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5 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
State the central theme of "Dockery and Son" in one sentence.
Think about what changes at line 32 and what stanza 5 asks.
Name two places where death is hinted at before it is named in line 48.
One concerns what the speaker wears, and the other concerns a man from his past.
What does the self-correction in line 32 lead the speaker to say?
Read lines 30 to 33 together.
What does the locked door chiefly symbolise?
Think about whose room it was.
Write an answer of about 250 words to this question: "The poem's central theme is not parenthood but the way assumptions shape our lives." Do you agree?
Decide where the poem's attention moves at line 32 and what it asks from there on.
Trace the theme of death through the poem, and explain why Larkin introduces it so quietly. Write about 200 words.
Look at lines 3, 17 and 18, 45 and 48, and ask what tone each uses.
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