Conflict Poetry

Question 1

POWER OF NATURE

Answer 1

• Storm on the Island
• The Prelude
• Kamikaze
• Tissue
• Exposure
• Ozymandias

Question 2

POWER OF HUMANS

Answer 2

• Ozymandias
• Checking out me history
• My Last Duchess
• Storm on the Island
• Tissue
• London

Question 3

IDENTITY

Answer 3

• Poppies
• Storm on the Island
• Light Brigade
• Tissue
• Kamikaze
• The Emigree

Question 4

EFFECTS OF CONFLICT

Answer 4

• Bayonet Charge
• Exposure
• Remains
• Light Brigade
• Poppies
• War Photographer
• Kamikaze

Question 5

Two cast and…

Answer 5

…trunkless legs of stone

OZYMANDIAS

•metaphor for empire 
>damaged and crumbling 
•’stone’
>hard material 
>lack of emotion

Question 6

Half sunk…

Answer 6

…a shattered visage lies

OZYMANDIAS

•nature consuming it
•face doesn’t matter
>no identity
•broken leader

Question 7

Sneer of…

Answer 7

…cold command

OZYMANDIAS

•looks down on people
>arrogance
•alliteration
>cold hearted

Question 8

King of…

Answer 8

…kings

OZYMANDIAS

• sense of power
• mocks religion
• thinks he deserves to be god

Question 9

Decay of the colossal wreck,…

Answer 9

…boundless and bare

OZYMANDIAS

•power ‘decayed’
•statue destroyed but impressive
•alliteration
>emphasises the above

Question 10

The lone and…

Answer 10

…level sands stretch

OZYMANDIAS

• power=lonely
• vast space around fallen statue

Question 11

STRUCTURE OF OZYMANDIAS

Answer 11

•iambic pentameter is broken
>refusal to conform
>human power disrupted
•first person narrative
•sonnet (14) lines
>first 8 lines: statue described in parts
>last 2 lines: huge, immortal desert vs insignificant human power

Question 12

BEHIND OZYMANDIAS

Answer 12

•statue is an allegory
>eventual end of power that everyone must suffer
•power is lost
>like the statue
>represents time
•tyranny of ruler implied through aggressive/negative language

Question 13

Chartered…

Answer 13

…streets

LONDON

• human ownership
• even Thames owned by rich
• mapped out for profit

Question 14

Marks of weakness…

Answer 14

…marks of woe

LONDON

•’marks’
>distinguished 
•’woe’
>sadness
>melancholy 
>sadness seeps from speaker’s voice

Question 15

In every/…

Answer 15

…in every/in every

LONDON

•anaphora

Question 16

The mind-forged…

Answer 16

…manacles I hear’

LONDON

• restriction of freedom
• chained by those in power

Question 17

Black’ning…

Answer 17

…church appalls

LONDON

•dirty
•evil
•religion
>bad

Question 18

Runs in blood…

Answer 18

…down palace walls

LONDON

•juxtaposition 
•guilty of letting people die 
>blood outside 
>loss of identity
>they don’t care

Question 19

And blights with plagues…

Answer 19

…the marriage hearse

LONDON

•oxymoron
>mirror marriage and death
•powerful verb and noun combination
>suggests disease and infection

Question 20

STRUCTURE OF LONDON

Answer 20

•ABAB rhyme scheme and repetition
>suffering is relentless and repetitive
•dramatic monologue
•first person narrator 
•stanza 1 and 2: suffering of people 
•stanza 3: corruptive intuitions 
•stanza 4: returns to people