IGCSE World Literature Poetry: Time by Allen Curnow

The form of Allen Curnow's poem is :

• Free Verse

• Rhyming Triplets

• Villanelle

• Sonnet

What abstract idea is personified throughout this poem?

• Clocks

• Death

• Love

• Time

Critics have suggested that the I of the poem is time personified as an arrogant king. How might we refer to this word in essay?

• The pronoun I

• The article I

• The Noun I

• The preposition I

Which word below might also be used to describe time in the poem as being all present and all seeing?

• Optimitisic

• Omniscient

• Optical

• Omnibus

Words such as pines, lupins and magpies are examples of

• Imagery related to love

• Imagery related to death

• Imagery related to time

• Imagery related to nature

Which of these is not likely to be a theme of the poem?

• Time cannot be defined by humanity

• Time cannot be controlled

• Time is not a real force

• Time is not measurable

Which word below might best describe the imagery in the third stanza? (See image)

• Mundane

• Extraordinary

• Natural

• Melancholic

Which of these examples does not use a type of alliteration?

• I am the recurrent music the children hear

• I am the place in the park where the lovers were seen

• I am father, farm and friend

• More than your conscious carrier

What type of imagery or allusions are used in the line "I am, you have heard it, the Beginning and the End"?

• Buddhist

• Scientific

• Greek mythology

• Biblical

Where is there a break in the structure of the poem?

• After the first stanza

• After the third stanza

• After the fourth stanza

• Before the last stanza