Lines on a young ladies photograph

Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem

Answer 1

1. The power of photography to capture and preserve the past
2. The speakers melancholic reflection on the irrevocability of time and is own exclusion from the young ladies past - initaially excited + eager to see them

Question 2

1 - ‘At last you __’

Answer 2

Yeilded - time marker = has been waiting anxiously to see the photos + surrendered to showing him

Question 3

2 - ‘Glossy’ + ‘__ pages!’

Answer 3

Thick - Exclematory = Good condition of the photographs + excited

Question 4

1 - ‘Confectionary’ + ‘rich’ + ‘__ images-

Answer 4

Nutritious - semantic field of food = the pictures feed + satisfy his needs

Question 5

1 - ‘In __…headed rose’

Answer 5

pigtails - listing = frenzied excitment

Question 6

1 - ‘You __ at my control’

Answer 6

strike -attack at the lady, who he feels is posing for him, making her superficial

Question 7

2 - ‘__ and __’

Answer 7

faithful…dissapointing - photos always tell the truth, displaying an uncomfortable reality

Question 8

2 - ‘A chin as __ when it is’

Answer 8

doubled - authenticity of photography, that shows how she has aged/changed

Question 9

1 - ‘This __ upon her __’

Answer 9

confers…face - pronoun = seperation of the resent woman and her past self

Question 10

1 - ‘Looking out of __’

Answer 10

date - derogatory = pictures out of date + he never got too meet that version of her in real life

Question 11

1 - ‘our __’ + ‘mourn’

Answer 11

grief - relating to death = mourning her past self

Question 12

2 - ‘It holds you like a __’

Answer 12

heaven - similie = preserving them through photographs

Question 13

1 - ‘Without a chance of __’

Answer 13

consequence - the past can’t be revisited