Poetry of departures

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. we all have a desire to leave
2. But if you leave, it is artifical

Question 2

2 - ‘Sometimes you hear, __’

Answer 2

fifth-hand - parenthesis = being different is almost inattainable

Question 3

2 - ‘This audacious, purifying, __ move’

Answer 3

elemental - asyndetic listing = endless listing, showing the artifical likeliness of escaping the contaminating and toxic enviroment of society

Question 4

1 - ‘we all hate __’

Answer 4

home - collectively hate our lives for being like everyone elses

Question 5

1 - ‘the __ books, the __ bed’

Answer 5

good - structural parralel = artifical nature of society that he mocks, as he desires to leave

Question 6

2 - ‘he __ out on the whole crowd’

Answer 6

whole - speech = compares society to fiction, showing the artificiality of escaping society

Question 7

2 - ‘If it weren’t so __’

Answer 7

artifical - impossibility of escaping

Question 8

1 - ‘Books; china; a life __ perfect’

Answer 8

reprehensibly - oxymoron = trying to find meaning, as everyone wants to leave