I remember, I remember

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Speakers disattatchment with his childhood home
2. the dissapointment and high expectations of childhood, that he didn’t meet

Question 2

1 - ‘Coming up England by a different __’

Answer 2

line - no connection with his own childhood

Question 3

1 - ‘why coventry! I exclaimed. I was __ here.’

Answer 3

born - juxstaposition = no familiarity with his childhood home + lack of emotional connection

Question 4

1 - ‘That this was still the town that had been __’

Answer 4

mine - attempts to build a connection

Question 5

2 - ‘no, only where my childhood was __’

Answer 5

unspent - compound adjective = wasted away his childhood, as he didn’t take advantage of it

Question 6

2 - ‘our garden, first: where I did not __’

Answer 6

invent - negation = what he didn’t have - pessimistic - what should’ve happened, as he has unrealistic expectations + absence of achievement

Question 7

2 - ‘I never tan to when I got __’

Answer 7

deppressed - emotional distance + lack of acheivments

Question 8

2 - ‘all became a __ mist’

Answer 8

burning - unrealistic expectations

Question 9

2 - I suppose it’s not the __ fault’

Answer 9

places - acceptance of his dissapointing childhood

Question 10

2 - ‘nothing, like something, happens __’

Answer 10

anywhere - antithesis = universal dissapointment, that he eventually accepts as his reality