P+C

Question 1

“Shatterd visage”- Ozymandias

Answer 1

Even a powerful human can’t control the damaging effects of time

Question 2

“King of kings”- Ozymandias

Answer 2

Biblical reference to Timothy 6:15 criticising the church and the power of the church will crumble like the statue of Ozymandias

Question 3

“Look on my works, ye mighty + despair”- Ozymandias

Answer 3

Irony is Ozymandias tells others to despair his statue expecting it to be immortal
Shelley uses this to show how even the greatest human achievements are eroded by nature and time especially tyrannical power

Question 4

What is significant about form and structure in Ozymandias?

Answer 4

Form- sonnet that doesn’t rhyme reflecting how human power and structure can be destroyed, Petrarchan sonnet as he loves himself
Structure- narrator builds up an image of the statue by focusing on different parts of it ending by describing enormous desert

Question 5

“My gift of a 900-year-old name”- MLD

Answer 5

Possessive and arrogant, proud of his family and the Duke and the Duchess title

Question 6

“And I chose never to stoop”-MLD

Answer 6

Pride as he thinks he’s better than his wife
Believes she doesn’t need to be reminded on how to behave

Question 7

“Notice Neptune though taming a seahorse thought a rarity”- MLD

Answer 7

Returns to the subject of his art collection, emphasising power and wealth the story is a subtle warning to visitors on how to behave

Question 8

What is significant about the form in My last Duchess?

Answer 8

Form- dramatic monologue written in iambic pentameter reinforces of impression that the Duke is in conversation with his visitor but the rhyming couples show the Jukes desire for control but enjambment suggests he gets carried away

Question 9

What is significant about the form and structure in exposure?

Answer 9

Form- first person plural shows how experience was shared with soldiers across war regular rhyme scheme reflects the monotonous nature of the men’s experience half rhymes which is jagged much like the men’s experience and faded energy, each stanza ends with a half line showing lack of hope
Structure- eight stanzas with no real progression reflects the war

Question 10

“Ranks on shivering ranks of grey”- Exposure

Answer 10

No colour battlefield is cold and lifeless ,grey also the colour of German uniform describing nature enemy

Question 11

“Crusted dark jewels” - Exposure

Answer 11

Fires offer them no warmth they look like jewels which are precious but cold

Question 12

“Like a dull rumour of some other war”- Exposure

Answer 12

Biblical reference to Matthew 24:6, where Jesus tells us the end of the world saying “you’ll hear of war and rumours of wars”

Question 13

What is a significance of form in charge of the light brigade?

Answer 13

Form- regular relentless rhythm makes it sound like the cavalry and the chaos of war however the occasional unrhymed lines represent the horses stumbling and the soldiers falling

Question 14

“Sabre stroke shattered + sunderd”- Charge of the light Brigade

Answer 14

Vicious sibilance shows the graphic battle

Question 15

“Jaws of death, mouth of hell” charge of the light brigade

Answer 15

Personifies death and hell as a monster, the soldiers can’t escape from

Question 16

“Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them” - charge of the light brigade

Answer 16

Repetition reflects gunfire , the horses hoofs and how the soldiers are trapped

Question 17

What is the significance of form in the prelude?

Answer 17

Use of blank verse and dynamic pentameter makes it sound serious and important and regular rhythm makes it sound like natural speech

Question 18

“Elfin pinnance” -the prelude

Answer 18

metaphor of fairy boat makes the scene sound magical but noun elf has connotations to something cheeky and lustful meaning humans take advantage and are lustful of nature

Question 19

“The horizons bound, a huge peak, black + huge”- The Prelude

Answer 19

Threatening language shows nature getting its revenge on the thief

Question 20

“Troubled pleasure”- The Prelude

Answer 20

Oxymoron hints to the narrators guilt

Question 21

What is significant about the form in War photographer?

Answer 21

Four equal stanzas to echo the care that the photographer takes over his work.use of enjambment reflects gradual revealing of a photo

Question 22

“Of running children in a nightmare heat”- War Photographer

Answer 22

Reference to Vietnamese war photo shows importance of the photographers work as that photo is often credited to ending the war

Question 23

“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass” - War photographer

Answer 23

Close sound breaks the soft mood like gunfire , reference to quote from Isaiah 40:6 saying human life is temporary

Question 24

“Blood stained into foreign dust”- war photographer

Answer 24

Reminder it happened somewhere else. “Stained” hints the lasting impacts of war

Question 25

What is significant about the form and structure in storm on the island?

Answer 25

Form- blank verse makes the poem sound like a conversation the poem is all in one stanza which makes it seem compact like the houses and a continuous storm Structure- Monosyllabic phrase and caesura reflects last calm moments before the storm

Question 26

“Can raise a tragic chorus”- Storm on the island

Answer 26

Having no trees to act as a chorus means islanders have to face the storm alone

Question 27

“Spits like a tame cat”- Storm on the island

Answer 27

Oxymoron shows the feelings of fear and safety as this is the turning point where the storm gets nasty

Question 28

“We build our houses squat”- Storm on the island

Answer 28

False sense of security of the houses on the island

Question 29

What is significant about the form and structure in remains?

Answer 29

Form- final couplet both lines have the same meter which shows feelings of finality and guilt with which sticks with the soldier Structure- Volta at the fifth stanza that shows guilt change

Question 30

“His bloody life in my bloody hands”- Remains

Answer 30

Lady Macbeth reference to guilt

Question 31

“Probably armed, possibly not”- Remains

Answer 31

Doubt here contrasts with violence commencing and said twice to show PTSD

Question 32

“Some distinct, sun stunned, sand smothered land”- Remains

Answer 32

Sibilance slows the pace and shows the speakers lack of speakers clear thought

Question 33

What is the significance of the form in tissue?

Answer 33

Form- lack of regular rhyme and use of enjambment gives a poem, freedom reflecting the narrators desire for freedom. Short stanzas mean poem is built in layers like human life

Question 34

“Might fly our lives like paper kites”- Tissue

Answer 34

Simile showing the money controls our lives we are only fragile like paper kites though

Question 35

“Maps too”- Tissue

Answer 35

Shows how Man has segregated a natural world creating division rather than freedom

Question 36

“Daylight breaks through capitals and monoliths”- Tissue

Answer 36

Shows that nature always defeats mankind capitals and monoliths represents human and governmental power

Question 37

What is significant about the form in bayonet charge

Answer 37

Enjambment, caesura and lines of uneven length mirrors of a soldier struggle as he runs through the mud

Question 38

“His terror touchy dynamite”- Bayonet Charge

Answer 38

Explosive violence

Question 39

“Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”- Bayonet Charge

Answer 39

Rabbit in the headlights wants to run away but dazzled

Question 40

“Like molten iron from the centre of his chest”- Bayonet Charge

Answer 40

Patriotism has turned into fear has turned into and pain. His heroic ideals have been replaced by painful reality.

Question 41

What is the significance of the form in kamikaze?

Answer 41

Third person speech shows the absence of the pilot which shows the cut-off from society also shows distance between him and his daughter

Question 42

“Full of powerful incantations”- Kamikaze

Answer 42

Japanese propaganda received by kanikazes

Question 43

“ a tuna, the dark Prince muscular and dangerous”- Kamikaze

Answer 43

Remind us of readers for danger of nature shows how significant the power of nature is to the kamikaze pilot

Question 44

“Flashing silver”- Kamikaze

Answer 44

Ironic reference to samurai swords as a pilot is turning away from conflict

Question 45

What is significant about the form in London?

Answer 45

Unbroken ABAB rhyme scheme shows relentless misery of the city and regular rhyme reflecting the sound of his feet as he trudges around

Question 46

“Mind forged manacles”- London

Answer 46

People are trapped in every way even mentally

Question 47

“Runs in blood down palace walls”- London

Answer 47

Reference to the French revolution people in the palace are protected whilst ordinary people suffer

Question 48

“Blackning church”- London

Answer 48

Churches corrupt and grime visual on London after Industrial Revolution

Question 49

What is the significance of form and structure in checking out me history?

Answer 49

Form- mixture of stanza forms to suggest his breaking the language rules he’s been taught Structure- alternate between historical figures emphasise the difference in them

Question 50

“Bandage up me eye”- Checking out me history

Answer 50

Harold Godwinson reference deliberate attempt to hide history

Question 51

“Hopeful stream to freedom river” - Checking out me history

Answer 51

Connects nanny maroon to water spiritual person who is free and full of hope has finally got liberty

Question 52

“De cow who jump over de moon”- Checking out me history

Answer 52

Users nursery rhymes to make British history sound trivial rhyme in this stanza emphasises silly white history

Question 53

What is the significance of the form and structure in the emigres?

Answer 53

Form- enjambment but end stopping in the final stanza reflecting the speaker feeling confined in her new city Structure- each stanza ends in sunlight showing how the narrator sees a city in a positive way

Question 54

“Bright, filled paperweight”- The Emigree

Answer 54

Metaphor shows narrators memories are bright but also solid and fixed

Question 55

“Time rolls its tanks”- The emigree

Answer 55

Time personified as enemy can’t affect the speakers memories

Question 56

“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”- The Emigree

Answer 56

Negative “branded “juxtapose with a positive “impression of sunlight” “branded” also suggests permanence in her view it can’t change

Question 57

What is significant about the form in poppies?

Answer 57

First person narrative means for reader gets firsthand impression of the mother’s emotions. Long sentences and enjambment gives the impression about the narrator is absorbed in her own thoughts whilst caesurae show how she tries to hold her emotions together

Question 58

“Rounded up many white cat hairs”- Poppies

Answer 58

Suggesting capture by the enemy White being the colour of surrender

Question 59

“Blackthorns”- Poppies

Answer 59

Biblical allusion of the martyr of Jesus Christ

Question 60

“Spasms of paper red”

Answer 60

Violent verb foreshadows what will happen to her son? Red symbolising blood?