• Swimming is bad for you

In the poem, Homemade Swimming Hole, the reader can infer that the speaker -

• wishes they were back at home

• doesn't like to swim

• enjoys swimming in the lake

• doesn't like to float

Why does the poet include lines 19 and 20?

There is no better place

on Earth

• to show that the speaker doesn't want to go to another planet

• to show the reader how much the speaker enjoys being where he is

• to show that the speaker loves planet Earth

• to show that the speaker is in a swimming pool

The description in line 10

'into chocolate water'

helps the reader understand that -

• the speaker is in his bathtub

• the speaker is at the swimming pool

• the speaker is in a bowl of chocolate milk

• the speaker is in a lake

Which line helps the reader imagine what it's like to swim in a lake?

• there is no better place on earth

• seconds later I resurface

• before I plunge into chocolate lake

• I clamber up the ladder

When the speaker of the poem says "as I float on my back, bewitched by the evening sky" he is talking about-

• looking the stars in the sky

• looking at the clouds

• looking at the sun

• looking at the water