Plenty by Isobel Dixon

In Stanza 1, we learn that the mother

• is worried about money

• has 5 young children

• is struggling to care for the household

In Stanza 4, these are the things that the mother could afford except

• flour

• bread

• toilet paper

• petrol

Choose on line that shows that the poet’s childhood was tough and that her family struggled to cope with basic necessities

• "disgorged from fat brass taps”

• “where dams leaked dry and windmills stalled”

• “it was a clasp to keep us all from chaos”

Identify the poetic device in “it was a clasp to keep us all from chaos”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Juxtaposition

These assumptions are true about the mother EXCEPT

• she appreciates good times with the children

• she seems strict and as though she doesn’t allow the children to have fun

• the poet’s mother raised her five children by herself

What happens in the last stanza of the poem?

• there is an absence of a father figure

• the children test the limits of their mother’s patience

• the poet misses her childhood