Poems

Question 1

Colossal wreck

Answer 1

Ozymandias
-Statue is kings attempt to avoid death and cement him self in history-irony
-Stripped of its power yet desert remains endless, power of nature

Question 2

King of kings

Answer 2

Ozymandias
-Pride and arrogance lead him to perceive himself this way
-Sees himself as omnipotent
-Criticises leaders on their ideas of themselves and ability to rule

Question 3

Sneer of cold command

Answer 3

Ozymandias
-Mocking smile. Malicious, cruelty, heartless
-Present kings arrogance, confidence and sense of superiority

Question 4

Look on my works ye mighty and despair!

Answer 4

Ozymandias
-Look, Imperative verb, valued his power, arrogance and control
-Commands reader to admire his state
-propaganda through intimidation

Question 5

His sweat heavy

Answer 5

Bayonet charge
-metaphor, physical impact of soldiers fear

Question 6

Bullets smacking the belly

Answer 6

Bayonet charge
-metaphor, creates tense and violent atmosphere
-alludes to someone being winded+unable to breathe

Question 7

King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

Answer 7

Bayonet charge
-solider completely abandoned his previously upheld values and motivation to fight

Question 8

Dem tell me

Answer 8

Checking out me history
Angry tone
Repetition, creates accusatory tone

Question 9

Bandage up me eye

Answer 9

Checking out me history
Injury like connotations imply speaker feels he’s been hurt by sheltered upbringing

Question 10

Blind me to me own identity

Answer 10

Checking out me history
Violent metaphor shows cruelty of colonialism
-deliberate nature of abuse of power

Question 11

Dem, de, bout

Answer 11

Checking out me history
-non phonetic spelling
-shows speaker resisting traditions of eng Lang+ restrictions of colonial role

Question 12

Tosses his guts back into his body

Answer 12

Remains
Connotes lack of care and respect, treated like an object, the norm
Conflict causes devaluation of human life

Question 13

His bloody life in my bloody hands

Answer 13

Remains
Adjective/pun as could be describing gruesome nature of his death or slang/curse
Later use of word suggest this event broke his life by having cursed him, suggest he regrets, killing him

Question 14

Blood shadow

Answer 14

Remains
-Haunted by memory
-No way to escape
-Foreshadows, it will haunt him
-Death stains a persons conscience and memory, just as it stains the street

Question 15

Possibly armed possibly not

Answer 15

Remains
-Repetitions emphasise his worry and guilt
-Trying to reassure himself what he did was justified, but this is the doubt in his mind that’s bothering him

Question 16

A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

Answer 16

Kamikaze
Most powerful character
First comma Encourages us to stop+think about it.
Creates threatening, and tense powerful image
Despite best efforts of the pilot, the tunafish is the powerful one

Question 17

Figure of eight

Answer 17

Kamikaze
Nature is infinite
Nature, more powerful than mankind
War+honour will be forgotten, but nature will remain
Infinity symbol

Question 18

To live as though he had never returned

Answer 18

Kamikaze
By living, he traded this for being forgotten + ignored
Suggest father physically survived, but dead to the community+society
Patriotism causes family to abandon him

Question 19

Marks of weakness, marks of woe

Answer 19

London
Breaks iambic tetrameter
Could reflect how if people rise up against institutions of power, they could break free from societal restraint

Question 20

Marriage hearse

Answer 20

London
-juxtaposition
-contrast, connotations of new beginnings+joy of weddings with end of life+grief
-marriage takes all rights away
-Blake felt marriage an abuse of power, giving men opps to abuse power over their lives

Question 21

Mind forged manacles

Answer 21

London
Slavery+lack of freedom
Enslaved by authorities+own mind+accepting injustice
Fears prevent change
Internal oppression+weakness
Culmination of suffering experienced