Wants Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
What are the two ideas within the poem?
A
- Things stopping him from being alone
- Lack of freedom he holds
2
Q
1 - ‘Beyond all this, the wish to be __’
A
alone - repeptition = restriction from his desire to be free from societal expectations
3
Q
1 - ‘However the sky grows dark with ____’
A
invitation-cards - pathetic fallacy = avoid family + loads of invite - refuses to go
4
Q
1 - ‘However we follow the printed directions of __’
A
sex - mechanical + everyone does the same thing
5
Q
2 - ‘artful __ of the calander’
A
tensions - contrived - avoids ritualised events + exspectations
6
Q
2 - ‘costly __’
A
aversions - sugests we don’t live fully + crtiticises society for not wanting to confront death
7
Q
2 - ‘Desire for __ runs’
A
ablivion - desires death/wants nothing
