Mother, Any Distance Flashcards
All 9 cards in this deck
Who wrote ‘Mother, Any Distance’, and in which collection?
Simon Armitage, in Book of Matches (1993).
Which role has Simon Armitage held since 2019?
Poet Laureate.
What are the speaker and his mother doing in ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
Measuring a house he is about to move into.
Which end of the tape does the mother hold in ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
The zero end, while the son climbs with the spool.
What object is the extended metaphor for the mother–son bond in ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
The tape measure.
What is the form of ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
A loose sonnet with an extra line (15 lines).
Which two one-word sentences in ‘Mother, Any Distance’ describe mother and son?
“Anchor. Kite.”
Where does the son climb to at the end of ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
The loft, to a hatch that opens on the sky.
What are the last words of ‘Mother, Any Distance’?
“to fall or fly”.