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Question 1

When was Tom Hardy alive?

Answer 1

1840-1928

Question 2

Where did Tom Hardy grow up?

Answer 2

In a poor household in Dorset.

Question 3

What did he reject as a child?

Answer 3

Religion and grow up believing in science.

Question 4

What does “we stood by a pond” mean

Answer 4

This starts off the poem and sets up the play, a pond is still water, which represents that nothing is happening in their relationship.

Question 5

What does “deadest thing” mean.

Answer 5

It is an oxymoron which symbolises two people in a relationship, couple should not be together.

Question 6

What type of structure is their?

Answer 6

A very regular structure with a normal rhyme scheme.