Poetry Anthology Quotes

Question 1

Storm on the island

Answer 1

“Storm in the island”
“So that you listen to the thing you fear - forgetting that it pummels your house too”
“You might think that the sea is company, exploding comfortably on the cliffs”
“Strange it’s a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 2

Exposure

Answer 2

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“Wearied, we keep awake because the night is silent”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”
“So we drove, sun dosed, littered with blossoms trickling where the black bird fusses - is it that we are dying”
“Pause over half known faces. All their eyes are ice, but Notting happens

Question 3

London

Answer 3

“ I wandered thro’ each charter’d street”
“The mind forged manacles I hear”
“Every blackening church appalls”
“runs in blood down palace walls”
“ and blights with plagues the marriage hearse”

Question 4

Charge of the light brigade

Answer 4

“Half a league”
“All in the valley of death”
There’s but to do and die”
“While all the world wondered”
“Honour”

Question 5

Checking out me history

Answer 5

“Dem tell me”
“Bandage up me own eye with me own history”
“Toussaint/ a slave/ with vision/ lick black/ napoleon”
“Dem tell me about Columbus an 1492/ but what happened to the Caribs and the Arawaks too”
“A healing star” (Mary seaCole)
“But now I checking out me own history/ I carving out me own identity”

Question 6

Thé émigrée

Answer 6

“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
“ I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”
My city hides behind me “
“They mutter death”
“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”

Question 7

Kamikaze

Answer 7

“ he embarked at sunrise with a flask of water a samurai sword”
“ yes, grandfather’s boat”
“ Only we children still chatted and laughed(line break) till gradually we to learn to be silent”
“ which should be the better way to die”