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Read stanza 1 (lines 1-3) in your textbook. (a) What range of homes does the speaker see in the city? (b) What does the closing line tell us about the couple? [3 marks]
Read the first two lines for the homes and the closing line for the couple.
Read stanza 2 (lines 4-6). What has the speaker lost, and why can he not go back? [2 marks]
Think about the difference between a place on a map and a place that you can enter.
In which stanza does the speaker dream of an immense building?
The dream comes just before the final stanza.
What does the committee advise the couple to do in stanza 5?
The cruelty of the stanza lies in the length of the delay.
Write an answer of about 200 words to the question: How does Auden use contrast and irony to make his poem a powerful protest?
Use three paragraphs: contrast, irony, then the effect of both together, and name stanza numbers throughout.
Set your own paper. Write three exam-style questions on stanza 3, worth 2, 4 and 6 marks, and give a mark scheme for each.
A mark scheme lists points, not full sentences, and gives one mark for each separate point.
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