North-West

Question 1

What is North-West reference to?

Answer 1

• Liverpool.

Question 2

Dedicated to?

Answer 2

• Sonnet.
• Ex husband, Adrian Henri- died in 2000.

Question 3

How does poem start, similar to “Wish”?

Answer 3

• Conjunction: “however.”

Question 4

Form of poem.
Significance.

Answer 4

• Full rhyme at times: completion of their relationship IN THE PAST.
• Sonnet: love poem, lament on their past relationship.
• Half rhyme: “yeah”, “air”–> feelings of incompletion after his death.

Question 5

Cross-reference to “Sub.”

Answer 5

• “yeah, yeah, yeah.”

Question 6

Significance of “ferry grives down pier head.”

Answer 6

• Extending her grief, for losing lover, to the environment around her.
• Reference to Liverpool mersee.

Question 7

Bird motif throughout.

Answer 7

• “silvery bird.”

Question 8

“unborn children, ghosts.”

Answer 8

• Showing possibilities of relationship.

Question 9

“City drifs out of reach.”

Answer 9

• Metaphor for youth/ love drifting away in death.
• Passive movement: didn’t mean to break up, just naturally happened.

Question 10

Overall message.

Answer 10

• Nostalgia of relationships.
• Liverpool defines THEIR relationship.

Question 11

Nostaglia Liverpool induces in Speaker.

Answer 11

• “the place no map or heritage site can reveal.”

Question 12

Collective descriptions throughout.

Answer 12

• “we.”
• Unity of relationship.

Question 13

Sig:

” rented rooms”, “hidden streets.”

Answer 13

• Potential hints of affair?

Question 14

Sig.

“tourist boom.”

Answer 14

• Liverpool becoming city of culture in 2000’s+ tourist destination.
• For pair, place = more personal.