Humming-Bird

Question 1

themes

Answer 1

dystopia (opposite of utopia)
natural world
uncorrupted landscapes
energy and vitality (embodies in the humming bird)

Question 2

beginning of time, empty, bleak, desolate, assonance drags and adds to eeriness, noise subsiding, earth is settling, after flux and change, personification

Answer 2

In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed

Question 3

contrast to stillness, bird has energy and vitality

Answer 3

Humming-birds raced down the avenues

Question 4

primitive, basic, no real life form, effort gone into creation, some life but no vibrancy,

Answer 4

Before anything had a soul

half inanimate

Question 5

once we were slab of rock, blank, only beginning to be crafted into something beautiful, but this hummingbird, in a mircle of evolution, appeared on the face of the earth, before their appearance life was like a dull, heavy slab of metal or rock, however it was like a small glinting spark chipped off from it

Answer 5

This little bit chipped off in brilliance

whizzing through the slow, vast, succulent stems

Question 6

one beautiful thing in this world, symbol of energy and vitality in this scene

Answer 6

flashed ahead of creation

Question 7

how they acquired water

Answer 7

pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak

Question 8

frightening, beast type figure

Answer 8

jabbing, terrifying monster

Question 9

We don’t see the hummingbird as he truly is/was, which was a terrifying monster, but instead as a fragile, pretty, harmless bird, bc were looking at it wrong, interesting metaphor for us not seeing hummbingbirds true identity

Answer 9

We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of Time

Question 10

he would be larger and we would be in danger/risk, iront, have we stopped the beauty of the natural world? is modern world lacking? we’ve taken over/urbanisation,

Answer 10

Luckily for us