Poem at Thirty-Nine revision quiz

What is this poem about?

• A newly wed couple

• The relationship between the persona and his daughter

• How much the persona hates working

• The relationship between the person and her father

What does the free verse structure show?

• The personas stream of thought

• The message they want to tell the reader

• That the poet was lazy when it came to structure

• The musical rhythm of the poem

What does the declarative 'How I miss my father' mean?

• How much she misses her father

• That she doesn't miss her mother

• Her expression of sadness and love

• Her expression of guilt and upset

What euphemistic phrase does the poet use that means death?

• Kicked the bucket

• Before the end

• Met his maker

• Prior to his demise

What poems could be linked to 'Poem at Thirty-Nine'?

• 'Piano' - Nostalgia

• 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' - abandonment

• 'Remember' - death/remembrance

• 'Search for my tongue' - identity

What persona is the poem written in?

• Second person

• Third person

• First person

• Fourth person

What does the focus shift to on line 32?

• Present - how she looks and cooks just like him

• Past - when he taught her to tell the truth

• Present - the women she has become

• Past - when he taught her to manage his finances

What is enjambment?

• When a pair of successive lines rhyme

• The placing of two contrasting things/ideas close together

• The repetition of the same vowel sound in a sequence of words

• The continuation of a sentence over two lines

Which two quotes show the positive impact her father had on her life?

• 'now I look and cook just like him'

• 'I think of him now'

• 'the woman I've become'

• 'seasoning none of my life'

'seasoning none of my life' is a...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Dissonance

• Adverbial phrase