Key Quotations

Question 1

COTLB

Into the..

Answer 1

Into the jaws of death,/ into the mouth of hell.’

Question 2

COTLB

“Then they..”

Answer 2

Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred.’

Question 3

COTLB

“Honour the…”

Answer 3

Honour the light brigade,/ noble six hundred

Question 4

EXPOSURE

“But..”

Answer 4

“But nothing happens”

Question 5

EXPOSURE

“Sudden successive..”

Answer 5

“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

Question 6

EXPOSURE

“Merciless iced..”

Answer 6

Merciless iced east winds that knife us

Question 7

EXPOSURE

Flickering

Answer 7

Flickering gunnery rumbles

Rhythm and meter
Synaesthasia mixing uo senses

Question 8

REMAINS

But i blink

Answer 8

But i blink// and he bursts again […] Sleep […]/ Dream[…]

Question 9

REMAINS

Tosses his

Answer 9

Tosses his guts back into his body

Question 10

REMAINS

And the drink

Answer 10

And the drink and the drugs wont flush him out

Question 11

POPPIES

My stomach

Answer 11

My stomach busy /making tucks, darts, pleats

Question 12

POPPIES

Released a

Answer 12

Released a song bird from its cage

Question 13

POPPIES

I listened

Answer 13

I listened, hoping to hear/ your playground voice

Question 14

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Spools of

Answer 14

Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Question 15

WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Home again […]

Answer 15

Home again […] to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in the nightmare heat.

Question 16

What are the names of carol ann duffys war photographer friends

Answer 16

Don McCullin and Phillip Jones Griffiths

Question 17

How is a poet and war photographer similar

Answer 17

Both create a representation of what life looks like to them that other people then explore

Question 18

What is the theme of war photographer

Answer 18

Impossibility of presenting the horrors of war and conflict

Link to bayonet charge

Question 19

What is the structure of war photographer

Answer 19

4 stanza
6 lines per stanza
ABBCDD rhyme scheme

Question 20

What is the effect of ‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh’

Answer 20

Plosives -quick fire, gun like pace

Caesura- breaks the peace. Makes you think about individual places

Question 21

What is the effect of the structure of war photographer

Answer 21

JUXTAPOSITION
War photographers job(neat and tightly ordered) juxtaposes to chaos of war
War photographers efforts are futile. Each stanza is the same and the same old thing keeps happens

Question 22

What is another structural feature of war photographer

Answer 22

Cyclical structure
Starts and ends with photographer returning from trip

Ends where it starts emphasising futility

Question 23

What is the effect of the last line ‘he earns his living and they do not care’

Answer 23

Ambiguous- who are they?

Us as a reader of the poem?

Question 24

What is the effect of the language in war photographer

Answer 24

Filled with vivid imagery just like the photographs

Question 25

What is the effect of the full stops around 'rural england'

Answer 25

Seperates england from war zone

Question 26

What are the interpretations of 'a half-formed ghost'

Answer 26

Half a memory | An injured man

Question 27

Religious imagery in war photographer

Answer 27

Dark room and red room- red and dark room both have connotations to hell. Juxtaposition to church All flesh is grass- biblical psalm fragility of life Ordered rows- war graves?

Question 28

What is the word for how remians starts

Answer 28

Medias res

Question 29

Meaning of remains

Answer 29

Someones body after death Soldier who has been used in the machine of war and there is nothing useful left of him Metaphorically, something of him dies

Question 30

Why does remain use colloquial language

Answer 30

It is an everyday event for the soldiers

Question 31

Why does simon armitage repeat probably armed, possibly not

Answer 31

Cyclical structure Taken back to start Suggests that terror is inescapable

Question 32

Why does remains have enjambement between the second and third stanza

Answer 32

Whole stanza breaks Causes reader to stop Slows motion- moment that changed his life

Question 33

Why does remian use the verb flush

Answer 33

Flush out a cold- cleanse | Suggests the soldier is unclean

Question 34

Why does remains use "sun stunned, sand-smothered land"

Answer 34

Syballance | Causes us to stop and focus. Sun and sand are positive juxtaposed to stunned and smothered