poems

Question 1

What quotes in the Prelude by William Wordsworth personifies the mountain as a powerful beast?

Answer 1

“upreared its head”
“measured motion like a living thing”

Question 2

What quote in Storm on the Island compares the storm to an animal?

Answer 2

“spits like a tame cat turned savage”

Question 3

What quote in the Emigree suggests that her country has been invaded and ruled harshly?

Answer 3

“it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”

Question 4

What quote in the Emigree shows her love for her country will always overrule any other feeling?

Answer 4

“i am branded by an impression of sunlight”

Question 5

What quote in Kamikaze highlights the propaganda that the government would use to promote propaganda?

Answer 5

“head full of power incantations”

Question 6

What quotes in Kamikaze suggest that the father is now treated as if he was dead?

Answer 6

“wondered which had been the better way to die”
“as though he no longer existed”

Question 7

What quotes in war photographer show the trauma that the photographer had to endure?

Answer 7

“with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“his hands, which did not tremble then but seem to now”

Question 8

What quote in checking out me history shows schools deliberate nature to change his views?

Answer 8

“blind me to my own identity”

Question 9

What 2 quotes in Remains is violent imagery?

Answer 9

“rips through his life”
“tosses his guts back into his body”

Question 10

What quote in Remains alludes to Macbeth as the warrior is filled with PTSD?

Answer 10

“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

Question 11

What 2 quotes in my last duchess suggest that the duke killed the duchess?

Answer 11

“looking as if she were alive”
“her looks went everywhere”

Question 12

What 2 quotes in London relates to the restriction and sadness that the people feel?

Answer 12

“the mind forged manacles I hear”
“in every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Question 13

What does the ABAB rhyme in London reflect?

Answer 13

How London constricts the narrators sense of freedom

Question 14

In Ozymandias what are 2 quotes which show he was a condescending and arrogant leader?

Answer 14

“sneer of cold command”
“look on my works, ye mighty and despair”

Question 15

What does the fact that Ozymandias is written in a new sonnet reflect?

Answer 15

Shows power is transitional and ever changing

Question 16

In Storm on the Island, what quotes relate to explosions/war?

Answer 16

“we are bombarded by the empty air”
“exploding comfortably”

Question 17

In Tissue, what quote represents the idea that light/nature is everlasting and that capitals and statues are transient?

Answer 17

“daylight break through capitals and monoliths”

Question 18

In Tissue, what two quotes suggest the idea that money is controlling and so we treat it with affection?

Answer 18

“might fly out lives like paper kites”
“pages smoothed and stroked and turned”

Question 19

In Poppies, what quote relates to Jesus and suggests that the son is making a sacrifice?

Answer 19

“the gelled blackthorns of your hair”

Question 20

In Poppies, what does the enjambment and the no regular rhyme scheme suggest?

Answer 20

That the mother/narrator is unsure of her feelings

Question 21

What quotes in the Charge of the Light Bregade personifies death and hell and makes them seem like monsters?

Answer 21

“jaws of death”
“mouth of hell”

Question 22

In Charge of the Light Brigade, what does the regular and relentless rhythm imitate?

Answer 22

The cavalry’s advance and the energy of the battle (fast pace action)

Question 23

What is the extended simile in Bayonet Charge that creates the image of someone blind-suggesting there’s no rational reason for war?

Answer 23

“like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs, listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running”

Question 24

In Tissue, why is there a lack of regular rhythm?

Answer 24

Gives the poem freedom and openness which reflects the narrators desire for freedom and clarity

Question 25

In Kamikaze, why is there an absence of the pilots voice and why is the daughter spoken in 3rd person?

Answer 25

Shows he’s been cut off from society and the use of the third person emphasises the disgrace between the pilot and the daughter

Question 26

What does the poem Bayonet Charge start in?

Answer 26

Starts in media res-in the middle of action

Question 27

What are the 3 main sections in the Prelude?

Answer 27

1) tone is light and carefree
2) mountain appears- tone becomes darker and more fearful
3) narrator reflects on how experience has changed him

Question 28

What are quotes in the Emigree that make the city sound pure and heavenly?

Answer 28

“the white streets of that city”
“the graceful slopes glow”

Question 29

What quote in the emigree reflects the speakers feeling of confinement?

Answer 29

“city of walls”

Question 30

What quote in the emigree suggests that her memories are solid and fixed?

Answer 30

“a bright filled paperweight”

Question 31

What 2 rhetorical questions in exposure?

Answer 31

“What are we doing here?”
“Is it is that we are dying?”

Question 32

What are 3 quotes to show the bleakness of the weather in exposure?

Answer 32

“shrivelling many hands”
“puckering foreheads crisp”
“all their eyes are ice”

Question 33

What are 2 quotes that personify nature in exposure?

Answer 33

“pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
“dawn, massing in the east, her melancholy army”

Question 34

What poems are dramatic monologues?

Answer 34

My Last Duchess and London

Question 35

What quote in My Last Duchess talks about the duke controlling the painting but not looked at his wife whilst she was alive?

Answer 35

“none puts by, the curtain I have drawn for you, but I”

Question 36

In Poppies, what are two quotes that use sewing imagery to convey nervousness and anxiety?

Answer 36

“the dove pulled freely against the sky-an ornament stitch”
“my stomach busy making tucks,darts and pleats”

Question 37

In Poppies, what’s 2 examples of imagery of a wounded soldier?

Answer 37

“spasms of paper red”
“cello-tape bandaged around my hand”

Question 38

Who was Ozymandias based off of?

Answer 38

Ramesses

Question 39

In War Photography, what are two emotive metaphors to describe pain and suffering?

Answer 39

“100 agonies in black and white”
“the readers eyeballs pricked with tears”