Arrivals Departure

Question 1

How does the poem use the image of a boat arriving on the morning shore?

Answer 1

To explore life’s opportunities

Question 2

What is difficult about life’s opportunities?

Answer 2

Knowing whether or not we made the right decisions

Question 3

Who did Larkin have uncertain feelings towards?

Answer 3

Arnott

Question 4

What imagery is used?

Answer 4

Nautical

Question 5

What place did larkin leave?

Answer 5

He left Belfast and travelled back to england

Question 6

What’s the structure?

Answer 6

Three stanza poems divided into five line stanzas

Question 7

1) “where __ boats come sidling”
- what is approaching secretly? what are quiet? what is difficult to recognise? what’s presented as appealing?

Answer 7

1) channel
- boats, the opportunities, the opportunities, the opportunities

Question 8

2) “barely recalled from __ there”
- device? shows what? unconscious how? unaware of what?

Answer 8

2) sleep
- parenthesis, empathetic, in the wake of decisions, the decisions we are required to make

Question 9

3) “__ dilemmas”
- what is it? what two things does it show? - sound? makes decisions based?

Answer 9

3) horny
- pun, sound of the boats horn signalling it’s opp, based the desires and pleasure

Question 10

4) “ come and choose __, they cry”
- what does society say? device? what is it like? what inescapable?

Answer 10

4) wrong
- it says leaving mainstream society is a mistake, repetition, it’s like a siren, leaving society

Question 11

5) “or if, this night, __ too is going”
- why is everyone confused? what can we never be sure of? what does the word night show? what’s difficult?

Answer 11

5) happiness
- they don’t know what’s going to happen, never sure if we’re making the right choice, disappearing hope, trying to make decisions in the dark