Neutral Tones

Question 1

Neutral Tones. Stz 1/4
“We stood by a pond that winter day”…”And a pond edged with with greyish leaves”

Answer 1

Repetition, imagery, cyclical nature.
Begins and ends with the pond. Nothing changes, his pleas go unheard.

Question 2

Neutral Tones. Stz 1
“And a few leaves lay on the starving sod”

Answer 2

Pathetic fallacy. Feels deprived of essential resource

Question 3

Neutral Tones. Stz 2
“Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles solved years ago”

Answer 3

Simile. Presents disgust, they know about the speaker and isn’t entranced by the mystery.
1/2 Rhyme. Emphasises lack of interest.

Question 4

Neutral Tones. Stz 3
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”

Answer 4

Smile is dead - no truth behind it.
Superlative adjective. “Deadest thing”

Question 5

Neutral Tones. Stz 4
“Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped me”.

Answer 5

Time marker. “Since then”
Personification. “Love deceives”
Alliteration. “Wrings with wrong”,
Still scared of love