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Question 1

Ozymandias

Answer 1

• Set as a sonnet , using a blend of Petrachan and Shakespearean sonnet mocking Ozymandias’ hubris that resulted in his infatuation and love with barbaric power
• Iambic Pentameter used as a motif of control and demonstrate the frightful regularity of the oppression by those in power. Could suggest no way to break free

Question 2

London

Answer 2

• Uses Quatrains and Regular ABAB rhyme to emulate the mass oppression and oppression lower classes were subject to - chaining them to “mind-forged mannacles”
• Consistent iambic tetrameter heightens the motif of oppression that permeates the poem. However hope is shown in “marks of weakness,marks of woe” implying we could break free from the oppression if we all united

Question 3

Extract from, The Prelude

Answer 3

• An epic poem. a long narritive poem that details the extraordinary feats of a heroic protagonist. Possible to interpret the hero as nature personified
• Blank verse to maintain an artistic quality and keeps the reader engaged

Question 4

My Last Dutchess

Answer 4

• Structured as a dramatic monologue with no stanzas.Shows the absolute power over his wife with no room for deviation or expression of freedom
• Poem is a persona poem where the speaker takes on the personality of the Duke of Ferrara. Enables Duke to have greater control on how much information he divulges

Question 5

The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Answer 5

• Poem composed in a ballad form, historically used to demarcate events that were to be commemorated and memoralised. Shows the futility of their sacrifice too
• Irregular ryhme scheme with rhyming couplets between indented lines to create a repetitive sense of inevitability and chaos

Question 6

Exposure

Answer 6

• Consistent rhyme scheme where the fifth line strikes the reader, which often provides poignant insights into his inner thoughts on how his life was reduced to nothing
• Pararhymes “knive us” “nervous” exposes the unease and anticipation of war was more mentally torturous than the battle itself and trys to communicate the emotion of war

Question 7

Storm On The Island

Answer 7

• Blank verse to make the poem sound conversational (mirrored by colloquialisms) and makes the storm seem casual and regular
• Lack of stanzas denies the reader any respite or pause to uphold the same level of tension throughout the poem - nature attacks anytime

Question 8

Bayonet Charge

Answer 8

• Poem in third person singular focusing on the perspective of how war impacts one person. Shows it through the eyes of the soldier and makes it impossible to view war favourably
• Clear lack of rhyme scheme with lines never bearing and form of audible similarity. Could show the atmosphere of discomfort and forces you to listen to the soldiers anguish (every line there is something new)

Question 9

Remains

Answer 9

• Dramatic monologue in present tense painting that it is a traumatic account from memory. Shift in perspective shows he is coming to terms with his guilt
• Semantic field of colloquial language to show how the violence and brutality is commonplace and the casual nature of the soldier’s vernacular mirrors his causal nature to violence

Question 10

Poppies

Answer 10

• Dramatic monologue allowing every aspect of the poem to be imbued with personal emotions
• No regular rhyme (in free verse) and stanza length is irregular making the poem seem conversational and intimate. Speaker cannot control her emotions

Question 11

War Photographer

Answer 11

• Equal length to show her empathy and lack of change to the rigid form could be a metaphor for the photographer’s failures to change the perspectives of audiences, he is powerless
• Regular rhyme which makes the photographer’s photographs palatable for his unreceptive audience

Question 12

Tissue

Answer 12

• Lack of rhyme scheme creates a more free flowing text and shows attempts to exert human control are futile
• Whole poem comprises of restrictive quatrains which illuminates how suffocating and stifling human power can be. Contrasted with final one line stanza showing it is imperative that people break free from human power to live freely

Question 13

The Emigrée

Answer 13

• Has a somewhat regular structure which may be the speaker’s attempt to impose a sense of order over her city
• First person where it is written in free verse which could expose the true nature of her city, which is rifle with dissaray

Question 14

Checking Me Out History

Answer 14

• Rhyming quatrains each reference to black history comes at the end of the stanza whilst white history is prioritised. However, as it comes last it remains more pertinent in the reader’s mind. Also uses nursery rhymes illuminating this teaching of history is contrived and superficial
• Form of Agard’s diatribe is chaotic and varied

Question 15

Kamikaze

Answer 15

• Perspective shifts with the third-person narrative establishing a sense of detachment. Highlights these experiences happened to real people and describes conventionally what would be an intimate relationship - the negative effects of war endured socially,politically and emotionally for generations to come
• Initially in free verse but end resorts to iambs reinstating a steady and melancholic tone, making the poem almost mirror an elegy