Poetry comparison poems

Question 1

DOAN - Beginning

Answer 1

‘flax-dam festered’
‘rotted’, ‘sweltered’
‘bubbles gargled delicately’

Question 2

DOAN - Middle

Answer 2

‘jampotfuls of the jellied specks’
‘watch until the fattening dots burst into nimble - swimming tadpoles’
‘daddy frog’ and ‘mammy frog’

Question 3

DOAN - End

Answer 3

‘Then one hot day’
‘angry frogs invaded’
‘mud grenades’
‘blunt heads farting’
‘great slime kings’

Question 4

The Prelude - Beginning

Answer 4

‘twighlight blaz’d’
‘I heeded not the summons: - happy time’
‘a time of rapture’

Question 5

The Prelude - Middle

Answer 5

‘Proud and exulting like an untir’d horse’
‘hiss’d along the polished ice’
‘imitative of the chace’
‘pack loud bellowing’

Question 6

The Prelude - End

Answer 6

‘Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud’
‘distant hills’
‘alien sound of melancholy’
‘The orange sky of the evening died away’

Question 7

SWIB - Beginning

Answer 7

‘She walks in beauty, like the night’
‘Of cloudless climes and starry skies;’
‘all that’s best of dark and bright’

Question 8

SWIB - Middle

Answer 8

‘One shade the more, one ray the less’
‘How pure, how dear their dwelling place.’

Question 9

SWIB - End

Answer 9

‘so soft, so calm, yet eloquent/ The smiles that win the tints that glow/ But tells of days in goodness spent / A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!’

Question 10

Valentine - Beginning

Answer 10

‘Not a red rose or a satin heart’
‘I give you an onion’
‘A moon wrapped in brown paper’

Question 11

Valentine - Middle

Answer 11

‘It will blind you with tears like a lover.’
‘a wobbling photo of grief’
‘I am trying to be truthful’

Question 12

Valentine - End

Answer 12

‘Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips’
‘Lethal’
‘Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife.’

Question 13

Dulce - Beginning

Answer 13

‘Bent double like old beggars under sacks’
‘we cursed through the sludge’
‘gas shells dropping softly behind’

Question 14

Dulce - Middle

Answer 14

‘Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling’
‘flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…’
‘through the misty panes and green light… I saw him drowning’

Question 15

Dulce - End

Answer 15

‘In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.’
‘froth corrupted lungs’
‘obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud’
‘The old Lie ‘Dulce Et Decorum est Pro patria Mori.’

Question 16

London - Beginning

Answer 16

‘Charter’d Thames does flow’
‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’

Question 17

London - Middle

Answer 17

‘In every cry of every Man’
‘The mind forg’d manacles I hear’
‘every black’ning Church appalls’
‘Runs in blood down palace walls’

Question 18

London - End

Answer 18

‘the youthful Harlot’s curse’
‘Blasts the newborn Infant’s tear,’
‘plagues the marriage hearse’

Question 19

Sonnet 43 - Beginning

Answer 19

‘love’ ‘depth’ ‘breadth’ ‘height’
‘my soul can reach’

Question 20

Sonnet 43 - Middle

Answer 20

‘candlelight’ ‘Right’ ‘Purely’ ‘praise’ ‘faith’
anaphora of ‘i love thee’
‘I love thee with a love that I seemed to lose/ With my lost saints’

Question 21

Sonnet 43 - End

Answer 21

‘I love thee with my breath, /Smiles, tears of all my life! and, if God choose,/ I will but love thee better after death.’

Question 22

Ozymandias - Beginning

Answer 22

‘antique land’
‘vast and trunkless legs of stone’
‘shattered visage lies’
‘half sunk’

Question 23

Ozymandias - Middle

Answer 23

‘sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped onto these lifeless things’
‘sneer of cold command’
‘the hand that mocked them, the heart that fed’

Question 24

Ozymandias - End

Answer 24

'’My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works ye mighty and despair!’’
‘boundless and bare’
‘The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

Question 25

A Wife In London - Beginning

Answer 25

'She sits in the tawny vapour' 'webby fold on fold' 'a waning taper' 'street lamp glimmers cold'

Question 26

A Wife In London - Middle

Answer 26

jolting and defined structure contrast AsIaG ' A messenger's knock cracks smartly' 'flashed news in her hand' 'dazes to understand' 'He - has fallen - in the far South Land'

Question 27

A Wife In London - End

Answer 27

'fog hangs thicker' 'Fresh - firm - penned in the highest feather' 'In the summer weather' 'And of a new love that they would learn.'

Question 28

Manhunt - Beginning

Answer 28

'the frozen river which ran through his face' ' the damaged, porcelain collar-bone' 'only then'

Question 29

Manhunt - Middle

Answer 29

'the parachute silk of his punctured lung' 'could I bind the struts// and climb the rungs of his broken ribs'

Question 30

Manhunt - End

Answer 30

'where the bullet had finally come to rest' 'traced the scarring back to its source' 'to a sweating, unexploded mine// buried deep in his mind' 'around which/// every nerve in his bod had tightened and closed'