Wants

Question 1

What are the two ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. Things stopping him from being alone
2. Lack of freedom he holds

Question 2

1 - ‘Beyond all this, the wish to be __’

Answer 2

alone - repeptition = restriction from his desire to be free from societal expectations

Question 3

1 - ‘However the sky grows dark with ____’

Answer 3

invitation-cards - pathetic fallacy = avoid family + loads of invite - refuses to go

Question 4

1 - ‘However we follow the printed directions of __’

Answer 4

sex - mechanical + everyone does the same thing

Question 5

2 - ‘artful __ of the calander’

Answer 5

tensions - contrived - avoids ritualised events + exspectations

Question 6

2 - ‘costly __’

Answer 6

aversions - sugests we don’t live fully + crtiticises society for not wanting to confront death

Question 7

2 - ‘Desire for __ runs’

Answer 7

ablivion - desires death/wants nothing