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Question 1

Name the three main points of the poem.

Answer 1

1. Focusses more on the sexual lustful side of love
2. Shows how it can be difficult to not feel love or have lust for your partner
3. Shows the lovers’ dominance

Question 2

Name the four main motifs

Answer 2

1. The elements
2. The moon
3. The power of the lovers’ names
4. Love as a gift

Question 3

Name the three main themes

Answer 3

1. Love
2. Lust
3. Nature

Question 4

Name the 2 main lexical fields

Answer 4

1. Nature
2. Magic

Question 5

How many lines?

Answer 5

14

Question 6

How many stanzas?

Answer 6

4

Question 7

How many quatrains?

Answer 7

3

Question 8

How many couplets

Answer 8

1

Question 9

Is it a sonnet?

Answer 9

No but it is similar to one- subversion represents the tempestuous (conflicting) nature of love

Question 10

Does it have rhyme

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Is it in any specific meter

Answer 11

No

Question 12

Is there an equal number of lines

Answer 12

No- it is inconsistent- symbolises the chaotic nature of love

Question 13

Is there an equal number of lines per stanza

Answer 13

No

Question 14

Is it a stereotypical love poem

Answer 14

No- it is more lustful than loving

Question 15

Does it have much enjambment of caesura

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What is its tone

Answer 16

Erotic and highly charged

Question 17

What is the extended metaphor, if there is one?

Answer 17

Sex

Question 18

Does the narrator address the reader as if they are the object of the narrator’s affection

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

What does the title show

Answer 19

gives the poem an intimate feel as if the poem is dedicated to just one person

Question 20

What does “uninvited” show

Answer 20

That the person is powerless and unable to control how they feel. They also wouldn’t want to feel this way

Question 21

What does “too late” show

Answer 21

That the thoughts are unwelcome

Question 22

What does “bed” have connotations of

Answer 22

sex

Question 23

What does “hard, hard” have connotations of

Answer 23

Sex and arousal- it is an innuendo used twice for emphasis

Question 24

What are “like tears” and “like a charm” examples of?

Answer 24

Similes

Question 25

What can be said about the simile "like tears"

Answer 25

Melodramatic and over the top description- emphasises how the speaker feels

Question 26

What is "soft, salt, on my lips"

Answer 26

Sibilance- soft sounds. Can also be a snake, so could be signs of evil?

Question 27

What do they mean by "the sound of its bright syllables"

Answer 27

The narrator's love interest's name- also quite poetic (she is a poet and so was Jackie Kay, presuming it is about Kay)

Question 28

What does "Like a charm" and "like a spell" have connotations of

Answer 28

Magic; witchcraft; snakes. Also that she is having something done to her and she is not in control and is not enjoying it.

Question 29

Why is "Falling in love" powerful

Answer 29

Acts like a prompt to speaker giving a speech- announces following stanza It is short Highlights the importance

Question 30

What does the oxymoron "glamorous hell" show

Answer 30

She has a torn vision on lovee

Question 31

What does "parched heart" show

Answer 31

The heart is thirsty, longing for something it can't have. It is dramatic and has an up and down feeling of love like love is a rollercoaster

Question 32

Why is the simile "like a tiger ready to kill" impactful

Answer 32

Danger strong powerful emotions that love makes them feel

Question 33

Give 3 examples of dark undertones in stanza 2

Answer 33

"kill"; "flame's"; "fierce".

Question 34

What word is repeated twice in the last line of stanza 2

Answer 34

"life"

Question 35

What word contrasts with the third line of stanza 2

Answer 35

"beautiful"

Question 36

What does "strolled in" show

Answer 36

Creates an imagine of someone nonchalant and arrogant

Question 37

What does the verb "hid" show in the first line of stanza 3

Answer 37

Tried to avoid falling in love- perhaps scared (from a previous bad experience of it)

Question 38

What does the premodifying adjective "ordinary" show

Answer 38

Life was boring before and mundane

Question 39

What line contrasts with the dramatic images in the poem

Answer 39

"I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine, in my camouflage rooms."

Question 40

What does camouflage rooms imply

Answer 40

She is hiding in their house- she is introverted and unsociable

Question 41

What does sprawled imply

Answer 41

Not dynamic- shows why the narrator has fallen so hard for them

Question 42

Wat does staring back from anyone's face imply

Answer 42

A level of obsession- so consumed by emotions that they see their lovers' face everywhere

Question 43

Give three examples of nature in stanza 3

Answer 43

Cloud; earth-struck; moon

Question 44

What connotations does gapes have

Answer 44

Subtle sexual connotations often associated with an ill fitting blouse. It is an example of a provocative piece of language use

Question 45

What is seeing a face in a random object called- "from the shape of a cloud"

Answer 45

Pareidolia

Question 46

Give an example of bedroom lexis/ lexical field in the last stanza (the couplet)

Answer 46

lexis: "bedroom"; "bed"; lexical field: "dream"; "curtains"

Question 47

What does the last stanza do

Answer 47

Brings poem to current/ present tense and has a sense of immediacy Goes from describing emotions to describing actions like a story- from intellectu to re

Question 48

What does "There you are " show

Answer 48

Having their lover infront of them reminds them of their blessing

Question 49

Why is like a gift powerful

Answer 49

Sexual Contrasts from describing them to be like a curse Unwrap a gift