Poetry

Question 1

Ozymandias

Answer 1

1. Wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.
2. Yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.
3. “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings,
   look on my works, ye mighty and despair?

Question 2

London

Answer 2

1. The mind-forged manacles.
2. Runs in blood down palace walls.
3. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

Question 3

The Prelude

Answer 3

1. Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on.
2. The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge.
3. Of sea or sky. no colours of green fields.

Question 4

My Last Duchess

Answer 4

1. The depth and passion of its earnest glance.
2. Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er she looked on.
3. My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift.

Question 5

The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Answer 5

1. Valley of death.
2. Jaws of death, into the mouth of Hell.
3. Noble six hundred.

Question 6

Exposure

Answer 6

1. The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow.
2. Child, or field, or fruit.
3. All their eyes are ice.

Question 7

Storm On The Island

Answer 7

1. Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus gale.
2. The very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage.
3. We are bombarded by the empty air.

Question 8

Bayonet Charge

Answer 8

1. The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye.
2. Like a man who has jumped up in the dark.
3. King, honour, human dignity……. dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm.

Question 9

Remains

Answer 9

1. Probably armed, possibly not.
2. Rips through his life.
3. Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land.

Question 10

Poppies

Answer 10

1. I resisted the impulse.
2. Released a song bird from it’s cage.
3. Tucks, darts, pleats.

Question 11

War Photographer

Answer 11

1. With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
2. Nightmare heat.
3. The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears.

Question 12

Tissue

Answer 12

1. Paper thinned by age or touching.
2. And never wish to build again with brick.
3. Raise a structure never meant to last.

Question 13

The Émigré

Answer 13

1. My original view, the bright, filled paperweights.
2. Like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar.
3. It tastes of sunlight.

Question 14

Checking Out Me History

Answer 14

1. Bandage up me eye with me own history, blind me to me own identity.
2. Dem tell me (repeated).
3. But now I checking out me own history, I carving out me identity.

Question 15

Kamikaze

Answer 15

1. Huge flag waved first one way.
2. Turbulent inrush of breakers.
3. Only we children still chattered and laughed.