Poetry

Question 1

Ozymandias key quotes: (3)

Answer 1

Could have:
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“A sneer of cold command”
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my work ye mighty and despair”
“Nothing beside remains”
“Round the decay of that colossal guest, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away”

Question 2

How is Ozymandias written?

Answer 2

Written in one long stanza. Lots of enjambment and caesura.

Question 3

London key quotes: (3)

Answer 3

“I wonder through each charted street, near where the charted thames does flow”
“And mark in every face i meet”
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear”
“In every voice, in every ban, the mind forged manacles i hear”
“How the chimney sweeper’s cry”
“Every black’ning church appals”
“Hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls”
“Through midnight streets i hear how the youthful harlots curse”
“Blasts the new born infants tear, and blights with plagues the marriage hearse”

Question 4

London form and structure:

Answer 4

Dramatic monologue,
1st person narrator speaks passionately,
ABAB rhyme scheme throughout,
Regular rhythm to show consistency of london

Question 5

My last duchess key quotes:

Answer 5

“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
“Will’t you please sit and look at her”
“Since none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you, but i”
“Sir twas not her husbands presence only, called that spot of joy into the duchess’ cheeks”
“Half flush that dies along her throat”
“My gift of a nine hundred years old name with anybody’s gift”

Question 6

My last duchess form:

Answer 6

In dramatic monologue,
Rhyming couplets,
Written in iambic pentameter,
All one long stanza

Question 7

The prelude key quotes:

Answer 7

“One summer evening (led by her)”
“A little boat tied to a willow tree”
“Its usual home”
“Straight i unloosened her chain, and stepping in pushed from the shore”
“It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”
“The horizon’s utmost boundary; far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
“She was an elfin pinnace”
“The horizon’s bound, black and huge”
“And measured motion like a living thing strode after me”
“A dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being”
“There hung a darkness, call it solitude”
“No pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky”
“But huge and mighty forms, that don’t live like living men”

Question 8

The prelude form/structure:

Answer 8

•1st person narrative
• use fo black verse and iambic pentameter
• 3 main sections
1) confident, relaxed
2) distinct change (Volta) line 22 when mountain appears
3) reflecting on what happened to him

Question 9

The charge of the light brigade key quotes:

Answer 9

"Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards"
"All in the valley if death"
"Into the valley of death"
"Rode the six hundred"
"Was there a man dismay'd"
"Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them"
"Shot and shell"
"Jaws of death" 
"Mouth of hell"
"Flash'd all their sabres bare, flash'd as they turned in air sabring the gunners there"
"All the world wonder'd"
"Sabre-stroked shatter'd and sunder'd"
"Volley'd and thunder'd"
"When can their glory fade?"
"O wild the charge they made!"
"Honour the charge they made!"
"Honour the light brigade"
"Noble six hundred"

Question 10

The charge of the light brigade form/structure:

Answer 10

Written as a ballad- often a tragic ending, often with an ABAB rhyme scheme

Question 11

Exposure key quotes:

Answer 11

“In the merciless iced east wings that knive us…”
“But nothing happens”
“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles”
“Like a dull rumour of some other war”
“What are we doing here?”
“The poignant misery of dawn”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”

Question 12

Exposure form/structure:

Answer 12

• 1st person plural
• Present tense
• Half rhymes in a scheme ABBAC
• 8 stanzas but not much progression

Question 13

Storm on the island key quotes:

Answer 13

• “We are prepared: we build our houses squat”
• “Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate.”
• “Wizened earth has never troubled us”
• “There are no stacks or stooks that can be lost”
• “Tragic chorus in the rain”
• “It begins, the flung spray hits”
• “Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
• “Wind dives and strafes invisibly”
• “We are bombarded by the empty air”
• “Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”

Question 14

Storm on the island form/structure:

Answer 14

• Written in blank first (modern speech) like a general conversation
• Sturdy form contrasting to the island
• Security becomes fear, Volta at (line 14)
• Use of sounds to show fear and hopelessness