National Trust (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards

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National Trust
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Century 'National Trust' was written

21st century

Number of stanzas in 'National Trust'

Six stanzas

Tony Harrison's birthplace

Leeds

Castleton in the poem

Village in Derbyshire with bottomless pits

Towanroath in the poem

Former tin mine in Cornwall, now National Trust site

Poetic form of 'National Trust'

Free verse

Bottomless pit as extended metaphor

Depths of social injustice & historical complexity

4 adjectives describing convict after pit

Flayed, grey, mad, dumb

Cornish phrase ending poem

Mes den hep tavas a-gollas y dyr

Translation of Cornish phrase

the tongueless man gets his land took

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