WAR POEMS

Question 1

The manhunt- Simon Armatidge

Answer 1

“after the first phase/ after the passionate days and intimate nights”
“only then would he let me explore/ the blown hinge of his blower jaw”
“handle and hold”
“the foetus of metal below his chest”
“then and only then did I come close”

Question 2

The soldier- Rupert Brooke

Answer 2

“If I should die, think only this of me”
“a corner of a foreign field”
“for ever England”
“blessed by the suns of home”
“all evil shed away”
‘in hearts at peace, under an English heaven”

Question 3

Dulce et decorum est- Wilfred Owen

Answer 3

“bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
“coughing like hags”
“Gas! Gas! Quick boys!”
“he plunged at me, guttering, chocking, drowning”
“the old lie: dulce et decorum set/ pro patria mori”

Question 4

Mametz wood- Owen sheers

Answer 4

“for years afterwards the farmers found them”
“and even now the earth stands sentinel”
“twenty men buried in one long grave”
“in boots that out lasted them”
“with this unearthing/ slipped from their absent tongues”

Question 5

A wife in London- Thomas Hardy

Answer 5

” she sits in tawny vapour”
“his hand whom the worm now knows”
“flashed news in her hand”
“page full of his hoped return”
“and of new love that they would learn”