Afternoons

Question 1

Nature quotes afternoons

Answer 1

“Summer is fading”
“The leaves fall in ones and twos”
“In the hollows of afternoons”
“The wind is ruining their courting places”
“Finding more unripe acorns”

Question 2

Power quotes afternoons

Answer 2

“Afternoons”
“Youngs mothers assemble”
“Setting free their children”
“Expect to be taken home”
“Something is pushing them To the side of their own lives”

Question 3

Love quotes afternoons

Answer 3

“Stand husbands in skilled trades”
“An estateful of washing”
“And the albums lettered, Our Wedding, lying Near the television”
“The wind is ruining their courting places”
“That are still courting places (But the lovers are all in school”

Question 4

War / conflict / death quotes afternoons

Answer 4

“In the hollows of afternoons”
“Young mothers assemble”
“Setting free their children”
“Stand husbands in skilled trades”
“An estateful of washing”
“That are still courting places (But the lovers are all in school)”
“Expect to be taken home”
“Something is pushing them To the side of their own lives”

Question 5

Time quotes afternoons

Answer 5

“Summer is fasing”
“The leaves fall in ones and twos”
“In the hollows of afternoons”
“That are still courting places (But the loves are a,l in school)”
“Their beauty is getting thickened”

Question 6

Man quotes afternoon

Answer 6

Women:
“Young mothers assemble”
“Their beauty has thickened”
“Something is pushing them To the side of their own lives”
Men
“Stand husbands in skilled trades”
“An estateful of washing”
“Our wedding, lying near the television”
Children
“Setting free their children”
“Finding more unripe acorns”
“Expect to be taken home”

Question 7

Form and structure afternoons

Answer 7

Three octaves
Structure helps illustrate what mums are feelings
Their part of surrounding tect even though main character
Free verse = lack of traditional for = against traditional stereotypes?

Question 8

Poet afternoons

Answer 8

Philip Larkin