Week 4 Questions ^_^

Robin Hyde, ‘In the Lane’, ‘The Last Ones’, ‘At the Beaches’

1. Horses occur in Robin Hyde’s poems ‘In the Lane’ and“The Last Ones’. Compare and contrast how these animals function in each of these poems.

2. What euphemisms and other indirect techniques does Hyde use in the ‘The Beaches IV’ to refer to the couple’s romantic activities and her own desire?

Dennis Glover, ‘The Magpies’, ‘extracts from ‘Sings Harry’

3. What is the rhyme schema of Dennis Glover’s‘Tom and Elizabeth’? (Represent as letters by stanza, i.e. ABBA, etc).

4. Based on your reading of ‘Tom and Elizabeth’ and the extract from ‘Sings Harry’, what common themes does Glover draw out of life on New Zealand farms?

Week 3 Questions ^_^

Worksheet 4: Short Story II/ Prose Extract

Witi Ihimaera: ‘The house with the Sugarbag Windows’

1. List adjectives and other linguistic features used to contrast the genteel dinner
party in the colonial house in Kelburn with the poverty-stricken house of the
narrator’s upbringing.

2. What similarities or differences are there between the depiction of race
relations in this story and Stead’s ‘A short history’?


C.K. Stead: ‘A short history of New Zealand’

1. This text divides into sections that relate to different layers of the narrative
(such as the narrator’s voice, the story within the story, the tapescript, etc).
Decide which layers each section of text relates to.

2. What is the ‘meta-fictional’ relationship between the writer of ‘A short history of New Zealand’ and the young writer in the text, and how does Stead use it
as a literary device?


Emily Perkins: ‘The Shared Experience’

1. In what sense is the title of this story ironic?

2. How would you characterise Perkins’ use of language? Illustrate with specific
examples.






Janet Frame: extract from An Angel at my Table

1. Identify five texts that Frame mentions having read during her time with Frank
Sargeson.

2. Identify at least passages in the text where Sargeson gives specific Frame
stylistic and related literary advice about her writing.

3. Underline three further examples of vivid imagery that Frame brings to
everyday objects or situations