Myxomatosis

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. From the perspective of the rabbit
2. From the perspective of the man who puts the rabbit out of it’s misery

Question 2

1 - ‘__ in…a soundless field’

Answer 2

caught - disease is a predator + the enviroment has become corrupted

Question 3

1 - ‘__ hours go by’

Answer 3

inexplicable - rabbit is unable to explain - confused + powerless

Question 4

1 - ‘What __ is this?’

Answer 4

trap - disease is like a trap + invoice of the rabbits thoughts

Question 5

1 - ‘where were its teeth __?’

Answer 5

concealed - personification - disease is an animal

Question 6

2 - ‘then clean my __’

Answer 6

stick - monosyllabic = blunt tone and nature of death

Question 7

2 - ‘I’m __ I can’t explain’

Answer 7

glad - voice of speaker on the rabbit - speaker has intimacy with nature

Question 8

2 - ‘come __ again’

Answer 8

right - rabbit perhaps hopes for recovery

Question 9

2 - ‘keep quite __ and wait’

Answer 9

still - monosyllabic - the rabbit is innocent in hoping it could escape death _ naive in misguiding the truth of death