Poetry themes and quotes

Question 1

Ozymandias key theme

Answer 1

Human power is meaningless compared to nature and time.

Question 2

Ozymandias quotes

Answer 2

“Lone and level sands”
“Sneer of cold command”
“That colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
“Look on me works and despair”

Question 3

London key theme

Answer 3

Suffering due to the abuse of power is never ending. It will remain until people revolt.

Question 4

London quotes

Answer 4

“I wander through each chartered street”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
“MInd-forged manacles I hear”

Question 5

Extract from the prelude key theme

Answer 5

The arrogance of human assumption of power when nature is superior

Question 6

Extract from the prelude quotes

Answer 6

“It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”
“Huge and mighty forms that do not live like men”
“Led by her”

Question 7

My last duchess key theme

Answer 7

His power has led to a paranoia. He controls others because he cant control himself.

Question 8

My last duchess quotes

Answer 8

“She had a heart too soon made glad”
“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together”
“Thats my last duchess painted on the wall”

Question 9

The charge of the light brigade key themes

Answer 9

The brutality and chaos of war, and how it is glorified.

Question 10

Charge of the light brigade quotes

Answer 10

“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred”
“When can their glory fade?”
“In their honor and glory”

Question 11

Exposure key themes

Answer 11

Nature is the strongest enemy. The psychological effect of war.

Question 12

Exposure quotes

Answer 12

“mad gusts tugging on the wire like twitching agonies”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”

Question 13

Storm on the island key themes

Answer 13

Natures danger and violence. Also presents isolation as a fear.

Question 14

Storm on the island quotes

Answer 14

“Branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”
“We build our houses squat”

Question 15

Bayonet charge key themes

Answer 15

The reality of war. Dehumanisation of soldiers.

Question 16

Bayonet charge quotes

Answer 16

“Listening between the footfalls for the reason of his still running”
“Cold clockwork”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”

Question 17

Remains key themes

Answer 17

The psychological trauma of war

Question 18

Remains quotes

Answer 18

“On another occasion we get sent out”
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
“Probably armed, possibly not”

Question 19

Poppies themes

Answer 19

The grief that comes with memory(for the mother). She is also a victim of conflict.

Question 20

Poppies quotes

Answer 20

“The world overflowing like a treausure chest”
“I released a songbird from its cage”
“All of my words turned into felt, slowly melting”

Question 21

War photographer themes

Answer 21

A sense of duty not being fulfilled. Internal conflict.

Question 22

War photographer quotes

Answer 22

“His hands didnt tremble then but do now”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”
“Readers eyes prick with tears between baths and pre-lunch beers”

Question 23

Tissue key themes

Answer 23

The futility of human power and possessions

Question 24

Tissue quotes

Answer 24

“credit cards might run our lives like paper kites”
“A grand design with living tissue”
“Paper thinned to be transparent turned into your skin”

Question 25

Emigree key themes

Answer 25

Child innocence and nostalgia overlooking the war torn aspect of the country

Question 26

Emigree quotes

Answer 26

"It may be at war but i am branded with an image of sunlight" "My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight" "They accuse my of being dark in their free city"

Question 27

Checkin out me history key themes

Answer 27

Eurocentric brainwashing. He lost his childhood to the teaching of negative black history.

Question 28

Checkin out me history quotes

Answer 28

"Bandage up me eye with my own history" "de cow who jump over de moon" "Now i carvin out me own history"

Question 29

Kamikaze key themes

Answer 29

Internal conflict, and conflict between expectations and his reality. Nature is the answer to his problems.

Question 30

Kamikaze quotes

Answer 30

"a shaven head full of powerful incantations" "Which had been the better way to die" "A huge flag waved one way then the other in a figure of eight" "Gradually we too learned to be slient"

Question 31

MLD - I gave commands; / Then

Answer 31

all smiles stopped together

Question 32

MLD - Thats my last duchess painted on

Answer 32

the wall, / looking as if she were alive

Question 33

MLD - Notice neptune though, /

Answer 33

taming a sea-horse

Question 34

Ozymandias - Look on my works,

Answer 34

ye mighty, and despair

Question 35

Ozymandias - The lone and level sands

Answer 35

stretch far away

Question 36

Ozymandias - Half-sunk,

Answer 36

a shattered visage lies

Question 37

Bayonet Charge - Suddenly he awoke

Answer 37

and was running

Question 38

Bayonet charge - In what cold clockwork of

Answer 38

the stars and the nations

Question 39

Bayonet Charge - I listened between my footfalls for

Answer 39

the reason of my still running

Question 40

Bayonet Charge - His terror's

Answer 40

touchy dynamite

Question 41

Exposure - But nothing

Answer 41

happens

Question 42

Exposure - Sudden successive flights of

Answer 42

bullets streak the silence

Question 43

Exposure - Like twitching agonies of men

Answer 43

between its brambles

Question 44

Exposure - Dawn massing in the east

Answer 44

her melancholy army

Question 45

London - Mind-forged

Answer 45

manacles i hear

Question 46

London - The hapless soldiers sigh /

Answer 46

Runs in blood down palace walls

Question 47

London - I wander through

Answer 47

each chartered street

Question 48

Checkin out me history - Bandage up me eye

Answer 48

with me own history

Question 49

Checkin out me history - Dem tell me /

Answer 49

what dem want to tell me

Question 50

Checkin out me history - I carving out

Answer 50

me own identity

Question 51

Remains - His bloody life in

Answer 51

my blood hands

Question 52

Remains - I see every round as

Answer 52

it rips through his life

Question 53

Remains - Probably armed,

Answer 53

possibly not

Question 54

Remains - His blood-shadow

Answer 54

stays on the street

Question 55

Remains - tosses his guts

Answer 55

back into the body

Question 56

Prelude - A huge peak,

Answer 56

black and huge

Question 57

Prelude - It was an act of

Answer 57

troubled pleasure

Question 58

Prelude - With trembling oars

Answer 58

i turned

Question 59

Prelude - One night,

Answer 59

led by her

Question 60

War photographer - A hundred agonies

Answer 60

in black and white

Question 61

War photographer - Spools of suffering

Answer 61

set out in ordered rows

Question 62

War photgrapher - My hands didnt tremble then

Answer 62

but seem to now

Question 63

War phtographer - The readers eyeballs prick/

Answer 63

with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers

Question 64

Poppies - Released a song-bird

Answer 64

from its cage

Question 65

Poppies - All my words flattened,

Answer 65

rolled, turned into felt

Question 66

Poppies - The world overflowing

Answer 66

like a treasure chest

Question 67

Tissue - Paper that lets

Answer 67

the light shine through

Question 68

Tissue - Might fly our lives

Answer 68

like paper kites

Question 69

Tissue - Paper turned

Answer 69

into your skin

Question 70

Tissue - If builings were paper,

Answer 70

i might feel their drift

Question 71

Bayonet Charge - Sweating like molten iron from

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the centre of his chest

Question 72

Bayonet Charge - Kind, honour, human dignity, etcetera /

Answer 72

Dropped like luxuries

Question 73

Bayonet Charge - He lugged a rifle

Answer 73

numb as a smashed arm

Question 74

Charge of the light brigade - Into the valley of death

Answer 74

rode the six hundred

Question 75

Charge of the light brigade - Theirs not to reason why, /

Answer 75

their but to do and die

Question 76

Chareg of the light brigade - Cannon to the right of them, /

Answer 76

cannon to the left of them

Question 77

Emigree - There once was a country....

Answer 77

I left it as a child

Question 78

Emigree - I am accused of being dark in

Answer 78

my free city

Question 79

Emigree - The frontiers rise between us,

Answer 79

close like waves

Question 80

Emigree - I am branded by an

Answer 80

image of sunlight

Question 81

Emigree - My shadow falls as

Answer 81

evidence of sunlight

Question 82

Kamikaze - A shaven head full of

Answer 82

powerful incantations

Question 83

Kamikaze - He must have wondered which has been

Answer 83

the better way to die

Question 84

Kamikaze - Her father embarked

Answer 84

at sunrise

Question 85

Storm on the island - We are bombarded

Answer 85

by the empty air

Question 86

Storm on the island - It is a huge

Answer 86

nothing that we fear

Question 87

Storm on the island - You can listen to the thing you fear/

Answer 87

Forgetting that it pummels your house too

Question 88

Storm on the island - We build our

Answer 88

houses squat

Question 89

Tissue - Maps too. The sun shines through /

Answer 89

their bordelines

Question 90

Tissue - The marks / that rivers make,

Answer 90

roads, / railtracks

Question 91

Prelude - One summer evening

Answer 91

(led by her) I found / A little boat tied to a willow tree

Question 92

Prelude - There hung a darkness,

Answer 92

call it solitude / Or blank desertion

Question 93

Prelude - No familar shapes remained....

Answer 93

but huge and mighty forms that do not live like men