Question

explore the ways in which smith creates vivid effects in this poem written near a port on a dark evening

Answer 1

Explanation:

This is a beautiful, dark poem about how the things that seem attractive in life can sometimes lead us astray. Smith cleverly uses the metaphor of seeing ship lights at sea to demonstrate how something can sometimes make brief sense to us, yet still turn out to be wrong in the long term. This poem is tailored towards GCSE and A Level students on CIE / Cambridge, WJEC / Eduqas, OCR, CCEA and AQA exam boards — but it’s useful for anyone trying to get to grips with the poem at any level.

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