poetry

Question 1

checking out me history

Answer 1

“Bandage up me eye with me own history
“no dem never tell me bout dat”
``dem tell me’’

Question 2

london

Answer 2

in every cry of a man in every infant cry'' i wander through the charted streated where the chareted thames flow’’
``the mind forged manicals i hear’’ iambic tetremater

Question 3

exposure

Answer 3

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
a successive flight of bullets streak the sliencw. less deadly than the air/'' but nothung happens’’

Question 4

emigree

Answer 4

“I left it as a child, but my memory of it is / sunlight-clear.”
i am branded by an impression of sunlight''# my city hides behind me'' my city hides behind me’’

Question 5

tissue

Answer 5

paper that lets light shine through'' pages smoothed and stroked and turned’ fine slips… might fly our lives like paper kites’’

Question 6

kamikaze

Answer 6

A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
“Green-blue translucent sea”
the free verse

Question 7

prelude

Answer 7

“One summer evening (led by her) I found / A little boat tied to a willow tree”
`` the horizon bound, a huge peak, black and huge’’
iambic pentameter/first person

Question 8

storm on the island

Answer 8

“So that you can listen to the thing you fear”
The flung spray hits the very windows, spits like a tame cat / Turned savage.”
`We are prepared: we build our houses squat“

Question 9

remains

Answer 9

`` I see every round as it rips through his life’’
“pain itself, the image of agony”
`possibly armed possibly not’’ The caesura

Question 10

war photographer

Answer 10

`` all flesh is grass’’

`` spools of suffering set out on orders rows’’
4 stanzas with 6 lines and the same rhyme pattern

Question 11

charge of the lightbrigade

Answer 11

“into the Valley of Death”
“back from the mouth of hell”
“rode the six hundred”

Question 12

poppies

Answer 12

``released a song bird from its cage’’ metaphor
`I want to graze my nose across the tip of his nose’’
free verse

Question 13

bayonet charge

Answer 13

‘’he lugged a riffle as a smashed arm’’ simile
``sweating like molten iron from the center of his chest’’ simile
poem starts in medias res to show the fast pace of the war.

Question 14

last duchess

Answer 14

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall” visual imagery
“will’t you sit and look at her?”
enjambment “ I call that peace a wonder” The uninterrupted flow of the Duke’s speech through enjambment can mirror his smooth and manipulative manner of speaking.

Question 15

ozymandias

Answer 15

my name is ozymandias king of kings’’