Age

Question 1

What 2 ideas are within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Difficulties associated with aging
2. Wondering about his own legacy

Question 2

1 - ‘My __ fallen away like white swaddling’

Answer 2

age - similie = due too getting older/closer to death - comfort is gone + innocence has also been removed

Question 3

1 - ‘Floats in the middle __’

Answer 3

distance - looking back on his life, has made it difficult to understand his life

Question 4

1 - ‘I __ closer’

Answer 4

bend - keen to reflect on his past

Question 5

1 - ‘A lighted __ scuttling with voices’

Answer 5

tenement - metaphor = life is hectic + demanding - erodes our humanity

Question 6

1 - ‘O you tall __ I tired myself with joining’

Answer 6

game - Metaphor = life is different and exhausting

Question 7

2 - ‘dear __ bergs’

Answer 7

transculcent - life is silent + gains no clarity of his life

Question 8

2 - ‘Silence and __…to know what prints I leave’

Answer 8

space - speaker becomes unneeded

Question 9

2 - whether of feet…adapt __’

Answer 9

splay - all destined to leave a legacy + don’t get to decide how we will be remembered