Not Waving but Drowning

This poem has a

• First person narrator

• Third person narrator

• second person narrator

The poem consists of three stanzas with the following rhyme scheme

• abab

• abcb

• abba

Even though it is not obvious, there is direct speech in the poem

• True

• False

This poem is based on an actual event that the writer read about

• True

• False

Even though it is based on a true event, there is a metaphor. The metaphor is

• That people should learn to swim

• That people may appear happy but are actually struggling with life and their struggles are not identified

• That being hurt by someone feels like you are drowning

The tone of the poem is

• Tragic

• Whimsical

• Both

'I was much further out than you thought' and 'Oh, no no no it was too cold always' are examples of

• The deeper meaning of people silently struggling

• The unpredictable nature of the ocean

• The frustration felt by the person who drowned

Why did the writer repeat the sentence, 'still he lay moaning/still the dead one lay moaning'

• The writer wanted to emphasis that it took him a long time to die

• To highlight how people struggle to see others struggling through life

The poem consists of how many quatrains

• 3

• 6

• 9

The line, 'Poor chap, he'd always loved larking and now he's dead' Makes the spectators seems as if

• They are in shock

• They are being Insincere and patronising

• They are sad that he died