Absences

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. the speakers perception of the natural world
2. the speaker imagining the natural world without human influence

Question 2

1 - ‘the rain patters on a sea that tilts and __’

Answer 2

sighs - onomatopeia + personification = illustrate4s the variation + function of the natural world + its power

Question 3

1 - ‘fast-running floors, collapsing into __’

Answer 3

hollows - constant movement of the natural world + unpredictable and uncontrollable

Question 4

1 - ‘a __ drops like a wall’

Answer 4

wave - similie = voilent and destructive power of nature, more powerful than man

Question 5

1 - ‘where there are no ships and no __’

Answer 5

shallows - emphasising natures presence, through the removal of humanity/human interference

Question 6

2 - ‘above the sea, the yet more __ day’

Answer 6

shoreless - physical boundary, as the speaker acknolwedges his own insignificance, compared to the vastness of the natural world

Question 7

2 - ‘lit-up __’

Answer 7

galleries - manmade

Question 8

2 - ‘such attics cleared of me! such __’

Answer 8

absences - anaphora = perception of the natural world through human terms, as we project ourselves outside of the natural world