Singh Song by Daljit Nagra

Who wrote the poem 'Singh Song'?

• Owen Sheers

• Lord Byron

• Maura Dooley

• Daljit Nagra

In which year was Daljit Nagra born?

• 1966

• 1974

• 2001

• 1822

Mr Singh manages a corner shop but at every opportunity he wants to.....

• Go to the gym

• Work on his computer

• Go upstairs to see his new bride

• Go and visit his family

The speaker in the poem is Mr Singh but who is he talking too?

• His bride

• The shoppers

• His mum

• His daddy

The use of the term 'daddy' could be a term......

• to reflect the love and affection for his father

• a criticism of how his father still treats him like a child

• to make the rhyming pattern of the poem successful

• to sound appealing to his new wife

What is the pattern of the sari in this poem

• floral

• polka dot

• striped

• tartan

What is the purpose of the phonetic spelling throughout the poem?

• So that you know the poem is about an indian family

• To make the rhyming scheme sound like a nursery rhyme

• It makes the reader read it like an indian person and Nagra wanted the reader to engage with the indian accent

• So that the poem sounded romantic and loving

At the end of Stanza 2, Nagra refers to "Putney", why?

• He wanted the reader to imagine boats being rowed on the Thames

• He is trying to hint to the reader the location of the corner shop

• In Punjabi, Putney means boat

• In Punjabi, Putney means wife

The MAIN relationship (choose one only) being explored in the poem is between....

• The husband and his shoppers

• The husband and wife

• The husband and his mum

• The husband and his daddy

Stanzas 5-7 all begin 'my bride' is this because.....

• All of these verses are about the marriage & the husband's increasing obsession with his wife & neglect of the shop

• The speaker wants to emphasise that the poem is about his wife

• The writer couldn't get the rhyming pattern to work

• He has realised that he has written a lot about the shop but not much about his wife