Question

The house roofs seemed to heave and sway meaning from the poem The Patriot

Answer 1

The stanza ‘house-roofs seemed to heave and sway’ describes that the setting is cramped with houses.

This is our first signs of the poem being based in a town where people are living in poverty.

This was common in the Victorian times which introduces a time to this poem too unlike a lot of Auden’s poems such as O What Is That Sound.

Answer 2

Answer:The sentence above is a personofication

Explanation:

The poet is giving a living attribute to the house.