poems/gcse

Question 1

kamikaze

Answer 1

1- ‘they treated him as though he no longer existed’
2- ‘and sometimes,she said,he had wondered which had been a better way to die’

Question 2

charge of the light brigade

Answer 2

‘into the jaws of Death,into the mouth of hell’

‘cannon to the right of them,cannon to the left’

Question 3

bayonet charge

Answer 3

‘a patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye’

Question 4

remains

Answer 4

‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’

‘and the drinks and drugs won’t flush him out’

‘I see every round as it rips through his life’

Question 5

poppies

Answer 5

‘I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose,play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little’

‘After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage”

Question 6

War photographer

Answer 6

“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”

“to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel ..the feet of running children in a nightmare heat”

“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”

Question 7

exposure

Answer 7

“Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”

“But nothing happens”