My homework is to explicate a poem.

Whenever approached by some unctuous bell captain as to my reason for occupying a chair for such a long time, I would reply in an all-purpose foreign accent (part Bela Lugosi, part Charlie Chan) Merry Chreestmas. America it is a wonderfool country, and then they generally left me alone.

The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether.

That done, you heat soya milk with oil and several flakes of agar-agar – a tasteless vegan alternative to gelatine – which dissolve into the liquid over 10 minutes, except they don’t, not really.