Poetry

Question 1

Name quotes for Ozymandias

Answer 1

‘Look on my works, Ye mighty and despair!’
‘Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things’
‘The lone and level sands stretch far away’
‘Sneer of cold command’

Question 2

London

Answer 2

‘I wander through each chartered street’
‘The mind - forged manacles I hear’
‘Blasts the new born infants tear’
‘And the hapless soldiers sigh, runs in blood down palace walls’

Question 3

My last duchess

Answer 3

‘She had / a heart- how shall I say? -too soon made glad,/ too easily impressed’
‘That piece a wonder, now;’
‘Cast in bronze for me!’

Question 4

Charge of the light brigade

Answer 4

‘Cannon to the right of them,/ cannon to the left of them,/ cannon infront of them’
‘Into the valley of death rose the six hundred’
‘Will their glory ever fade ?’

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

'Probably armed, possibly not'
'His bloody life in my bloody hands'
'Dug in behind enemy lines'
'Tosses his guts back into his body'
'End of story, except not really '

Question 6

Bayonet charge

Answer 6

‘Stumbling across a field of clods’
‘In bewilderment then almost stopped’
‘He mugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm’
‘The patriotic tear in his eye’
‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’

Question 7

War photographer

Answer 7

‘All flesh is grass’
‘Solutions in slop trays’
‘To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet/ of running children in a nightmare heat’
‘The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’

Question 8

The prelude

Answer 8

‘The boat went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘Led by her’
‘I unloosed her chain’
‘With trembling oars I turned ‘

Question 9

Exposure

Answer 9

‘But nothing happens’
‘Merciless iced east winds that knive us…’
‘Sudden successive flights of bullets break the silence’
‘Less deadly than the air that shudders with black snow’

Question 10

Storm on the island

Answer 10

‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’
‘Spits like a tame cat/ turned savage’
‘Space is a salvo’

Question 11

Poppies

Answer 11

‘The world over flowing like a treasure chest’
‘Released a songbird from its cage’ (catharsis)
‘I pinned one onto your lapel’ (poppy)- pivot point
‘I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice again’

Question 12

Kamikaze

Answer 12

‘My mother never spoke again in his presence’
‘He must have wondered which had been a better way to die’
‘He must have looked far down at the little fishing boats’

Question 13

The emigreé

Answer 13

‘I left as a child’
Each stanza ends with ‘sunlight’ is home her happy place?
‘I comb its her and love it’s shining eyes’
‘I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
‘I can’t get it off my tongue’

Question 14

Checking out me history

Answer 14

‘Dem tell me’
‘Blind to me own identity’
‘But now I am checking out me own history’
‘Dem tell me bout de fish that ran away with the spoon, but dem never tell me bout nanny de maroon’