If, my darling

Question 1

what are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. What the woman may expect/desire to find within his head
2. what the woman will truly find

Question 2

1 - ‘But to jump, like __’

Answer 2

alice - similie = patronising + naivity of the girl, as she expects something different to what is truly within his head

Question 3

1 - ‘no mahogany claw-fotted sideboards, no undisturbed __’

Answer 3

embers - negators = the things she would expect to find - domestic/traiditonal lifestyles, that he rejects

Question 4

1 - ‘Nor the shelves stuffed with small-printed books for the __’

Answer 4

sabbath - sibilence = rejecting religion

Question 5

1 - ‘nor the butler bibulous, the __ lazy’

Answer 5

housemaids - oxymoron = his mind dosn’t match with her expectations + societal expectations

Question 6

2 - ‘monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of __ circles’

Answer 6

infected - presents the speakers mind as lifeless

Question 7

2 - ‘a greccian __ kicked in the privates’

Answer 7

statue - his perception of her is weak - what he truly thinks of her

Question 8

2 - ‘she’d be stopping her ears against the incessant recital intoned by __’

Answer 8

reality - aurial imagery = incapable of interpretating his mind + patronising