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WorksheetsCatrin by Gillian Clarke
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Where is Gillian Clarke from?
Wales
England
Ireland
Scotland
Who is the poem named after?
Clarke's daughter.
Clarke's mother.
Clarke's sister.
Clarke's friend.
How many stanzas does the poem have?
1
2
3
4
What technique does Clarke use by saying "you"?
Direct address
Personification
Personal pronoun
Second person
What does the “hot, white // Room” connote?
Claustrophobic and sterile.
Sunny and calm.
Clean and peaceful.
Warm and comfortable.
What technique is used here: ‘the tight red rope of love’ ?
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Pathetic fallacy
What does ‘the tight red rope of love’ represent?
The umbilical cord
Anger between mother and child
Emotional closeness
An actual rope
What technique is used here: "our first // Fierce confrontation"?
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Sibilance
What does this quotation show: "We want, we shouted,// To be two, to be ourselves."?
Clarke doesn't want to let her daughter go.
Clarke and Catrin never got on with each other.
Both Catrin and Clarke want to be independent.
Clarke didn't want to give birth.
What does "as you stand there // With your straight, strong, long // Brown hair" tell us about Catrin?
Catrin is strong and defiant.
Clarke loves her daughter's hair.
Catrin is very tall.
Catrin is very concerned with her appearance.
What made Clarke think about this conflict again?
She was having another child.
Clarke didn't want Catrin to skate as it was dangerous.
Catrin wanted to skate longer in the dark.
Catrin was pregnant.
Juxtaposition is...
The figurative comparison between two unlike things
Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast
A position on the football field
What readers do when they compare and contrast
What else might 'in the dark' refer to?
Clarke can't understand her daughter.
Just skating.
Catrin doesn't understand her mother's worries.
What message do you think the poem gives us?
It's okay to have conflict in a mother / child relationship
Conflict within a mother / child relationship never fully ends
You should never argue with a child
Never have children
What does the 'glass tank' refer to?
The fish tank Catrin had when she was younger
The hospital room
The glass tank of emotion
The tank Catrin feels trapped in.
How many children does Clarke have?
3 - 2 boys and 1 girl
4 - 2 boys and 2 girls
3 - 1 boy and 2 girls
1 - a girl
What has Gillian Clarke been?
British Poet of the Year
National Welsh Poet
Poet Laureate
None
What tense the first stanza written in?
Past
Present
Future
What tense the second stanza written in?
Past
Present
Future
