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COMPREHENSION
QUESTIONS
Think about the poems you have chosen and answer the questions below for each poem.
Your answers should be written in full sentences and should be placed on the page next to a copy of the poem they are about.
I have included an example under the questions on this page.
1. Who is the speaker in the poem? Dorothy Hewett. Is it the poet or a created persona? Poet.
2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? The theme or Idea is to express the dark feeling of school uniforms and the broad idea is to get the point across about dark fires tangled hair and school teaches/ classes.
Why? Because in the poem it says numerous times about lady’s French teaching and school uniforms and passing tests so that’s why it seem that’s the idea.
3. Does the poem have a setting? Yes
If it does, what is it? “The dark fires shall burn in many rooms”
Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting
4. Does the poem feature a character? Not really, several actually. -Still girls in dark uniforms-
5. Still voices echoing as our voices echoed. – Voices echoed down the school halls as they walked down them and heard the teachers voices still echoing
Crouching in winter with their cold hands trembling. Ladies crouching in the corner hands trembling in the coldness.-voices
And the faded flumped-up form- describing a faded & flumped figure that up forms-.
6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem. NONE DESPLAYED>
7. What do you think the poem is about? School teachers and their uniforms and how cold and said school is.
What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Sad and cold. Why? Because she made it sound said and cold in the explanation’s and metaphors. <POEM BELOW>
The Dark Fires - Poem by Dorothy Hewett
The dark fires shall burn in many rooms;
will they sometimes miss me with my tangled hair--
still girls in dark uniforms
crouching in winter with their cold hands trembling,
still voices echoing as our voices echoed
and the faded frumped-up form
of a mistress teaching French?
Does she remember us or do we pass
only like dreams of dark figures,
some with different hair or deep voices,
or merely countless hats hanging on pegs,
countless columns of moving massed black legs?
Our minds are sprawled on unforbidden lawns,
our voices lie like queer leaves in the clipped grass,
as we believe so we shall pass.
Dorothy Hewett.
Think about the poems you have chosen and answer the questions below for each poem.
Your answers should be written in full sentences and should be placed on the page next to a copy of the poem they are about.
I have included an example under the questions on this page.
1. Who is the speaker in the poem? Dorothy Hewett. Is it the poet or a created persona? Poet.
2. What do you think is the theme, or broad idea, of the poem? The theme or Idea is to express the dark feeling of school uniforms and the broad idea is to get the point across about dark fires tangled hair and school teaches/ classes.
Why? Because in the poem it says numerous times about lady’s French teaching and school uniforms and passing tests so that’s why it seem that’s the idea.
3. Does the poem have a setting? Yes
If it does, what is it? “The dark fires shall burn in many rooms”
Quote a line or words from the poem that shows us the setting
4. Does the poem feature a character? Not really, several actually. -Still girls in dark uniforms-
5. Still voices echoing as our voices echoed. – Voices echoed down the school halls as they walked down them and heard the teachers voices still echoing
Crouching in winter with their cold hands trembling. Ladies crouching in the corner hands trembling in the coldness.-voices
And the faded flumped-up form- describing a faded & flumped figure that up forms-.
6. Describe some of the images shown in the poem. NONE DESPLAYED>
7. What do you think the poem is about? School teachers and their uniforms and how cold and said school is.
What do you think the poet's attitude towards the topic is? Sad and cold. Why? Because she made it sound said and cold in the explanation’s and metaphors. <POEM BELOW>
The Dark Fires - Poem by Dorothy Hewett
The dark fires shall burn in many rooms;
will they sometimes miss me with my tangled hair--
still girls in dark uniforms
crouching in winter with their cold hands trembling,
still voices echoing as our voices echoed
and the faded frumped-up form
of a mistress teaching French?
Does she remember us or do we pass
only like dreams of dark figures,
some with different hair or deep voices,
or merely countless hats hanging on pegs,
countless columns of moving massed black legs?
Our minds are sprawled on unforbidden lawns,
our voices lie like queer leaves in the clipped grass,
as we believe so we shall pass.
Dorothy Hewett.