Anthology Quotes

Question 1

My Last Duchess (1)

Answer 1

the depth and passion of it’s earnest glance

i gave commands; then all smiles stopped

Question 2

Bayonet Charge (1)

Answer 2

Like a man who has jumped in the dark and runs

suddenly

Question 3

Charge OTLB (1)

Answer 3

Valley of death / Jaws of death

Question 4

Checking Out me History (1)

Nanny de Maroon

Answer 4

see far woman / fire-woman / hopeful stream

Question 5

Exposure (1)

Answer 5

merciless iced east winds that knife us

Question 6

Extract from the Prelude (1)

Answer 6

small circles glittering idly in the moon

Question 7

Kamikaze (1)

Answer 7

green-blue translucent sea

Question 8

London (1)

Answer 8

I wander through each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Thames does flow

Question 9

Ozymandias (1)

Answer 9

two vast trunkless legs of stone

Question 10

Poppies (1)

Answer 10

spasms of paper red

Question 11

Remains (1)

Answer 11

every round rips through his life

Question 12

Storm on the Island (1)

Answer 12

wind dives and strafes

Question 13

The Emigrée (1)

Answer 13

white streets of that city, the graceful slopes

Question 14

Tissue (1)

Answer 14

Paper thinned by age or touching

paper that lets the light shine through

Question 15

War Photographer (1)

Answer 15

like running children in a nightmare heat

Question 16

Exposure (2)

Answer 16

fingering stealth feeling for our faces

twitching agonies of men

Question 17

Extract from the Prelude (2)

Answer 17

Lustily, I dipped my oars into the silent lake …..
my boat
Went heaving through the water like a swan

Question 18

My Last Duchess (2)

Answer 18

For calling up that spot of joy

Looking as if she were alive

too soon made glad

Question 19

London (2)

Answer 19

Mind forged manacles

marriage hearse

Question 20

Remains (2)

Answer 20

blood shadow stays on the streets

somebody else and somebody else

Question 21

Storm on the Island (2)

Answer 21

Exploding comfortably

Spits like a tame cat

Question 22

Bayonet Charge (2)

Answer 22

In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy,

And crawled in a threshing circle

Question 23

War Photographer (2)

Answer 23

Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

All flesh is grass

Question 24

Ozymandias (2)

Answer 24

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

sneer of cold command

Question 25

Tissue (2)

Answer 25

smoothed and stroked

turned transparent with attention

might fly our lives like paper kites

Question 26

The Emigreé (2)

Answer 26

But my memory of it is sun-light clear

I comb its hair and love its shining eyes

Question 27

Poppies (2)

Answer 27

All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt

ornamental stitch

Question 28

Kamikaze (2)

Answer 28

arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight

turbulent inrush of breakers

Question 29

Checking out me history (2)

Answer 29

she still brave the Russian snow
/healing star/
I carving out me identity