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    Elizabeth Bishop's poem "I Am in Need of Music" expresses her deep appreciation for the healing and restorative power of music. She uses vivid language to describe music as "deep, clear, and liquid-slow" melody that can flow over her fingertips and lips "like water" and transport her to "the subaqueous stillness of the sea." The last line suggests music allows one to find rest through "rhythm and sleep." Bishop sees music as a "magic" that can calm the troubled mind and soul.

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    Elizabeth Bishop's poem "I Am in Need of Music" expresses her deep appreciation for the healing and restorative power of music. She uses vivid language to describe music as "deep, clear, and liquid-slow" melody that can flow over her fingertips and lips "like water" and transport her to "the subaqueous stillness of the sea." The last line suggests music allows one to find rest through "rhythm and sleep." Bishop sees music as a "magic" that can calm the troubled mind and soul.

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    Elizabeth Bishop's poem "I Am in Need of Music" expresses her deep appreciation for the healing and restorative power of music. She uses vivid language to describe music as "deep, clear, and liquid-slow" melody that can flow over her fingertips and lips "like water" and transport her to "the subaqueous stillness of the sea." The last line suggests music allows one to find rest through "rhythm and sleep." Bishop sees music as a "magic" that can calm the troubled mind and soul.

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    Lower School Scholarship Exam 2016

    ENGLISH

    11+

    1 Hour

    Name:

    School:

    Date:

    Instructions to Candidates:

     Answer all parts of Question 1, and Question 2, which is on page 10; spending 30 minutes
    on each.
     Total marks for this exam = 100
    QUESTION 1

    Spend 10 minutes reading this poem carefully and then answer the questions that
    follow.

    I Am In Need of Music
    I am in need of music that would flow
    Over my fretful*, feeling fingertips,
    Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
    With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
    Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
    Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
    A song to fall like water on my head,
    And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!

    There is a magic made by melody:


    A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
    Heart, that sinks through fading colours deep
    To the subaqueous** stillness of the sea,
    And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
    Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.

    Elizabeth Bishop

    *fretful: worried and sad

    ** Subaqueous: underwater

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    A) i) This is a poem about the power of music. Find three words Elizabeth Bishop
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    B) What is Elizabeth Bishop’s attitude towards music in the poem? Use examples
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    C) How does Elizabeth Bishop use poetic devices in the poem to show her attitude
    towards music? Use examples from the poem and your knowledge of poetic
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    Question 2
    Write a description of either a particular piece of music or type of sound. It can be
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