poetry anthology quotes

Question 1

Kamikaze

Answer 1

• and though he never came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes
• they treated him as though he no longer existed
• and sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had ben the better way to die

Question 2

London

Answer 2

• In every cry of every Man,/In every infants cry of fear
• The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
• how the chmney-sweepers cry/ Every blackning Church appalls

Question 3

Remains

Answer 3

• he’s here in my head when I close my eyes? dug in behind enemy lines’
• his bloody life in my hands
• probably armed, possibly not

Question 4

Storm on the Island

Answer 4

• so that you listen to the thing that your fear / Forgetting that it pummels your house too
• you might think that the sea is company,/ exploding comfortably down on the cliffs.
• We are bombarded with the empty air.? strange its a huge nothing we fear

Question 5

Ozymandias

Answer 5

• whose frown , and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
• My name is Ozymandias king of kings: look on y works ye mighty and despair!
• Nothing beside remains. round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone andlevel sands streched far away

Question 6

War photographer

Answer 6

• home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which dont explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat.
• a hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor wil pick out five or six for sundays supplement
• From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he erans his living and they do not care

Question 7

Emigree

Answer 7

• There once was a country.. i left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
• i have no passport, theres no way back at all but my city comes to me in its out white plane
• they accuse me of being dark in their free city. My city hides behind me.