Coming

Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Arrival of spring
2. Child witnessing adults making peace

Question 2

1 - ‘Light, __ and yellow’

Answer 2

chill - tricolon/natural/light imagery = cleansing

Question 3

1 - __, the __ foreheads of houses’

Answer 3

bathes…serene - perconification = baptism/purification

Question 4

1 - ‘A thrush sings, __’

Answer 4

Laurel - heralding the spring + celebrating + sharing the excitement/universal experience

Question 5

2 - ‘It will be __ soon, it will be __ soon’

Answer 5

spring - anaphoric repetition + monosyllabic = simple childlike excitment

Question 6

2 - ‘Feel like a __’

Answer 6

child - similie = sense of uncertainty + where you gain reassurence

Question 7

2 - ‘nothing’ + ‘__’

Answer 7

unusual - negator = not knowing anything + accept it