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Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Critiques the belief of waitingfor ships that symbolise unfillfilled hopes and promises
2. Only certainty is death

Question 2

1 - ‘Always too eager for the __, we pick up bad habits of __’

Answer 2

future…expectancy - Half rhyme = everyone dosen’t live in the moment

Question 3

1 - ‘Something is always __’

Answer 3

approaching - future is inescapable + unknown

Question 4

1 - ‘__ armarda’

Answer 4

sparkling - extended metaphor = anticipation of hope for oppertunities + not realistic

Question 5

1 - ‘Refusing to make __’

Answer 5

haste - frustration/impatient

Question 6

1 - ‘Holding wretched __’

Answer 6

stalks - waiting too long for things too happen - flowers have died

Question 7

1 - ‘leaning with brasswork prinked, each rope __’

Answer 7

distinct - hyperbole = hopes for the future are unacheivable

Question 8

1 - ‘figurehead with golden __’

Answer 8

tits - bathos = foolishness of society - can never each these hopes

Question 9

2 - ‘only one ship is seeking us, a ____ familiar’

Answer 9

black-sailed - metaphor = the great unknown of death is the only thing we can expect

Question 10

2 - ‘__ silence’

Answer 10

birdless - no life/absence + no afterlife