Poem Quotes

Question 1

Kamikaze

Answer 1

‘Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history’
‘the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun’
‘little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea’

Question 2

Charge Of The Light Brigade

Answer 2

‘Noble Six Hundred!’
‘Into the mouth of hell’
‘Back from the mouth of hell’

Question 3

Bayonet Charge

Answer 3

‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera’
‘He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm’
‘Stumbling across a field’

Question 4

War Photographer

Answer 4

‘In a dark room he is finally alone’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white’
‘’He earns his living and they do not care’

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

‘’His bloody life in my bloody hands’
‘Well myself and somebody else and somebody else’
‘Tosses his guts back into his body’

Question 6

Poppies

Answer 6

‘I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose’
‘I was brave, as i walked with you, to the front door’
‘Poppies had been placed on individual war graves’ Shows mass destruction of war

Question 7

Exposure

Answer 7

‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
‘But nothing happens’
‘Is it that we are dying’