Human Experiences - Common Module

Harwood represents human experience as a journey from ____ to ____.

innocence; acceptance

Paragraph 1 theme and poems?

Fear and guilt end innocence; The Glass Jar and Father and Child

Paragraph 2 theme and poems?

Grief and nostalgia softened by love and memory; The Violets, Nightfall and At Mornington

Paragraph 3 theme and poem?

Maturity, independence and joy; A Valediction

"____ stood ready to bless" (Glass Jar): technique and emotion?

monstrance; religious allusion; his dependence and trust

"envenomed with his most ____" (Glass Jar): what does it show?

secret hate; the terror is his own, so he is both victim and threat

"hope fell headlong from its ____" (Glass Jar): allusion and emotion?

eagle height; Icarus; belief collapses, leaving him alone with despair

"____" (Father and Child): technique and emotion?

angel-mild; religious contradiction; defiance and a hunger for power hidden beneath obedience

"My first shot struck" (Father and Child): technique and effect?

caesura; power turns into consequence

"____" (Father and Child): what does it show?

owl-blind; her guilt, identifying her with her victim

"____" (Father and Child): the father's command and what it teaches?

end what you have begun; responsibility

Harwood presents memory as a ____: what does this mean?

palimpsest; a layered record where childhood stays visible beneath the adult self

"____?" (Violets): what emotion?

Where's the morning gone?; helpless loss, the child cannot grasp time

"Into my ____ we went" (Violets): allusion and effect?

father's house; biblical allusion; lifts the home into a paradise of security and love

"____" (Nightfall): what does it show?

stick-thin comforter; the roles have reversed; tender, protective love

"no words, no tears can ____" (Nightfall): emotion?

mend; a quiet grief that cannot be consoled

At Mornington: structure that returns her to her father's arms and a hollowed pumpkin?

circular structure; a calm, almost playful acceptance of death

"more than enough to ____" (At Mornington): emotion?

refresh us; gratitude shared with her friend

"inked in with ____ from adolescence" (A Valediction): technique and meaning?

aches; metaphor; reading as a record of earlier pain

The speaker recalls her old emotional intensity with what tone?

wry amusement

"meet halfway between ____" (A Valediction): what does it show?

sanctity and liberation; an open, curious mind testing freedom against fidelity

"Today I leave the book ____" (A Valediction): what is it?

unopened; the structural turn showing maturity and choice

"this farewell has left me ____" (A Valediction): emotion?

joyful; a confident, mature joy that surprises her

"good Doctor Donne, will you ____" (A Valediction): technique and effect?

attend; apostrophe and closing question holding affection and independence together

Conclusion: human experience is ____; fear, guilt and loss are felt ____, yet consoled by ____.

paradoxical; alone; memory, love and language