Boland

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Irish history and idea of a nation, violence, experience of being a woman, suburban life, marriage

Question 2

The War Horse Quotes

Answer 2

1 Clip clop casual
2 Stamps death (V)
3 Screamless dead (V,SL)
4 We are safe (SL)
4/5 Corpses, remote, crushed, mutilated (V)
6 Recalling days of burned countryside (V,IH)

Question 3

Child of our time Quotes

Answer 3

1 We who should have known
2 With rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleep
3 Broken images rebuild themselves around your limbs (V)
4 Whose life our idle talk has cost (V)
5 Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken (IH)

Question 4

This Moment Quotes

Answer 4

1 A neighbourhood. At dusk. (SL)
2 Things are getting ready/to happen/out of sight. (SL)
3 But not yet
4 Yellow as butter (SL)
5 This moment

Question 5

Love Quotes

Answer 5

1 The bridge (M)
2 We (M)
3 Feather and muscle of wings (M)
4 I see you as a hero in a text (M)
5 Will we ever live so intensely again? (M)
6 You walk away and I cannot follow (M)

Question 6

The Famine Road Quotes

Answer 6

1 Idle as trout in light (IH)
2 Iron, Snow
3 Directionless (IH)
4 As if at a corner butcher- the others buttock (IH,V)
5 Dusk (IH,V)
6 We march the corn to the ships in peace (IH)
7 What is your body now if not a famine road (IH,W)

Question 7

The shadow doll Quotes

Answer 7

1 Survives (W,M
2 Under glass, under wraps (W,M)
3 Never feeling (M)
4 I kept repeatedly (W,M)
5 Pressing down, pressing down again (W,M)
6 Locks (W,M)