Cozy Apologia

Question 1

the poem was dedicated to someone, showing profound love

Answer 1

for Fred

Question 2

the narrator is reminded of her love for her husband by anything

Answer 2

I could pick anything and think of you

Question 3

even the pen colour…
enjambment is used to show how the love overflows lines

Answer 3

glossy blue/ My pen exudes

Question 4

what are blue + you used for

Answer 4

they are used as a heroic couplet to show expansiveness of her love

Question 5

very typical love imagery: Cupid

Answer 5

shooting arrows to the heart,

Question 6

he is the narrators: ‘knight in shining ‘armour

Answer 6

silver stirrups…chain mail glinting

Question 7

narrator’s husband is fixed on both her and his goals

Answer 7

one eye smiling, the other firm upon the enemy

Question 8

narrator plays with time phrases and uses it to show how currently life is not as heroic

Answer 8

This post-post -modern age is all business

Question 9

this phrase shows that the narrator is not very scared of the hurricane: they often experience them due to the location of where she is

Answer 9

Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast,

Question 10

the hurricane is called a male name and is compared to a fairy-tale character, it is trivial

Answer 10

Oddly male, Big Bad Floyd

Question 11

the narrator feels bad for their indulgence in thoughts

Answer 11

awkward reminiscences

Question 12

narrator’s previous love interests were all pointless and boys, not men

Answer 12

teenage crushes on worthless boys

Question 13

the boys were useless in their aims

Answer 13

only talent…kiss you senseless

Question 14

the boys were pathetically named

Answer 14

sissy names

Question 15

simile used to describe the boys personality and character

Answer 15

thin as licorice and as chewy

Question 16

they are separate physically but the same on the inside

Answer 16

You’re.. in your…I’m…in mine

Question 17

this word suggests that they are both in the same boat (situation)

Answer 17

twin desks

Question 18

their relationship doesn’t live up to love cliche

Answer 18

fall short of the Divine

Question 19

rhetorical device to question the news

Answer 19

When has ordinary ever been news?

Question 20

The narrator is defending their thoughts about their husband whilst the storm is happening, the last line concludes the apologia

Answer 20

I fill this stolen time with you.

Question 21

What does the structure show

Answer 21

that the poem is split into 3x10 stanzas showing that it is a cosy form, reflecting the title

Question 22

what do the rhyming couplets show

Answer 22

that the poem starts off with heroic couplets but becomes more and more disjointed, thus reflecting how the love examples progress

Question 23

how do the representations of love progress

Answer 23

they start with typical cliches but move on in s2 and s3 to the poets actual ideas of love

Question 24

what meter is the poem in

Answer 24

iambic pentameter

Question 25

what is special about the title

Answer 25

it is somewhat contradictory, it juxtaposes defence and being cosy