Dry point

Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Sexual desire is a restrictive desire
2. Imagining a life free from sexual desires

Question 2

1 - ‘Endlessly, time-honoured __’

Answer 2

irritant - sexual desire a constant - source of frustration

Question 3

1 - ‘__ it as fast as we can’

Answer 3

burst - try too gratify the desire - only causes it to return/burden

Question 3

1 - A __ is restivley forming at you tip’

Answer 3

bubble - metaphor = sexual desires as restrictive and impossible too control

Question 4

1 - ‘__’

Answer 4

silently - we are controlled without realising

Question 5

1 - ‘__’

Answer 5

bestial - reduces us to being primal

Question 6

1 - ‘__ hills! what salted, __ lakes’

Answer 6

ashen…shrunken - Metaphor = gratification of desire dosen’t ring fulfillment instead cause emptiness, dissapointment

Question 7

2 - ‘remote that __ and __ room’ + ‘padlocked cube of __’

Answer 7

bare…sunscrubbed…light - speaker imaginesbeing cleansed of the corrupting influence of sex - not possible