Reasons for attendance

Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Judging/critiquing thos einside that fulfill societal expectations
2. Questions if he is truly happy in his individuality

Question 2

1 - ‘draws me a moment to the __ __’

Answer 2

lighted glass - barriers + outsider, who is enticed + allured

Question 3

1 - ‘shifting intently, __ to flushed __’

Answer 3

face -alliteration = rigid/naive - following the group + mocking them

Question 4

1- ‘__ on the beat of happiness’

Answer 4

solemnly - antithesis = putting on a performance too fulfill societies expectations

Question 5

1 - ‘Rough-tongued -bell (art, if you like) whose __ sound’

Answer 5

individual - metaphor/parenthesis - intellectual superiority

Question 6

1 - ‘I too am __’

Answer 6

individual - different from the group

Question 7

2 - ‘With __. Therefore I stay __’

Answer 7

happiness…outside - He is happy with his individuality

Question 8

2 - __ this, and they __ to and fro/beleiving that; and both are satisfied’

Answer 8

beleiving…moul - anaphora = contrast of mocking them + satisfied with differences

Question 9

2 - ‘If no one has misjudged himself. Or __’

Answer 9

lied - Volta = is he really happy? + does he want to be part of the group - deceived himself/no better than the dancers