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Who wrote London?

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William Blake

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Who wrote Ozymandias?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Who wrote Prelude?

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William Wordsworth

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Who wrote Charge of the light Brigade?

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Alfred Tennyson

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Who wrote My Last Duchess?

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Robert Browning

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Who wrote Exposure?

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Wilfred Owen

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Who wrote Bayonet Charge?

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Ted Hughes

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Who wrote Remains?

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Simon Armitage

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Who wrote Poppies?

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Jane Weir

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Who wrote War Photographer?

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Who wrote The Emigree?

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Carol Rumens

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Who wrote Checking Out Me History?

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John Agard

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Who wrote Kamikaze?

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Beatrice Garland

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Who wrote Tissue?

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Imtiaz Dharker

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Who wrote Storm on the Island?

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Seamus Heaney

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Which poem is: ‘I wander thro each _______ street’

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London: ‘I wander thro each chartered street’

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Which poem is: ‘the ____-______ manacles I hear’

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London: ‘The mind-forgd manacles I hear’

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Which poem is: ‘Every _________ church appeals, runs in _____ down _____ walls.’

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London: ‘Every blackning church appeals, runs in blood down palace walls.’

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Which poem is: ‘‘In every ___ of every man,
In every ______ cry of ____
In every voice: in every ___’

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London: ‘In every cry of every man,
In every infants cry of fear
In every voice: in every ban’

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Which poem is: ‘Sink ____ in rock and ____ them with good ____. This ________ earth has never troubled us.’

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Storm on the Island: ‘Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us.’

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Which poem is: ‘So that ___ listen to the thing you ____, forgetting that it _______ your house too.’

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Storm on the Island: ‘So that you listen to the thing you fear, forgetting that it pummels your house too.’

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Which poem is: ‘You might think the ___ is company, exploding __________ down on the city.’

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Storm on the Island: ‘You might think the sea is company, exploding comfortably down on the city.’

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Which poem is: ‘______, it is a huge _______ we fear.’

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Storm on the Island: ‘Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear.’

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Which poem is: ‘_____ that lets the ____ shine through, this is what could ____ things.’

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Tissue: ‘Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things.’

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Which poem is: ‘The back of the ____, where a ___ has written in the names and ________.’

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Tissue: ‘The back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories.’

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Which poem is: ‘Find a way to ____ a grand design with _____ tissue.’

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Tissue: ‘Find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue.’

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Which poem is: ‘And ______ to be ___________ turned into your skin.’

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Tissue: ‘And thinned to be transparent turned into your skin.’

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Which poem is: ‘Her father embarked at _______ with a flask of ____, a ________ sword.’

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Kamikaze: ‘Her father embarked at sunrise, with a flask of water, a samurai sword.’

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Which poem is: ‘(fish are) like a huge ____ waved first one way then the other in a _______ of eight.’

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Kamikaze: ‘(fish are) like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight.’

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Which poem is: ‘The loose _____ of whitebait and once a ____, the dark _____, muscular, ________.’

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Kamikaze: ‘The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.’

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Which poem is: ‘Only we ______ still chattered and laughed’
‘Til _______ we too learned to be _____.’

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Kamikaze: ‘Only we children still chattered and laughed’
‘Til gradually we too learnt to be silent.’

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Which poem is: ‘Sometimes, he must have wondered, which had been the ______ way to ___.’

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Kamikaze: ‘Sometimes, he must have wondered, which had been the better way to die.’

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Which poem is: ‘There once was a _______…. I left it as a _____ but my memory of it is __________ clear.’

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The Emigree: ‘There once was a country… I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear.’

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Which poem is: ‘That ______ vocabulary I carried here like a hollow ____, opens and spills a ________.’

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The Emigree: ‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a vocabulary.’

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Which poem is: ‘It lies down in front of me, _____ as paper; I ____ its hair and love its ____ eyes.’

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The Emigree: ‘It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; I comb its hair and love its shiny eyes.’

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Which poem is: ‘My city _____ behind me. They mutter ____
and my shadow falls as __________ of sunlight.’

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The Emigree: ‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death
and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’

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Which poem is: ‘On another ________, we got sent out.’

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Remains: ‘On another occassion, we got sent out.’

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Which poem is: ‘I see every ____ as it ____ through his life.’

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

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Which poem is: ‘One of my ____ goes by and tosses his ____ back into his body.’

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Remains:’One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body.’

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Which poem is: ‘And the _____ and the ____ won’t flush him out.’

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Remains: ‘And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out.’

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Which poem is: ‘His _____ life in my bloody hands.’

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Remains: ‘His bloody life in my bloody hands.’

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Which poem is: ‘Suddenly he awoke, and was ________-___ in raw-seamed hot ____, his sweat ____.’

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Bayonet Charge: ‘Suddenly he awoke, and was running-raw in raw-seamed hot kahki, his sweat heavy.’

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Which poem is: ‘In what cold ________ of the stars and the ______ Was he the hand ______ that second?’

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Bayonet Charge: ‘In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second?’

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Which poem is: ‘King, honour, ____ dignity, etc, Dropped like _____.’

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Bayonet Charge: ‘King, honour, human dignity, etc, Dropped like luxuries.’

45
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Which poem is: ‘Dem ____ me (x2)
Wha dem ____ to tell me.’

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Checking Out Me History ; ‘Dem tell me (x2)
Wha dem want to tell me.’

46
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Which poem is: ‘______ up me eye with me own ______.’

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Checking Out Me History: ‘Bandage up me eye with me own identity.’

47
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What poem is: ‘Dem tell me bout _________ and 1492
But what happpen to de _____ and de Arawaks too’

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Checking Out Me History : ‘Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492
But what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too.’

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What poem is: ‘I _________ out me own identity.’

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Checking Out Me History : ‘I carving out me own identity.’

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What poem is: ‘That’s my last duchess, ______ on the wall, Looking as if she were ____. I call’

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My Last Duchess: ‘That’s my last duchess, painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call’

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What poem is: ‘But who _____ without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave ________, Then all ____ stopped together.’

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My Last Duchess: ‘But who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands, Then all smiles stopped together.’

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What poem is: ‘Notice, ______, though, ______ a seahorse, thought a rarity, which Claus Of Innbruck cast in ____ for me!’

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My Last Duchess: ‘Notice, Neptune, though, Taming a seahorse, thought a rarity, which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!’

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What poem is: ‘In his ____ room he is finally alone with spools of __________ set out in _________ rows.’

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War Photographer: ‘In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.’

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What poem is: ‘A _____ preparing to intone a ____. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All _____ is grass.’

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War Photographer: ‘A priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phonm Penh. All flesh is grass.’

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What poem is: ‘a half-formed ____. He remembers the ____ of this man’s wife, how he sought ________.’

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War Photographer: ‘a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries of this man’s wife, how he sought approval.’

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What poem is: ‘Half a _____, half a league,
Half a league onward
All in the valley of ____.’

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Charge of the Light Brigade: ‘‘Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death.’

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What poem is: ‘Theirs but to __ and ___.’

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Charge of the Light Brigade: ‘Theirs but to do and die.’

57
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What poem is: ‘while ___ the world _______.’

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Charge of the Light Brigade: ‘while All the world wondered.’ (rhymes with blundered)

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What poem is: ‘Our brains ____ in the merciless ____ east winds that ____ us…
Wearied we keep ____ because the night is _____…’

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Exposure: ‘Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…
Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent…’

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What poem is: ‘Dawn _______ in the east her ___________ army’

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Exposure: ‘Dawn massing the east her melancholy army’

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What poem is: ‘For love of ___ seems dying’

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Exposure: ‘For love of God seems dying.’

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What poem is: ‘Pause over half-known _____. All their eyes are ___. But nothing happens.’

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Exposure: ‘Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice. But nothing happens.’

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What poem is: ‘One summer _________ (led by her) I found
A little ____ tied to a ______ tree.’

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Prelude: ‘One summer evening (led by her) I found
A little boat tied to a willow tree.’

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What poem is: ‘The _______ utmost boundary; far above
Was _______ but the stars and the grey ___.’

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Prelude: ‘The horizons utmost boundary; far above
Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky’

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What poem is: ‘And growing ____ in stature the grim ____
_______ up between me and the stars.’

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Prelude: ‘And growing still in stature the grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars’

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What poem is: ‘But huge and ______ forms, that do not ____ like living men, moved slowly through the mind. By day, and were a _______ to my dreams.’

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Prelude: ‘But huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind. By day and were a trouble to my dreams.’

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What poem is: ‘The lone and _____ sands stretched ___ away.’

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Ozymandias: ‘The lone and level sands stretched far away

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What poem is: ‘I met a traveller from an ______ land.’

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Ozymandias :’ I met a traveller from an antique land.’

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