Assisi

Question 1

Slumped like a half filled sack

Answer 1

Connotations of despair

Half filled - Unable to prop himself up

Question 2

Tiny twisted legs

Answer 2

alliteration draws attention to the fragile doll-like description which is continued with the idea of sawdust leaking

Question 3

Has the advantage of not being dead yet

Answer 3

Use of irony to show the only thing going for the beggar is that he is alive

Question 4

Main themes of Assisi

Answer 4

Contrast between rich and poor

Hypocrisy

Question 5

Eyes wept pus

Answer 5

Repulsive image of sickness and sadness demonstrating the poets anger at this hypocrisy

Question 6

Said Gracie in a voice as sweet as a child’s

Answer 6

Sweet and innocent

Contrasts inner beauty of dwarf with his exterior

Question 7

How clever it was of Giotto

Answer 7

Condensing

Sarcastic

Question 8

I understood the explanation and the cleverness

Answer 8

Irony

Emphasises that it is easy to understand the paintings but highlights the lack of understanding of the beggars plight

Question 9

Clucking

Answer 9

Suggests chicken with tiny brains

Sounds of tourists agreeing absent mindedly with the preist

Question 10

A rush of tourists clucking contentedly fluttered after him

Answer 10

Tourists are satisfied with a superficial your and are ignorant to the meaning behind the paintings and the churches morals

Alliteration to emphasise point

Question 11

The ruined temple outside

Answer 11

Body is a temple

Dwarf is externally damaged

Dismissed by tourists

Refers to him as a thing making him seem less human and less dignified as he is seen by the tourists

Question 12

Hands on backwards

Answer 12

Simplistic, childlike explanation of his deformity

Question 13

From which sawdust might run

Answer 13

Puppets used to be stuffed with sawdust so this creates the idea of him looking slumped in a heap like a loose puppet

Non living

“Running” has connotations of draining energy

Question 14

Talker with birds

Answer 14

Shows he was close to nature

Question 15

Thee three tiers of churches

Answer 15

Like a wedding cake

Question 16

A priest “explained”

Answer 16

Word choice
Active verb
Priest in charge

Question 17

Clever

Answer 17

Word choice

Connotations of sarcasm from the poet and pride form the priest

Question 18

… The goodness

Answer 18

Sentence structure

Word at end of line to emphasise it

Question 19

Understood

Answer 19

Echoes goodness

Connotations of saw through

Question 20

Cleverness

Answer 20

Echoes goodness

Sarcastic
Criticising

Question 21

Fluttered

Scattered

Clucking contentedly

Answer 21

Extended metaphor comparing the tourists to brainless chickens agreeing with priest and not seeing true picture

Question 22

Back was higher than his head

Lopsided mouth

Answer 22

Brutal language to covey the extremity of his deformities

Question 23

Priest

Answer 23

The priest is more concerned about the church than the beggar which is ironic because st Francis (who the Church was built in honour of) would have helped the beggar yet the man who greatly admires st Francis’s Church does not act on his morals

Question 24

Contrast between church and dwarf

Answer 24

They are juxtaposed to highlight what is wrong with the situation