Poems

Question 1

Ozymandias- power themes

Answer 1

Human power is temporary
Power of time
Power of nature
Power of art
Tyrannical power (indirect criticism of monarchy)
Abuse of power

Question 2

Ozymandias quotes

Answer 2

‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies’
‘sneer of cold command’
‘its sculptor well those passions read’
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings’
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains’ (immediate placement)
Round the decay Of that colossal wreck

Question 3

London quotes

Answer 3

Chartered street
Chartered thames
'In every cry of every man'
'In every infant's cry of fear'
'The mind-forged manacles I hear'
'Every black'ning church appalls'
'Runs in blood down palace walls'
'How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant' tear'
'Blights with plagues the marriage hearse'

Question 4

London power themes

Answer 4

Power of the monarchy
Abuse of power
Power of the church
Power of the rich
Mental power
Power of control
Power of suffering

Question 5

Extract from, the Prelude power themes

Answer 5

Power of nature
Power of maturity
Power of ignorance
Power of fear
Lack of power of humans

Question 6

Extract from ,the Prelude quotes

Answer 6

‘an act of stealth’
‘circles glittering idly in the moon’
‘went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘a huge peak, black and huge’
‘Upreared its head’
‘Towered up between me and the stars’
‘No familiar shapes, no pleasant images of trees, no colours of green fields’
‘Were a trouble to my dreams’ (the forms’

Question 7

My Last Duchess

Answer 7

‘the curtain I have drawn for you’
‘Half-flush that dies along her throat’ foreshadows
‘her looks went everywhere’
‘She had
‘A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad, ‘
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name’
‘I gave the commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.’ Immediate placement
Hus fair daughter’s self is ‘my object’

Question 8

My Last Duchess power ideas

Answer 8

Power of wealth
Power of memory
Power of jealousy
Mental power
Posthumous power/power after death
Power of murder limited

Question 9

The Charge of the Light Brigade quotes

Answer 9

'Rode the six hundred' like galloping, keeps moving forward, pace
'Into the jaws of Death'
'Into the mouth of Hell'
'the soldier knew
Some one had blundered'
'While horse and hero fell' brief focus, hovers over
'Theirs' not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die
Honour repeated
'Noble six hundred!'

Canon to the right of them, left, in fromt of them

Question 10

TCOTLB power themes

Answer 10

Power of rank
Lions ked by donkeys
Power of courage
Power of stupidity

Question 11

Exposure quotes

Answer 11

‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
‘Worried by silence’
‘mad gusts tugging on the wire
‘But nothing happens’ ends with this as well
‘What are we doing here? ‘
‘For love of God seems dying’
‘Not otherwise can kind fires burn’

Question 12

Exposure conflict themes

Answer 12

Futility of war
War leads to suffereing of aoldiers
Mental conflict and physical conflict, pointlessness

Question 13

SOTI quotes

Answer 13

‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’
‘So as you see’
‘You know what I mean’
But there are no trees, no natural shelter
‘You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
But no:’
‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘We just sit tight’
‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’

War vocab: blast exploding bombarded strafes
when it blows full
Blast
Pummels

Question 14

SOTI themes

Answer 14

Power of nature
Powerlessness of humans
Power of man undermined by nature (false sense of security’

Question 15

War photogrpaher

Answer 15

‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
‘a priest preparing to intone a Mass.’ compares himself
‘which did not tremble then though seem to now’
‘the blood stained into foreign dust.’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six’’
The reader’s eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.’
‘…they do not care’
Add the end ones

Question 16

War photograoher themes

Answer 16

Power of conflict
Power of photography
Power of media/editing

Question 17

The Émigrée quotes

Answer 17

memory is ‘sunlight-clear’
The worst news I receive of it ‘cannot break my original view’
‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants,
but I am left with an ‘impression of sunlight.’
‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here’
‘my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’

Question 18

The Emigree themes

Answer 18

Power of memory
Power of control
Power the mind
Power of denial

Question 19

Poppies quotes

Answer 19

‘smoothed down your shirt’s upturned collar’
‘steeled the softening of my face’
‘the world overflowing
like a treasure chest’
‘I went into yout bedroom, released a song bird from its cage’
‘The dove pulled freely against the sky’
‘hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’

Emjambment lack of comtrol

Question 20

Poppies themes

Answer 20

Power of hope
Power of war
Power of conflict
Power of love

Question 21

Bagonet Charge quotes

Answer 21

‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’
‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest’
‘Listening between his footfalls for the reason’
‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
Dropping like luxuries in yelling alarm’

Question 22

Bayonet charge themes

Answer 22

Mental power
Power of conflict
Power of fear
Futility of war
Power of rank

Question 23

Remains quotes

Answer 23

‘On another ocassion we get sent out’
‘Probably armed, possibly not’
Myself and somebody else and somebody else
are all of the same mind
‘I see every round as it rips through his life’
‘he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out’
One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body
‘Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry’ dehumanisation
‘End of story, except not really’
‘But I blink
(New stanza, completely seperate reality)
and he bursts again through the doors of the bank’
‘And the drinks and the drugs won’t flush him out’
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’

His blood-shadow stays on the street

dug in behind enemy lines

Question 24

Remains themes

Answer 24

Suffering
Mental conflict
Lack of care of soldiers
Trauma
Mental damage
Power of death
Power of guilt
Power of memory

Question 25

Tissue themes

Answer 25

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Question 26

Tissue quotes

Answer 26

``` 'Paper that lets the light shine theough' 'the Koran' link her religious beliefs 'who died where and how, on which sepia date' 'turned (above) transparent with attention' 'If buildings were paper' '.. see how easily they fall away from a sigh' Maps too, the sun shines through their borderlines' 'Fine slips from grocery shops... might fly our lives like paper kites' reinforces fragility, control, insignificance in grand scheme of things 'with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last' Ending: turned into your skin ```

Question 27

Tissue themes

Answer 27

Power of money Human constructs meaningless Power of nature Fragility of humans

Question 28

London structure

Answer 28

Quatrains ABABAB ENDLESS SUFFERING Control by gov

Question 29

Extract from the prelude structure

Answer 29

One long stanza Overwhelming, reflects how woodsworth overwhelmed as a child Add more

Question 30

Poppies structure

Answer 30

``` Varied stanza length Enjambment Free verse (Lack of control) Drmamtic monologue - heightens sense of being alone ```

Question 31

SOTI structure

Answer 31

Half ryhme at beginning end, storm inescapable Uncontrollabke nature Enjambment under constant attack - relentlessness of the storm

Question 32

Tissue structure

Answer 32

No rhyme Free verse Humans try to order everything futile

Question 33

Ozymandias structure

Answer 33

One short structure -d istances 'I met a traveller' .. who said ,myth forgotten -beginning 'sands stretch far away' -end Shortness of reign Sonnet Fourteen-line single stanza Iambic pentameter, but several variations e,g. 'Nothing beside remains'

Question 34

Exposure structure

Answer 34

Rhetorical question | Detatched from stanza, zooming out, reflection, bigger picture

Question 35

London structure and form

Answer 35

Divided into four stanzas (quatrains), with an ABAB rhyming scheme Gives it simple rhythm His last word summarises his views on the city First quatrain - what he can see 2nd -what he can hear Overaching pessimism remains present throughout

Question 36

Checking Out Me History Quotes

Answer 36

``` 'Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me' 'Bandage up me eye with me own history' 'dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat But Toussaint L'Overture no dem never tell me bout dat' 'But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity' ``` Repetition tired fustration

Question 37

Checking out me history structure

Answer 37

Uses physical seperation of stanzas and font styles to indicate the culture he's referencing British stuff has longer lines, tegular font, simolistic rhymes to signify lack of importance he associates Rejects European language and uses Carribean, Creole dialect and fluid verse without punctuation

Question 38

Kamikaze quotes

Answer 38

``` '(With a ) samurai sword,..., a shaven head' 'journey into history' 'little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea' 'grandfather's boat - safe to the shore' 'his mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed' 'we too learned to be slient, to live as though he had never returned, that this was no longer the father we loved.' 'he must have wondered which had been the better way to die(compares this current to death).' ```

Question 39

Kamikaze structure

Answer 39

Narrative poem Seven six-line stanzas Doesn't rhyme No regular rhytmic pattern, though most lines have three or four stresses Regular stamza structure Poem only composed of three sentences and contains only three full-tops Perhaps this reflects this story is told orally Forst stanza from cockpit long- overwhelming decision Second sentence -shift in time and speaker (daughter) until this point ghe story was re-told in third-person narrative, creating distancing effect, now more direct This sentence is surprise as we learn decision. As this is with time and speaker shift, infromation has more impact Final sentences reverts to third person and has the twist Each cahnge and shift has jarring and unsettling effect on reader and perhaps reflects turbulent, but repressed feelings of the daughter Enjambment

Question 40

Transformation of the boat in Extract

Answer 40

'A little boat' 'Elfin pinnace' Heaving through the water like a swan

Question 41

Emigree ending meaning

Answer 41

'my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.' Her live for the place endures, ends with a positive image

Question 42

War photographer steucture

Answer 42

``` Four stanzas each six lines Rhyme pattern Reflects his job Caesura - Rural England Internal rhyme tears and beers, quickens pace, speed that they dwell on it ```