Poems

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

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

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

Question 5

The Charge of the light brigade

Answer 5

• Theres not to make reply, theres not to reason why, theirs but to do and die
• Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell
• Rode the six hundred […] not the six hundred

Question 6

Exposure

Answer 6

• 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 7

storm on the island

Answer 7

• exploding comfortably […] tragic chorus
• we are prepared; we build our houses squat
• we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly

Question 8

Bayonet charge

Answer 8

• 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 9

Remains

Answer 9

• 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 10

Poppies

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

War Photographer

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

Tissue

Answer 12

• Pages smoothed and stroked and turned
• Maps too […] river make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds
• A structure never meant to last
• Credit cards might fly our lives like paper kites

Question 13

The Emigree

Answer 13

• 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

Question 14

Kamikaze

Answer 14

• 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”