Poetry (Power And Conflict)

Question 1

‘The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’

Answer 1

Ozymandias

Question 2

‘Of that colossal wreck’

Answer 2

Ozymandias

Question 3

‘Runs in blood down palace wall’

Answer 3

London

Question 4

‘The horizon’s bound. A huge peak black and huge’

Answer 4

Extract from the prelude

Question 5

‘As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred year old name with anybody’s gift’

Answer 5

My last duchess

Question 6

‘Taming a seahorse’

Answer 6

My last duchess

Question 7

‘Theirs but to do or die
Into the valley of death

Answer 7

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Question 8

‘Like twitching agonies of men among it’s brambles’

Answer 8

Exposure

Question 9

‘Exploding comfortably’

Answer 9

Storm on the Island

Question 10

‘In raw-steamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy’

Answer 10

Bayonet Charge

Question 11

‘One of my mates tosses his guts back into his body’

Answer 11

Remains

Question 12

‘Play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little’

Answer 12

Poppies

Question 13

‘To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat’

Answer 13

War Photographer

Question 14

‘Maps too. The sun shines through’

Answer 14

Tissue

Question 15

‘I have no passport, there’s no way back at all but my city comes to me in its own white plane’

Answer 15

The Emigrée

Question 16

‘Dem tell
Dem tell me what they want to tell me
But now I am checking out me own history
I carving out my own identity’

Answer 16

Checking Out Me History

Question 17

‘The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun’

Answer 17

Kamikaze

Question 18

‘And remembered how he and his brothers waiting in the shore’

Answer 18

Kamikaze

Question 19

‘What are we doing here?’

Answer 19

Exposure

Question 20

‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’

Answer 20

Exposure

Question 21

‘Shatter’d visage’

Answer 21

Ozymandias - Ironic as even a human cannot control the damaging effects of time

Question 22

‘Boundless and Bare’

Answer 22

Ozymandias - Feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert

Question 23

‘A sneer of cold command’

Answer 23

Ozymandias - was arrogant and knew he was powerful

Question 24

‘Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things’

Answer 24

Ozymandias - Having ‘survive’ and ‘lifeless’ in the sentence shows that art humans can try and be immortal but they won’t live a life that is worth living

Question 25

‘I wander through each chartered street’

Answer 25

London - ‘I’ makes it personnel and believable and ‘each chartered street’ shows how the whole city is affected

Question 26

‘Charted Thames does flow’

Answer 26

London - The River Thames is under control of humans showing the power of humans over nature

Question 27

‘Marks of weakness marks if woe’

Answer 27

London - Repetition emphasises the feeling bleakness

Question 28

‘Runs in blood down palace wall’

Answer 28

London - People behind the palace walls do not suffer

Question 29

‘Mind-forged manicales’

Answer 29

London - Suggests people are even blaming themselves and are trapped in their own attitudes and are hopeless

Question 30

‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces - we cringe in holes’

Answer 30

Exposure by Wilfred Owen

Question 31

‘Suddenly he awoke and he was running - raw in seamed hot kahki’

Answer 31

Bayonet Charge - Hughes

Question 32

‘Is it that we are dying?’

Answer 32

Exposure - Wilfred Owen

Question 33

‘Dawn massing in the east he melancholy army’

Answer 33

Exposure - Owen

Question 34

‘Slowly our Ghosts drag home’

Answer 34

Exposure Owen showing that the journey is painful and slow

Question 35

‘Cold Clockwork’

Answer 35

Bayonet Charge - Alliterative painful eternal suffering

Question 36

‘Glimpsing the sunken fires, glozed with crusted dark jewels’

Answer 36

Turn to each other which are jewels

Question 37

‘Threw up a hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle’

Answer 37

Bayonet Charge

Question 38

‘Merciless east winds that Knive us’

Answer 38

Exposure