Poetry

Question 1

name 4 quotes from Ozymandias

Answer 1

any 4 from:
1. antique land
2. trunkless legs
3. half sunk, a shattered visage lies
4. ye mighty and despair
5. nothing beside remains
6. King of kings

Question 2

name 4 quotes from London

Answer 2

any 4 from:
1. in every (repetition)
2. mind-forged manacles
3. blights with with plagues the marriage hearse
4. new-born infant’s tear
5. marks of weakness, marks of woe
6. hapless soldier’s sigh

Question 3

name 4 quotes from storm on the island

Answer 3

any 4 from:
1. exploding comfortably
2. wizened earth
3. bombarded by the empty air
4. no natural shelter
5. a huge nothing that we fear
6. turned savage

Question 4

name 4 quotes from remains

Answer 4

any 4 from:
1. his bloody life in my bloody hands
2. he’s torn apart by a dozen rounds
3. the drinks and the drugs won’t flush him out
4. but i blink
5. pain itself, the image of agony
6. probably armed, possibly not

Question 5

name 4 quotes from tissue

Answer 5

any 4 from:
1. paper thinned by age or touching
2. never meant to last
3. thinned to be transparent
4. turned into your skin
5. transparent with attention
6. if buildings were paper, i might feel their drift

Question 6

name 4 quotes from the emigree

Answer 6

any 4 from:
1. my memory of it is sunlight-clear
2. it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants
3. my city come to me in its own white plane
4. my city hides behind me
5. i have no passport, there’s no way back at all
6. they accuse me of being dark in their free city

Question 7

name 4 quotes from checking out me history

Answer 7

any 4 from:
1. dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
2. bandage up me eye with me own history
3. blind me to me own identity
4. but now i checking out me own history
5. i carving out me identity
6. but dem never tell me bout

Question 8

name 4 quotes from kamikaze

Answer 8

any 4 from:
1. this was no longer the father we loved
2. he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
3. enough fuel for a one-way journey into history
4. and remembered
5. my mother never spoke again in his presence
6. they treated him as though he no longer existed

Question 9

name 4 quotes from war photographer

Answer 9

any 4 from:
1. with spools of suffering set out on ordered rows
2. all flesh is grass
3. a hundred agonies in black-and-white
4. a half-formed ghost
5. with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
6. fields which don’t explode beneath the feet

Question 10

name 4 quotes from poppies

Answer 10

any 4 from:
1. hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind
2. i pinned one onto your label, crimped petals
3. steeled the softening of my face
4. the world overflowing like a treasure chest
5. without a winter coat or reinforcements
6. leaned against it like a wishbone

Question 11

name 5 poems which are relevant to power of nature

Answer 11

Ozymandias
London
Storm on the island
Tissue
Checking out me history

Question 12

name 4 poems which are relevant to power of nature

Answer 12

Ozymandias
Storm on the island
Tissue
Kamikaze

Question 13

name 4 poems which are relevant to effects of conflict

Answer 13

Remains
Poppies
War photographer
Kamikaze

Question 14

name 2 poems which are relevant to reality of conflict

Answer 14

Remains
War photographer

Question 15

name 4 poems which are relevant to loss and absence

Answer 15

London
Poppies
The emigree
Kamikaze

Question 16

name 5 poems which are relevant to memory

Answer 16

Remains
Poppies
War photographer
The emigree
Kamikaze

Question 17

name 7 poems which are relevant to negative emotions

Answer 17

Ozymandias
London
Storm on the island
Remains
Poppies
War photographer
Checking out me history

Question 18

name 5 poems which are relevant to identity

Answer 18

Poppies
Tissue
The emigree
Kamikaze
Checking out me history

Question 19

name 6 poems which are relevant to individual experiences

Answer 19

London
Remains
Poppies
War photographer
The emigree
Kamikaze