Coming

Question 1

What arrival of which season is the poem about?

Answer 1

About the arrival of spring and nature

Question 2

Who influenced Larkins work?

Answer 2

Thomas Hardy

Question 3

Who was Thomas Hardy and what were the romantics? Who can be compared to the romantics?

Answer 3

He was part of the Romantics and they were really happy. Whereas the movement writers were realistic and unsentimental

Question 4

What type of tone runs through the poem?

Answer 4

A peaceful one

Question 5

1) “light, __ and yellow”
- colon? image? mood?

Answer 5

1) chill
- tricolon, simple yet calming image,
warmth

Question 6

2) “__ the serene foreheads of __”
- what surrounds us? method? opposite of rural?

Answer 6

2) bathes, houses
- nature, personification, urban

Question 7

3) “__ - surrounded”
- links to who? image?

Answer 7

3) laurel
- thomas hardy, hopeful celebratory image of nature

Question 8

4) “ it will be __ soon”
- behaviour? feeling?

Answer 8

4) spring
- childlike, excitement

Question 9

5) “but can __ nothing but the unusual laughter that starts to be __”
- attempt? childhood? movement? power? moment? thoughts? nature?

Answer 9

5) understand, happy
- no attempt to understand, childhood innocence, of spring, simple, singular, uninterrupted, simple