Poetry

Question 1

OZYMANDIAS - controlling

Answer 1

“Sneer of cold command”

Question 2

OZYMANDIAS - arrogant

Answer 2

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my words, he mighty and despair!”

Question 3

OZYMANDIAS - setting

Answer 3

“Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sand stretch far away”

Question 4

LONDON - everything is owned

Answer 4

“I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow”

Question 5

LONDON - restrictions in mind

Answer 5

“The mind- forged manacles I hear”

Question 6

LONDON - soldiers are suffering

Answer 6

“The hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down palace walls”

Question 7

THE PRELUDE - confident with nature (the water)

Answer 7

“Like a swan”

Question 8

THE PRELUDE- the mountain is towering over him

Answer 8

“ a huge peak, black and huge”

Question 9

THE PRELUDE - he is left confused and depressed

Answer 9

“There hung a darkness” (over his mind)

Question 10

MY LAST DUCHESS - ownership of the duchess

Answer 10

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall”

Question 11

MY LAST DUCHESS - euphemism for his wife’s murder

Answer 11

“I gave commands; then all smiles stopped”

Question 12

MY LAST DUCHESS - form

Answer 12

Use of rhyming couplets show controlling nature

Question 13

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - they were on a suicide mission

Answer 13

“Theirs but to do and die”

Question 14

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - they were riding into Hell

Answer 14

“Into the jaws of death”

Question 15

THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIDGADE - honour them

Answer 15

“Honour The Charge they made! Honour the light brigade”

Question 16

EXPOSURE - affect of the cold

Answer 16

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”

Question 17

EXPOSURE - form

Answer 17

Regular ABBAC rhyme scheme, shows relentlessness of war

Question 18

EXPOSURE - god

Answer 18

“For the love of God seems dying”

Question 19

STORM ON THE ISLAND - the people just have to wait

Answer 19

“We just sit tight while wind dives/ And storages invisibly”

Question 20

STORM ON THE ISLAND- form

Answer 20

Written in blank verse, in rhyming lines

Question 21

STORM ON THE ISLAND - you forget it could happen to you

Answer 21

“So that you can listen to the thing you fear/ forgetting that it pummels your house too”

Question 22

STORM ON THE ISLAND - the fear is pointless

Answer 22

“We are bombarded by empty air / Strange. It’s a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 23

KAMIKAZE - he must have wished he died

Answer 23

“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die”

Question 24

KAMIKAZE - they don’t love his father anymore

Answer 24

“This was no longer the father we loved”

Question 25

KAMIKAZE - the father changed his mind due to the beauty of nature

Answer 25

“He must have looked far down / At the little fishing boats / Strung out like bunting”

Question 26

BAYONET CHARGE - violent imagery

Answer 26

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air” * violent imagery and onomatopoeia describes the sound and impact of the shots * belly is soft and fleshy - could be seen as vulnerable

Question 27

BAYONET CHARGE - soldiers fear

Answer 27

“His terror’s touchy dynamite” * alliteration and metaphor * 2 meanings: 1. He is very close to a mental breakdown 2. He is used as a weapon, driven by his terror

Question 28

BAYONET CHARGE - starting to question his patriotism

Answer 28

“In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations / Was he the hand pointing that second?” * emphasises how insignificant the soldier I and shows his lack of control. * ”cold” implies that the people in charge are emotionally cold and don’t care about the individual soldiers

Question 29

REMAINS - doubt which contrast with the definite action that follows

Answer 29

“Possibly armed, probably not” * the speaker can’t get the memory out of his mind . He is tormented by thought of the man, and wondering whether he was armed or not. If not then he has killed an innocent man * he feels guilty

Question 30

REMAINS - grotesque exaggerated imagery when he kills the man

Answer 30

“ I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side” * repetition of “I see” emphasises the visual horror of the scene * metaphor * alliteration of “r” and onomatopoeic verb “rips” recreates the sound of a rip to make the scene mor realistic and gruesome * exaggerated image - saying he can see strait through the bullet holes

Question 31

REMAINS - he thinks that once he’s home he’ll forget the horrors

Answer 31

“The I’m home on leave. But I blink” * short simple sentence and suddenness hints that the speaker could be confused and fearful * the stanza ends in enjambment - the horror is still there when the next line starts

Question 32

REMAINS - form

Answer 32

Use of Free verse and enjambement • poem seems disjointed and broken up, perhaps reflecting the speaker’s state of mind.