Wires

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Within the wires + desiring to escape them
2. What is beyond the wires + the consequence of escaping them

Question 2

1 - ‘The widest prairies have __ fences’

Answer 2

electric - superlative adjective = they are restricted/trapped, but yet believe they are free

Question 3

1 - ‘they must not __’

Answer 3

stray - being trapped is nescary to survive, but yet it is damaging

Question 4

1 - ‘young steers are always __ purer water’

Answer 4

scenting - innocence of the youngsters, causes them to desire to be free and hopeful

Question 5

1 - ‘Not here but anywhere. Beyond the __’

Answer 5

wires - cesura = the blunt restriction that the youngsters feel, as they wish to be elsewhere

Question 6

2 - ‘leads them to blunder up against the __’

Answer 6

wires - they attempt to go against societal standards and escape

Question 7

2 - ‘whose __ violence gives no quarter’

Answer 7

muscle-shredding - the painful + visceral consequence of escaping societal expectations, causes us to be ‘beaten’ down to unnatural wants and needs

Question 8

2 - ‘Young steers become old __ that day’

Answer 8

cattle - maturity - they learn to accept that they can’t escape societal expectations

Question 9

2 - ‘electric limits to their __ senses’

Answer 9

widest - reiterates the entrapment that these cattle will forever feel/be succumbed too