What Were They Like?

Which of the following is not a theme of the poem?

• War

• Culture

• Anger

• Femininity

Check off all the techniques that Levertov has used in 'What Were They Like?'

• Questioning

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical question

• Rhyming couplets

Which statement do you think is the most accurate?

• Levertov uses the question and response format to expose the wrong doing and the crimes against humanity which so appalled her.

• It is clear that Levertov was in favour of the war, but disagreed with the deaths of innocent Vietnamese civilians.

• Levertov wrote this poem to make the reader think about the effect war has on the population and culture of a country.

• Levertov believed that the destruction of the Vietnamese people's way of life was a necessary evil to achieve victory in the war.

Complete this quote:

Perhaps they gathered once to delight in __________, but after their children were killed/ there were no more buds.

Levertov uses nature imagery to present the Vietnamese people as what?

• Peaceful

• Angry

• Ignorant

• Uncivilised

The form of the poem is ________ verse.

Is the use of questioning in the poem a language technique or a structural technique?

• Language

• Structural

How many stanzas are in the poem?