Poetry

Question 1

Exposure

Answer 1

• “But nothing happens.”
• ”..Twitching agonies of men..”
• “the mad gusts tugging on the wire”
• “the merciless iced east winds that knife us”
  Context: PTSD
  Form: first-person narrative

Question 2

Poppies

Answer 2

• “I want to graze my nose across the tip of your nose”
• “I was brave as I walked with you to the front door”
• “The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch”

Form: Epic

Question 3

Extract from the Prelude

Answer 3

• “Troubled pleasure”
• “(led by her)”
• “a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head”
  Context: PTSD, Instinct (following your desire - danger)
  Form: Epic

Question 4

Class Game

Answer 4

• “Did i drop my unemployment card sitting on your patio”
• “How can you tell what class Im from?”
• “Have I a label on me head, and another on me bum?”

Form: Dramatic Monologue

Question 5

War Photographer

Answer 5

• “I seek out the tragic, the absurd”
• “Sun gilded girls…small girls staggering”
• “dark scream”

Form: Free verse

Question 6

No Problem

Answer 6

• “I am not de problem”
• “Born academic…branded athletic”
• “Sum of me best friends are white”

Form: ABCB Rhyme scheme (two stanzas)