Songs of Ourselves Vol. 1 part 3 Childhood

Little Boy Crying: What does the juxtaposition of emotions in " your laughter metamorphosed into howls" show?

• how the child's feelings are fleeting and changeable

• how the father is unstable and guilty

• how the child is seriously hurt

• how the father is an ogre

What is the form of 'Those Winter Sundays'?

• Lyric poem

• Villanelle

• Sonnet

• Elegy

Little Boy Crying: What does the metaphor in "you stand there angling for a moment's hint" show?

• The metaphor shows the father is hoping for forgiveness.

• The metaphor shows the child is searching for a failing of the father's resolution.

• The metaphor shows the child is searching for something terrible.

• The metaphor shows the father is searching for guilt.

Rising Five: How does the word "bud" show immaturity?

• Bud is what you call your friends when you are young.

• A bud is anything that is just starting out in life.

• A bud is not fully grown yet into a flower, it hasn't matured yet.

Those Winter Sundays: What does the line ‘speaking indifferently to him’ tell us about the speaker and his father?

• Indifferently means without interest, so it shows that the speaker is scared of his father.

• Indifferently means without interest, so it shows that there is little love or care for his father from the speaker.

• Indifferently means without interest, so it shows that the speaker doesn't care about anything in life.

Rising five: What poetic device is used for "little coils of hair"?

• visual imagery

• simile

• personification

• sibilance

What type of imagery is used in stanza 2 of Little Boy Crying?

• Auditory imagery

• Scientific imagery

• Visual imagery

• Fairytale imagery

Those Winter Sundays: what does the line at the end of stanza 1, "No one every thanked him." tell us about the speaker and his father?

• that the speaker and his family were ungrateful for all the hard work the father did.

• that the speaker and his family were grateful for all the hard work the father did but unable to show it.

• it emphasises the father's loneliness.

• it emphasises the father's self-sufficiency

Rising five: what technique is used in this line " And every tree swilled with green"?

• auditory imagery

• visual imagery

• metaphor

• olfactory imagery

Those Winter Sundays: What technique is used in the line “and put his clothes on in the blueback cold”?

• Sibilance

• Visual imagery

• Alliteration

• Synesthesia