Main ideas and themes

Question 1

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Holy Thursday’

Answer 1

• The idea of children being naturally pure and innocent, good ending connection with God ( singing )
• Contrast between the behaviour of the children went under the authority of the ‘ beadles’ and when they are singing free from the constraints upon them
• Implicit criticism of the church in the description of the ‘Beadles’ as they make a show of the public service when actually the children show signs of neglect

Question 1

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Equilibrium’ ?

Answer 1

• demonstrates the cycle of life : birth and death
• Opposites complimenting each other / being an equilibrium
• Contextually, the poet’s grandfather had Alzheimers ( disease that ate away at brain )

Question 2

Ideas and attitudes in ‘The Bluebell’ ?

Answer 2

• reflecting on the ‘better old days’
  Based off of poet
• Her life has lost aim, trying to please others
• Projects on bluebell, allows herself to mourn times when she was happier
• A loop

Question 3

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Midnight on the Great Western’ ?

Answer 3

• Hardy’s fears of the countryside being ruined and what will happen to the boy who is ont his journey
• The pome is a metaphor for life and Thomas Hardy believes children will be hurt by industrialisation

Question 4

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Prayer’ ?

Answer 4

• About the different phases of life ( death )
• Spiritual
• Religious
• How his mother died from cancer/ suffered
• Him telling her he loved her
• How words hold importance ( prayers, no words to describe emotion )

Question 5

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Happy Birthday Moon’

Answer 5

• Story of deaf boy being read a story of ‘happy birhtday moon’
• Explores the relationhsip between child and father as story is being read where he is trying to tesch him words. the son is deaf so there is a lack of understanding/ communication

Question 6

Ideas and attitudes in ‘ Out, Out- ‘

Answer 6

• Depicts ordinary people events = a boy in a saw accident resulting in him loosing his hand.
• Shows the fragility of life / vu erability of the boy / youth

Question 7

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Tea With Our Grandmothers’

Answer 7

• Different cultural background
• Condolences of the lost / bringing people together
• Tribute for grandmas

Question 8

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Baby Song’

Answer 8

• A baby exploring birht, comparing past and future of inside womb and outside ( light / dark, jolly/ angry , ease / refusal )
• Falling form a peaceful womb into a corrupt and roaring world

Question 9

Ideas and attitudes in ‘You’re’

Answer 9

• About her child
• Being pregnant/ going through the process without knowing the, ( the child )

Question 10

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Cold Knap Lake’ ?

Answer 10

• Reflects on memory and past
• Ponders whether her memory was originally her own from her childhood or if it was something she was told and was never there for

Question 11

Ideas and attitudes in ‘My First Weeks’?

Answer 11

• Shows reflection of their first weeks as a new born baby
• Explores the intial simplicity of life depciting it as a paradise and using holy immagery

Question 12

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Venus’s-flytraps ‘ ?

Answer 12

• Children being exposed to things without adult experience
• • Demonstrates the warped an ddmagain effect sof expose to adult content to children / being exposed to smth too early

Question 13

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Love’ ?

Answer 13

• About the love and unfamiliarity of becoming a mother
• Becoming better at her role/ familiar with her baby more
• Inexperience and learning/ adapting

Question 14

Ideas and attitudes in ‘Theme for English B’ ?

Answer 14

• Seeking identity - about black american students at a time of prejudice / common place of racism
• About the boy discovering himself and his idenity
• mkaes speaker go on a jounrey trying to articulate who he is , centred aorinf differences and simialrites towards race and culture.