Poems

Question 1

The charge of the light brigade - alfred lord tennyson

Answer 1

Lack of individual power
‘Half a league, half a league,/half a league onward’
‘into the valley of death/rode the 600’
‘into the jaws of death/into the mouth of Hell’
‘honour… Honour’

Question 2

Exposure - wilfred owen

Answer 2

Reality of conflict, lack of power
'merciless iced east winds that knive us'
'twitching agonies of men'
'what are we doing here'
'bullets streak the silence'

Question 3

Bayonet charge - ted hugh’s

Answer 3

Conflict is isolating
'suddenly he awoke'
'cold clockwork'
'luxuries in a yelling alarm'
'like a man who has jumped up in the dark'

Question 4

Remains - simon armitage

Answer 4

Conflict is isolating
'three of a Kind'
'week after week'
'torn apart'
'his life in my bloody hands'

Question 5

War photographer - carol ann duffy

Answer 5

Reality of conflict, lack of power
'spools of suffering'
'which did not tremble then/though seem to now'
'Half-formed ghost'
'agonies in black-and-white'

Question 6

Kamikaze - Beatrice garland

Answer 6

Lack of individual power
'head/full of powerful incantations'
'fishing boats/strung out like bunting'
'my mother never spoke again/in his presence'
'which had been the better way to die.'