my boy jack any poetry

Question 1

setting

Answer 1

1. the poets are waiting
2. exposure
3. happy now is England

Question 2

duty

Answer 2

1 anthem for doomed youth
2 for all we have and all we are
3 the poets are waiting

Question 3

personal loss

Answer 3

1 mental cases
2 happy now is England
3 the mother

Question 4

courage

Answer 4

1 exposure
2 repression of a war experience
3 the poets are waiting

Question 5

psychological impact

Answer 5

1 repression of war experience
2 mental cases
3 a war film

Question 6

early attitudes to war

Answer 6

1 the poets are waiting
2 socks
3 for all we are and have

Question 7

time

Answer 7

1 the call
2 socks
3 the next war

Question 8

age and generation

Answer 8

1 for all we have and are
2 to germany
3 the poets are waiting/ socks

Question 9

regret

Answer 9

1 mental cases
2 the next war
3 socks
4. I looked up from my writing

Question 10

heroism

Answer 10

1 repression of a war experience
2 the poets are waiting
3 exposure

Question 11

pressure

Answer 11

1 for all we have and are
2 I looked up from my writing
3 the poets are waiting

Question 12

women

Answer 12

1 socks
2 the poets are waiting
3 the mother

Question 13

non - combat attitudes

Answer 13

1 for all we have and are
2 the conscript
3 socks

Question 14

pain

Answer 14

1 exposure
2 mental cases
3 the mother

Question 15

rudyard

Answer 15

1 for all we have and are
2 happy now is England
3 the next war

Question 16

carry

Answer 16

1 socks
2 the mother
3 a war film

Question 17

jack

Answer 17

1 exposure
2 to germany
3 dulce et decorum est / anthemn for doomed youth

Question 18

elsie

Answer 18

1 the poets are waiting

2 recruiting

Question 19

bowe

Answer 19

1 repression of a war experience
2 mental cases
3 exposure / the conscript of 1940

Question 20

the poets are waiting: setting quotes

Answer 20

1 “reclining as usual on armchairs and sofas”
2 “cake at their elbows”
3 “their storms are brewed in teacups”

Question 21

exposure setting quotes; setting

Answer 21

1 “iced east winds that knife us”
2 “worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous”
3 “like twitching agonies of men among its branches”
4 “on us the doors are closed”

Question 22

happy now is England quotes: setting

Answer 22

1 “warm beauty of this spring and summer”
2 “happy in all her dark woods, green fields, towns, her hills…”
3 “there is not a nobleness of heart, hand, brain but shines purer; happiest is England now”

Question 23

anthem for doomed youth quotes: duty

Answer 23

1 “what passing-bells for these who die as cattle”
2 “no prayers nor bells”
3 “the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells”
4 “each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds”

Question 24

for all we have and all we are quotes: duty

Answer 24

1 “for all our children’s fate”
2 “The hun is at the gate!”
3 “but iron sac rife of body, will and soul”

Question 25

the poets are waiting: duty

Answer 25

1 "to what god shall we chant our songs battle?" 2 "reclining as usual on armchairs and sofas" 3 "cake at their elbows" 4 "their storms are brewed in teacups"

Question 26

mental cases quotes: personal loss

Answer 26

1 "gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets" 2 "misery swelters" 3 "memory fingers in their hair of murders" 4 "eyeballs shrink tormented back into their brains" 5 "dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh"

Question 27

the mother quotes: personal loss

Answer 27

1 "where parting loss and bloodshed shall not be" 2 "one whom you have loved have drained the bitter cup" 3 "her heart shall break, well lad, you will not know"

Question 28

happy now is England: personal loss

Answer 28

1 "there is nothing more wonderful than a great people moving towards the deep" 2 "her faith fullest children, grief itself is proud" 3 "happy is England that the brave die'

Question 29

repression of a war experience quotes: courage

Answer 29

1 "unless they loose control of ugly thought" 2 "now light your pip: look, what a steady hand draw a deep breath; stop thinking, count fiftieth" 3 "those whispering guns"

Question 30

exposure: courage

Answer 30

1 "our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us werid we keep awake because the night is silent" 2 "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence" 3 "for love of god seems dying"

Question 31

the poets are waiting quotes: courage

Answer 31

1 "measuring their thoughts for felicitous sonnets" 2 "whose tedious brains are draped" 3 "reclining as usual on armchairs and sofas" 4 "cake at their elbows" 5 "their storms are brewed in teacups and their wars are tough in sneers or little blots of ink"

Question 32

repression of a war experience quotes: psychological impact

Answer 32

1 "soliders don't go mad unless they lose control of ugly thoughts" 2 "why won't it rain?" 3 "in the breathless air outside" 4 "those whispering guns... I'm going crazy"

Question 33

mental cases quotes: psychological impacts

Answer 33

1 "gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets" 2 "these are men who's minds the dead have ravished" 3 "memory fingers in their hair of murders" 4 "their eyeballs shrink tormented back into their brains" 5 "dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh"

Question 34

a war films quotes: psychological impacts

Answer 34

1 "as in a dream still hearing the machine guns rattle and shells scream" 2 "my little son" 3. "to war. tortured, torn"

Question 35

the poets are waiting quotes; early attitudes towards war

Answer 35

1 "reclining as usual on armchairs and sofas" 2 "cake at their elbows" 3 "their storms are brewed in tea cups and their wars are fought in sneers and little blots of ink" 4 "roaring for war' "snorting their jargon"

Question 36

for all we have and are quotes; early attitudes towards the war

Answer 36

1 "the hun is at the gate!" 2 "the old commands stand" 3 "iron sacrifice of of body, will and soul"

Question 37

socks quotes; early attitudes towards the war

Answer 37

1 "he was brave, well so was i" 2 "wonder if he's warm enough" 3 "he'll come out onto some how"

Question 38

the call quotes: time

Answer 38

1 "who's for the trench- are you, my laddie" 2 "who's for the khaki suit" 3 "who's keen on getting fit" 4 "and who'd rather wait abit"

Question 39

socks quotes; time

Answer 39

1 "he was brave well so was i" 2 "wonder if he's warm enough" 3 "hark! the paper boys again!"

Question 40

the next war: time

Answer 40

1 "to those brave lads who were so willingly burnt" 2 "richest of these wizards" 3 "and the children, went" 4 "should fall for the same cause?"

Question 41

for all we have and are quotes; age and generation

Answer 41

``` 1 "for all our children fate" 2 "stand up and take the war" 3 "the hun is at the gate" 4 "the old commando stand" 5 "but iron sacrificee of body, will and soul" ```

Question 42

the poets are waiting: age and generation

Answer 42

1 "felicitous sonnets" 2 "reclining as usual on armchairs and sofas" 3 "cake at their elbows" 4 "their storms are brewed in teacups and their wars are fought in sneers and little blots of ink"

Question 43

to germany quotes: age and generation

Answer 43

1 "you are blind like us" 2 "we stumble and we do not understand" 3 "the blind fight the blind"

Question 44

the next war: regret

Answer 44

``` 1 "to those brave lads who were so willingly burnt or blinded" 2 "richest of these wizards" 3 "not too costly" 4 "should fall for the same cause?" 5"and the children went" ```

Question 45

I looked up from my writing quotes: regret

Answer 45

1 "did you hear his frenzied Tattle? it was sorrow for his son" 2 "and now I am curious to look into the blinkered mind of one who wants to write a book in a world of such a kind" 3 "her temper overwrought me" 4 "her meditative misty head" 5 "the moons full gaze"

Question 46

mental cases quotes; regret

Answer 46

1 "these are the men who minds the dead have ravished" 2 "memory fingers in their hair of murders" 3 "multitudinous murders they once witnessed" 4 "their eyeballs shrink tormented back into their brains" 5 "dawn breaks like a wound that bleeds afresh"

Question 47

repression of a war experience: heroism

Answer 47

1 "its been proven that soldiers don't go mad unless they loose control of ugly thoughts" 2 "look, what a steady hand. draw a deep breath; stop thinking: count fifth-teen" 3 "why won't it rain" 4 "breathless air" 5"whispering guns... im going crazy"

Question 48

the poets are waiting: heroism

Answer 48

1 "felicitous sonnets" 2 "reclining as usual on air chairs and sofas 3 "cake at their elbows" 4 "their storms are brewed in teacups and their wars fought in sneers and little bots of ink"

Question 49

exposure: heroism

Answer 49

1 "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us" 2 "worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous" 3 "sudden successive flights of bullet streak the silence"

Question 50

for all we have and are quotes: pressure

Answer 50

``` "for all our children fate" 2 "stand up and take the war" 3 "the hun is at the gate" 4 "the old commando stand" 5 "but iron sacrificee of body, will and soul" ```

Question 51

the poets are waiting quotes: pressure

Answer 51

1 sonnets 2 chairs 3 cake 4 tea cups and little blots of ink

Question 52

I looked up from my writing: pressure

Answer 52

1 "the moons full gaze on me" 2 "her meditative misty head" 3 "did you hear his freizend tattle? it was sorrow for his son" 4 "one one who wants to write a book in a world of such a kind" 5 "her tempter over wrought me"

Question 53

socks: women

Answer 53

1 "he was brave well so was i" 2 "wonder if he is warm enough" 3 "hark! the paper boys again!" 4 "wonder if he is fighting now"

Question 54

the poets are waiting: women

Answer 54

1 felicitous sonnets 2 sofa 3 cupcakes 4 brewed storms little blots of ink

Question 55

the mother: women

Answer 55

1 "where parting loss and bloodshed shall not be" 2 "one whom you have loved have drained the bitter cup" 3 "her heart shall break, well lad, you will not know"

Question 56

for all we have and are :non combat attitudes

Answer 56

1 "what stands if freedom fall? who dies if England live" 2 "stand up and take the war" 3 "the hun is at the gate" 4 "the old commando stand" 5 "but iron sacrificee of body, will and soul"

Question 57

the conscript: non-combatant attitudes

Answer 57

1 "endless stream of naked white bodies" 2 "indifferent, flippant and earnest but all bored" 3 "and the chairman, as his monocle falls again, pronounces each doom with easy and indifferent breath" 4 "thorn crowned head"

Question 58

socks: non combat attitudes

Answer 58

1 "knit off nine and slip the rest" 2 "wonder if he's warm enough" 3 "wonder if he's fighting now"

Question 59

exposure quotes; pain

Answer 59

1 "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us" 2 "worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous" 3 "sudden successive flights of bullet streak the silence"

Question 60

the mother: pain

Answer 60

1 "where parting loss and bloodshed shall not be" 2 "one whom you have loved have drained the bitter cup" 3 "her heart shall break, well lad, you will not know"

Question 61

mental cases: pain

Answer 61

1 "these are the men who minds the dead have ravished" 2 "memory fingers in their hair of murders" 3 "multitudinous murders they once witnessed" 4 "their eyeballs shrink tormented back into their brains" 5 "dawn breaks like a wound that bleeds afresh"

Question 62

happy now is England: pain

Answer 62

1 "there is nothing more wonderful than a great people moving towards the deep" 2 "her faith fullest children, grief itself is proud" 3 "happy is England that the brave die'