English: Power and Conflict Poetry

Question 1

Key quotes from Ozymandias?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 1

• “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
• “Shattered visage of lies”
• “Sneer of cold command”
• “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”
• “Boundless and bare”
• “Lone and level sands stretch far away”

Question 2

Key quotes from The Prelude?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 2

• “Led by her”
• “A little boat tied to a willow tree”
• “It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”
• “My boat went heaving through the water like a swan”
• “A huge peak, black and huge”
• “No pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields”
• “Were a trouble to my dreams”
• “There hung a darkness, call it solitude”

Question 3

Key quotes from The Charge of the Light Brigade?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 3

• “Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred”
• “Some one had blunder’d”
• “Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them”
• “Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them
• “When can their glory fade?”
• “Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!”

Question 4

Key quotes from Exposure?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 4

• “Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
• “Brambles (…) gunnery rumbles”
• “What are we doing here?”
• “The poignant misery of dawn”
• “But nothing happens”
• “Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”
• “Flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew”
• “Slowly our ghosts drag home”

Question 5

Key quotes from Storm on the Island?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 5

• “We are prepared: we build our houses squat”
• “Tragic chorus”
• “Forgetting that it pummels your house too”
• “Exploding comfortably down the cliffs”
• “Like a tame cat turned savage”
• “Wind dives and strafaes invisibly (…) We are bombarded by the empty air”
• “Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 6

Key quotes from Bayonet Charge?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 6

• “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
• “He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
• “A patriotic tear”
• “A yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle
• Semantic field of destruction: “flame”, “bayonet”, “crackling”, “terror’s touchy dynamite”
• “King, honour human dignity, etcetera”

Question 7

Key quotes from Remains?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 7

• “One of them legs it up the road”
• “Possibly armed, possibly not”
• “Myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind”
• “It rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side”
• “And there he is on the ground, sort of inside out”
• “End of story, except not really”
• “Tosses his guts back into his body”
• “And the drink and drugs won’t flush him out-“
• “Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land”
• “His bloody life in my bloody hands”

Question 8

Key quotes from Poppies?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 8

• “Poppies had already been placed on individual war graves. Before you left.”
• “Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade”
• “All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
• “I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door”
• “Leaned against it like a wishbone”
• “I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching in the wind”

Question 9

Key quotes from War Photograher?

(Name as many as you can)

Answer 9

• “Set out in ordered rows”
• “As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”
• “All flesh is grass”
• “Beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now”
• “A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes”
• “A half-formed ghost”
• “And how blood stained into foreign dust”
• “A hundred agonies in black-and-white, from which his editor will pick out five or six”
• “And they do not care”

Question 10

Key quotes from Kamikaze?

Answer 10

• “Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samuri sword”
• “A shaven head full of powerful incantations”
• “Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”
• “The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
• “They treated him as though he no longer existed”
• “Till gradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned”
• “This was no longer the father we loved”
• “And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die”