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Question 1

Quotes for Ozymandias

Answer 1

• My name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works ye mighty and dispair
• Half sunk a shattered visage lies
• round the decay of that colossal wreck
• a sneer of cold command

Question 2

The prelude

Answer 2

• small circles glittering idly in the moon
• It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
• The horizons bound, a huge peak black and huge
• no familier shapes remained …a trouble to my dreams

Question 3

London

Answer 3

• Blasts the newborn infants tea; and blights with plagues the marriage hearse
• Runs in blood down palace walls
• Marks of weakness, marks of woe
• mind forged manacles

Question 4

My Last Duchess

Answer 4

• Half flush that dies along her throat
• she liked whatever she looked on
• my last duchess painted on the wall […] will’t please you sit and look at her
• my gift of a nine hundred year old name

Question 5

Exposure

Answer 5

• slowiy our ghosts drag
• but nothing happens
• dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
• pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for faces

Question 6

storm on the island

Answer 6

• exploding comfortably […] tragic chorus
• we are prepared; we build our houses squat
• we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly
• it is a huge nothing that we fear

Question 7

Bayonet charge

Answer 7

• sweating like molten iron in the centre of his chest
• king, honor, dignity, etc.
• his terrors touchy dynamite
• suddenly he awoke and was running-raw

Question 8

Remains

Answer 8

• possibly armed probably not
• i see every round as it rips through his life
• not left for dead in some, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land
• tosses his guts back into into his body

Question 9

Poppies

Answer 9

• Sellotape bandaged around my hand, i rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could
• A split second and you were away, intoxicated
• The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch
• play at being eskimos like we did when you were little

Question 10

War Photographer

Answer 10

Spools of suffering laid out in ordered rows

• which did not tremble then (new line) though seem to now
• A strangers features start to twist before his eyes
• for sundays supplement
• between the tears and pre lunch beers

Question 11

Kamikaze

Answer 11

• yes grandfathers boat” -volta
• “flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun” - links to flag
• “at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting”
• “till gradually we too learnt to be silent, to live as though he had never returned”

Question 12

The Emigree

Answer 12

• My original view, the bright filled paperweight
• it may be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight
• I comb its hair and love it’s shining eyes
• talk about structure