Set 2

Question 1

Neutral Tones - face

Answer 1

Have shaped to me your face

Question 2

Neutral Tones - Sod

Answer 2

Starving Sod

Question 3

Neutral Tones - Sun

Answer 3

God-curst sun

Question 4

Neutral Tones - riddles

Answer 4

Tedious riddles

Question 5

Neutral Tones - Winter

Answer 5

That winter day

Question 6

Neutral Tones Poet

Answer 6

Thomas Hardy

Question 7

The Farmer’s Bride - Attic

Answer 7

She sleeps in the attic

Question 8

The Farmer’s Bride - Quiet

Answer 8

Like a mouse, I’ve hardly heard her speak

Question 9

The Farmer’s Bride - animal

Answer 9

We chased her

Question 10

The Farmer’s Bride - harvest

Answer 10

There’s more to do at harvest - time

Question 11

The Farmer’s Bride - sheep

Answer 11

Out ‘mong the sheep

Question 12

The Farmer’s Bride Poet

Answer 12

Charlotte Mew

Question 13

Porphyria’s Lover - Angel

Answer 13

White shoulder bare, glided

Question 14

Porphyria’s Lover - passion

Answer 14

Passion would sometimes pervail

Question 15

Porphyria’s Lover - possessive

Answer 15

Porphyria worshipped me, she was mine

Question 16

Porphyria’s Lover - hair

Answer 16

Yellow string I wound

Question 17

Porphyria’s Lover - blush

Answer 17

Blushed bright under my burning kiss

Question 18

Porphyria’s Lover Poet

Answer 18

Robert Browning

Question 19

Porphyria’s Lover themes

Answer 19

Romance - The Farmer’s Bride
Desire - The Farmer’s Bride
Death - Neutral Tones

Question 20

Neutral Tones Themes

Answer 20

Loss - The Farmer’s Bride
Distance - Winter Swans, The Farmer’s Bride
Nature - Winter Swans, The Farmer’s Bride
Death - Porphyria’s Lover

Question 21

The Farmer’s Bride themes

Answer 21

Romance - Porphyria’s Lover, Winter Swans
Loss - Neutral Tones
Distance - Neutral Tones, Winter Swans
Desire - Porphyria’s Lover, Winter Swans
Nature - Neutral Tones, Winter Swans
Marriage - Singh Song!

Question 22

Winter Swans Clouds

Answer 22

Clouds had given their all, then a break

Question 23

Winter Swans Icebergs

Answer 23

Icebergs of white feathers

Question 24

Winter Swans Fragile

Answer 24

Porcelain

Question 25

Winter Swans Boats

Answer 25

Boats righting in rough water

Question 26

Winter Swans Hand

Answer 26

Somehow swum the distance

Question 27

Winter Swans Flight

Answer 27

Settling after flight

Question 28

Winter Swans Poet

Answer 28

Owen Sheers

Question 29

Winter Swans Themes

Answer 29

Romance Distance Desire Nature

Question 30

When we two parted cyclical

Answer 30

In silence and tears

Question 31

When we two parted secret

Answer 31

In secret we met - in silence I grieve

Question 32

When we two parted chill

Answer 32

Sunk chill

Question 33

When we two parted winter

Answer 33

Pale grew thy cheek and cold

Question 34

When we two parted uncertainty

Answer 34

Why wert thou so dear?

Question 35

Neutral tones context

Answer 35

Hardy married Gifford Remarried after she died (both happy marriages) Depressed over Gifford death Didn’t like industrialisation, British Empire or marriage Marriage seen as fixed (women younger than man, man had more rights, divorce easier for men)

Question 36

Farmers bride context

Answer 36

3 of mews siblings committed suicide when she was a child 2 more committed to psychiatric wards Grandfather farmer (expected to marry farmer) Women couldn’t deny husbands sexual demands Women expected to do housework Men expected to earn a living

Question 37

Porphyria’s lover context

Answer 37

Browning was a Victorian poet who focused on social class, wealth, religion, love & violence Mid 19th century (sex and violence normalised through news papers) ‘Fallen woman’ lost innocence before marriage and heavily tied to their wealth

Question 38

Winter swans context

Answer 38

Welsh poet, fascinated in WW1 & WW2 Part of collection of skirred hill (skirred is Welsh for separation/ divorce) Well known for writing about places and people

Question 39

When we two parted poet

Answer 39

Lord George Brown

Question 40

When we two parted context

Answer 40

Believed to have over 200 affairs Claimed to have ‘spared’ lady Francis Lady Francis had affair with him in 1813 then lord wellington in 1816 Claimed to have written poem in 1808 (actually wrote it later)