Poetry (1-7)

Question 1

The charge of the light brigade author

Answer 1

Alfred lord tennyson

Question 2

Exposure author

Answer 2

Wilfred Owen

Question 3

Bayonet charge author

Answer 3

Ted Hughes

Question 4

Remains author

Answer 4

Simon armitage

Question 5

Poppies author

Answer 5

Jane weir

Question 6

War photographer author

Answer 6

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 7

Kamikaze author

Answer 7

Beatrice garland

Question 8

Charge of the light brigade rhythm

Answer 8

Dactylic dimeter

Question 9

Charge of the light brigade context

Answer 9

Written in a few minutes about the Crimean war. Lord raglan sent an order to take some cannons but they tried to take them all

Question 10

COTLB form

Answer 10

Irregular rhyme scheme, no pattern to the events
Dactylic dimeter, mimics the horses’ hooves
Structure
Lots of anaphora, repeating the start of Aline, represents how they are all in the same frame of mind
Epiphora, a lot of lines end in death, shows how they will die

Question 11

COTLB quotes

Answer 11

Rose the six hundred… left of 600… noble 600
Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs to do or die
Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them
When can their glory fade?
Came thro’ the jaws of Death

Question 12

Exposure context

Answer 12

Written by Wilfred Owen while in the trenches, representing how nothing happened but the weather affected them

Question 13

Exposure form

Answer 13

Each stanza ends in a half line, represents how it never fully ends and gets anywhere
Semantic field of weather to represent its dominance
Other lines: what are we doing here? Is it that we are dying? We turn back to our dying. For love of god is dying
4 of the lines end in but nothing happens

Question 14

Exposure quotes

Answer 14

But nothing happens x4
For love of god seems dying
Slowly our ghosts drag home
We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy
Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow
Attacks once more in ranks in shivering ranks of grey (German outfits)

Question 15

Bayonet charge context

Answer 15

Bayonet - sword coming out of a rifle
Ted Hughes was the poet laureate from 1984 to 98 received order of merit from queen Elizabeth ii
Ted Hughes was in raf but never saw combat
Ted Hughes’s father survived his regiment’s massacre in Gallipoli
About WW1

Question 16

Bayonet charge form

Answer 16

Begins mid-action, we are confused like the soldier
The pace is much slower in the middle stanza where he questions what he is doing
The second stanza where they question it is shorter
Enjambment, even between stanzas, and caesura, chaos

Question 17

Bayonet charge quotes

Answer 17

He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
In what cold clockwork of the stars and he nations / Was he the hand pointing that second?
King, honour, human dignity etcetera / Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest

Question 18

Remains context

Answer 18

About a soldier who has PTSD after killing a man
Intended to make people feel sorry for the effects that war has on people
Group of soldiers running away from a bank raid that they were involved in, described in graphic detail. Not sure whether he was unarmed or not is on his mind
In poetry collection “ the not dead” from interviews with soldiers

Question 19

Remains form

Answer 19

A lot of colloquialism, like he is speaking, seems more real
A lot of enjambment to show how it never ends
Volta in the middle where it starts talking about his PTSD rather than the event
Regular stanzas
No rhyme

Question 20

Remains quotes

Answer 20

Probably armed, possibly not x2
Well myself and somebody else and somebody else / are all of the same mind
and I swear / I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side
Tosses his guts
End of story, except not really. / His blood shadow stays on the street

Question 21

Poppies context

Answer 21

Set in present day, soldier going to Iraq/Iran
A mother’s perspective of a son going to war
Reference to Jesus “blackthorns of your hair” the crown he wore when he was sacrificed

Question 22

Poppies form

Answer 22

First person narrative, allows us to see the effects more evidently and clearly
Enjambment, constantly changing her thoughts and feelings
Caesura, represents how she is so emotional

Question 23

Poppies quotes

Answer 23

Spasms of paper red
I wanted to graze my nose / across the top of your nose, play at / being Eskimos like we did when / you were little
I was brave, as I walked / with you, to the front door, threw / it open
I traced / the inscriptions on the war memorial
I listened, hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind

Question 24

War photographer context

Answer 24

Carol Ann Duffy met a war photographer called James nachtway who inspired her to write the poem
War photos had just started to become more common, particularly in the Vietnam war, which alerted people to war but “they do not care”

Question 25

War photographer form

Answer 25

4 regular stanzas and a regular rhyme scheme represent the monotony of his life
Starts with him coming back home and ends with him going back
Present tense, more immediate, real and shocking
3rd person observational
Matter of fact, no complex vocab, semantic field of suffering

Question 26

War photographer quotes

Answer 26

The only light is red and softly glows
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, / to fields which don’t explode beneath the feat / of running children in a nightmare heat
A stranger’s features / faintly start to twist before his eyes
how he sought approval / without words to do what someone must
The reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers

Question 27

Kamikaze context

Answer 27

About a Japanese kamikaze pilot who turned around halfway to his goal
Reflects the immense social pressure on men at war
Might prompt that suicide is still a problem in today’s world

Question 28

Kamikaze form

Answer 28

Written from the viewpoint of the pilot’s daughter talking to her children
Calm tone- represents how she has accepted her father’s fate
Suppressing her emotions

Question 29

Kamikaze quotes

Answer 29

he must have looked down / at the little fishing boats / strung out like bunting / on a green-blue translucent sea
enough fuel for a one-way / journey into history
arcing in swathes / like a huge flag waved first one way / then the other in a figure of eight
My mother never spoke again / in his presence
she said, he must have wondered / which had been the better way to die

Question 30

Storm on the island (SOTI) author

Answer 30

Seamus Heaney

Question 31

SOTI context

Answer 31

Title starts with STORMONT part of Nothern Ireland where fighting happened and then peace agreed after poem was written
Britain sought to exploit Irish Catholics