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Question 1

Title analysis

Answer 1

explores the superficial attraction within initial relationships

Question 2

what are the two voices explored in this poem

Answer 2

1) the desire to engage with the superficial attraction - the power of her beauty

2) desire to avoid meaningful relationships

Question 3

latest face

Answer 3

impersonal language, degrading

Question 4

so effortless

Answer 4

the ease at which the initial relationship is established between them

Question 5

beauty had no home till then
precious vagrant

Answer 5

oxymoron - her beauty had no value until he recognised it

Question 6

do not turn again

Answer 6

imperatives - he has ownership

Question 7

enj in // on a useless level

Answer 7

emphatic of how superficial attraction is meaningless

Question 8

real untidy air

Answer 8

metaphor - presents meaningful relationships as complicated - superficial relationships are meaningless but he doesn’t want a meaningful one either

link to poet Maudit

Question 9

bargains, suffering, and love

Answer 9

tricolon - relationships are burdensome and full of compromise - link to No Road

Question 10

always planned salute

AO3 link

Answer 10

he sees relationships as conformist

A03 - marriage boom - he never marries

Question 11

lies grow dark

Answer 11

dark imagery - relationships are deceptive

Question 12

will the statue of your beauty walk?

Answer 12

the power of her beauty - he is too infatuated with her beauty he will have to chase behind her

Question 13

must I wade behind it

Answer 13

the relationship is a burden

Question 14

is your power actual

Answer 14

if he avoids being drawn in by the superficial attraction he can avoid the relationship and then she has no real power over him

Question 15

duck and run
leap from the sun
mask

Answer 15

semantic field of avoidance - desire to avoid relationships

Question 16

structural comments

Answer 16

ABA CBC initial rhyme scheme - rigid structure to mimic the restriction of relationships
then moves to half rhyme then no set rhyme scheme - mimics the breakdown of the relationship and his avoidance