BYRON: Skull cup

Question 1

‘inscribed’

Answer 1

permanence however poem is about temporality of life- juxtaposition

Question 2

‘start…fled’

Answer 2

syntax begins with ‘start’ ends with ‘fled’ = temporality of lfie

Question 3

‘start not-‘

Answer 3

interruption at the beginning

Question 4

‘whatever flows is never dull’

Answer 4

should be consciousness flowing through not alcohol

Question 5

‘i lived, i loved, I quaffed’

Answer 5

tricolon asyndetic listing reduces meaning of life

- alliteration in lived and loved leaves reader expecting a third l verb = anticlimax subverts expecatition

Question 6

‘i died’

Answer 6

giving death the same status as life

Question 7

‘sparkling grape’
‘worm’s slimy’
‘drink of gods’
‘reptiles foods’

Answer 7

gothic horror, death is presented in its grotesque realism

all positive and negative have sibilaince = unavoidable connection between life and death

Question 8

‘quaff while thou canst’

Answer 8

archaic language attempting to persuade his words are wise wrote poem when 19 =juvenile
monosylabbic - carpe diem

Question 9

‘why not?’

Answer 9

volta loss cockiness and confidence more reflective

Question 10

‘redeems from worms and wasting clay’

Answer 10

reference to adam formed out of clay ‘worms’ negate spirituality

Question 11

structure:

Answer 11

every second line has indent- rebell against anything that is conformist
ABAB rhyme scheme no way to escape death = inevitable
also reflection of self assurance in views of death