Poetry

Question 1

She walks in beauty - Lord Byron

Answer 1

'’like the night’’
‘‘cloudless climes, starry skys’’
‘‘dark and bright’’
‘‘raven trees’’
‘‘cheek’’ ‘‘brow’’
enjambment

Question 2

Valentine - Carol Anne Duffy

Answer 2

'’I give you an onion’’
‘‘careful undressing of love;;
‘‘moon wrapped in brown paper’’
‘‘lethal.’’
‘‘its scent will cling to your fingers’

Question 3

Mametz wood - Owen Sheers

Answer 3

'’wasted young’’
‘‘broken bids egg of a skull’’
‘‘relic of a finger’’
‘‘nesting machine guns’’
‘‘socketed heads’’
long sentences + enjambment

Question 4

The soldier - Rupert Brooke

Answer 4

First person
‘‘If I should die think only this of me’’
‘‘England’’ repeats
‘‘all evil shed away’’
‘‘eternal mind’’
‘‘English heaven’’

Question 5

Living space - Imtiaz Dharker

Answer 5

'’not enough straight lines’’
‘‘beams balance crookedly’’
‘‘squeezed’’
‘‘slanted universe’’
‘‘thin walls’’
‘‘white eggs’’ ‘‘dark edge’’

Question 6

London - William Blake

Answer 6

18th century -mdramatic monologue

'’marks of weakness’
‘‘infants cry of fear’’
‘‘chimney sweepers cry’’
‘‘runs in blood down palace walls’’
‘‘plagues’’

Question 7

Excerpt from the Prelude - William Wordsworth

Answer 7

first person blank verse enjambment

'’frosty season’’
twilight blaz’d
wheels about
‘‘tinkled like iron, while the distant hills’’
orange sky died away

Question 8

Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes

Answer 8

'’in my sleep rehearse perfect kills’
‘‘convenience of high trees’’
‘‘Creation’’
‘‘it is all mine’’
‘‘the sun is behind me’’
dramatic monologue
first person pronouns in each stanza

Question 9

Ozymandias - Percy Shelley

Answer 9

'’vast trunkless legs’’
‘‘shattered visage’’
‘‘sneer of cold command’’
‘‘colossal wreck’’
disrupted iambic pentameter
second hand account
1 stanza