Assisi

Question 1

‘Hands on backwards’

Answer 1

• Indicates the dwarf is begging and asking for money

- Suggests deformity

Question 2

‘Slumped like a half-filled sack’

Answer 2

• Poor posture, barely supporting his frame
• Dehumanising
• Simile
• Alliteration

Question 3

‘He had the advantage of not being dead yet’

Answer 3

-The only thing the dwarf has better than the St Francis is that he is still alive for now

Question 4

‘How clever it was of Giotto’

Answer 4

• The priest preaching and boasting about these paintings

Question 5

‘reveal to the illiterate’

Answer 5

• Belittling

- Irony as the priest should accept all but talks down on those who cannot read

Question 6

‘goodness’

Answer 6

-The priest is more impressed with the painting than the teachings he is actually practicing himself

Question 7

‘clucking contentedly’

Answer 7

• Comparing tourists to chickens

- Brainwashed and are following the crowds

Question 8

‘flutter after him’

Answer 8

-Suggests tourists are gullible as they have gave zero thought for the dwarf outside

Question 9

‘Ruined temple’

Answer 9

• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Refers to begged and how he was ignored

Question 10

‘pus’ and ‘lopsided mouth’

Answer 10

-Has clear connotations of disease and deformation

Question 11

‘as sweat as a child’s voice when he speaks with his mother’

Answer 11

• simile
• the inner beauty of the begger
• he is still thankful

Question 12

What is the tone of this poem?

Answer 12

-Irony

Question 13

What other poems links to this one and why?

Answer 13

• ALL ARE A HUMAN EXPERIENCE

- Hotel room 12th floor, contrast