Poetry

Question 1

“ 2 vast and trunkless legs of stone “

Answer 1

Ozymandias

Question 2

“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”

Answer 2

Ozymandias

Question 3

“Sneer of cold command”

Answer 3

Ozymandias

Question 4

“King of Kings”

Answer 4

Ozymandias

Question 5

“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”

Answer 5

Ozymandias

Question 6

“I wander through each chartered street”

Answer 6

London

Question 7

“marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Answer 7

London

Question 8

“The mind-forged manacles I hear”

Answer 8

London

Question 9

“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”

Answer 9

London

Question 10

“plagues the marriage hearse”

Answer 10

London

Question 11

“One summer evening (led by her)”

Answer 11

Extract from The Prelude

Question 12

“troubled pleasure”

Answer 12

Extract from The Prelude

Question 13

“a huge peak, black and huge”

Answer 13

Extract from The Prelude

Question 14

“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”

Answer 14

Extract from The Prelude

Question 15

“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”

Answer 15

Extract from The Prelude

Question 16

“My last duchess”

Answer 16

My Last Duchess

Question 17

“half-flush that dies along her throat”

Answer 17

My Last Duchess

Question 18

“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”

Answer 18

My Last Duchess

Question 19

“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”

Answer 19

My Last Duchess

Question 20

“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse”

Answer 20

My Last Duchess

Question 21

“valley of death”

Answer 21

COLB

Question 22

“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs to do and die”

Answer 22

COLB

Question 23

“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”

Answer 23

COLB

Question 24

“someone had blunder’d”

Answer 24

COLB

Question 25

“noble 600”

Answer 25

COLB

Question 26

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”

Answer 26

Exposure

Question 27

“But nothing happens”

Answer 27

Exposure

Question 28

“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”

Answer 28

Exposure

Question 29

“we turn back to our dying”

Answer 29

Exposure

Question 30

“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”

Answer 30

Exposure

Question 31

“We are bombarded by the empty air”

Answer 31

Storm on the Island

Question 32

“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”

Answer 32

Storm on the Island

Question 33

“exploding comfortably”

Answer 33

Storm on the Island

Question 34

“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”

Answer 34

Storm on the Island

Question 35

“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in threshing circle”

Answer 35

Bayonet Charge

Question 36

“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

Answer 36

Bayonet Charge

Question 37

“patriotic tear”

Answer 37

Bayonet Charge

Question 38

“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“

Answer 38

Bayonet Charge

Question 39

“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”

Answer 39

Bayonet Charge

Question 40

“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

Answer 40

Remains

Question 41

“tosses his guts back into his body”

Answer 41

Remains

Question 42

“rips through his life”

Answer 42

Remains

Question 43

“probably armed, possibly not”

Answer 43

Remains

Question 44

“On another occasion”

Answer 44

Remains

Question 45

“tucks, darts, pleats”

Answer 45

Poppies

Question 46

“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”

Answer 46

Poppies

Question 47

“leaned against it like a wishbone”

Answer 47

Poppies

Question 48

“released a song bird from its cage”

Answer 48

Poppies

Question 49

“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”

Answer 49

Poppies