Set 1

Question 1

Mother, any distance - an…..

Answer 1

Anchor. Kite.

Question 2

Mother, any distance - endless….

Answer 2

sky to fall or fly

Question 3

Mother, any distance - prairies

Answer 3

of floor

Question 4

Mother, any distance - you pinch

Answer 4

at the last hundredth of an inch

Question 5

Mother, any distance - you at

Answer 5

the zero end

Question 6

Before you were mine - thought

Answer 6

the thought of me doesn’t occur

Question 7

Before you were mine - actions

Answer 7

shriek, laugh

Question 8

Before you were mine - on

Answer 8

the way home from mass

Question 9

Before you were mine - eh

Answer 9

pal, sweetheart

Question 10

before you were mine - ghost

Answer 10

your ghost clatters towards me

Question 11

Follower - work

Answer 11

my father works

Question 12

Follower - eyes

Answer 12

his eyes narrowed and angled to the ground

Question 13

Follower - back

Answer 13

rode me on his back

Question 14

Follower - shadow

Answer 14

follow in his broad shadow

Question 15

Follower - sail

Answer 15

Globbed like a full sail strung

Question 16

Mother, any distance poet

Answer 16

Simon Armitage

Question 17

Before you were mine poet

Answer 17

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 18

Follower poet

Answer 18

Seamus Heaney

Question 19

Mother, any distance themes

Answer 19

Independence, Strong Bonds, Distance

Question 20

Mother, any distance comparison poems

Answer 20

Independence - before you were mine
Strong Bonds - before you were mine, follower
Distance - follower

Question 21

Follower themes

Answer 21

Strong Bonds - mother, any distance, before you were mine
Admiration - before you were mine
Distance - mother, any distance, winter swans
Nature - winter swans
Memory - before you were mine

Question 22

Before you were mine themes

Answer 22

Independence - mother, any distance
Strong Bonds - mother, any distance, follower
Admiration - Follower
Desire - Porphyria’s Lover
Memory - Neutral Tones

Question 23

Climbing my grandfather poet

Answer 23

Andrew Waterhouse

Question 24

Climbing my grandfather context

Answer 24

Waterhouse studied and taught environmental science
Background in a semi-industrial town, as reflected in his poems
Poems believed to be auto-biographical

Question 25

Climbing my grandfather mountain

Answer 25

‘Traverse’, ‘altitude’, ‘summit’

Question 26

Climbing my grandfather safety

Answer 26

‘Without a rope or net’

Question 27

Climbing my grandfather shoulders

Answer 27

‘Still firm shoulders’

Question 28

Climbing my grandfather birds

Answer 28

‘Clouds and birds circle’

Question 29

Climbing my grandfather weave

Answer 29

‘Pushing into the weave’

Question 30

Mother, any distance context

Answer 30

Armitage’s first house was only down the street of his parents Book of match’s (poems as quick as a March burning)

Question 31

Follower context

Answer 31

Family were all farmers Many of his poems have an autobiographical feel Many speakers in his poems struggle with identity Feel like an outcast

Question 32

Before you were mine context

Answer 32

Looking at a photo Societal expectations of 1950s and how their mother challenged them Generationally, Duffy was separated from her mother by WW2 contributing to the perceived distance