Poetry (8-15)

Question 1

Storm on the Island (SOTI) author

Answer 1

Seamus Heaney

Question 2

SOTI context

Answer 2

Title starts with STORMONT part of Nothern Ireland where fighting happened and then peace agreed after poem was written
Britain sought to exploit Irish Catholics

Question 3

SOTI form

Answer 3

No rhyme, serious, rigid line length, set before the storm

Lots of enjambment to sound conversational

Question 4

SOTI quotes

Answer 4

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
We are prepared
Spits like a tame cat / turned savage
Exploding comfortably
We are bombarded by the empty air

Question 5

Ozymandias (ozy) author

Answer 5

Percy Bysshe Shelley (MAN)

Question 6

London author

Answer 6

William Blake

Question 7

Extract from the prelude author

Answer 7

William Wordsworth

Question 8

My Last Duchess author

Answer 8

Robert Browning

Question 9

Tissue author

Answer 9

Imtiaz Dharkar

Question 10

The Emigree author

Answer 10

Carol Rumens

Question 11

Checking Out Me History author

Answer 11

John Agard

Question 12

Ozy quotes

Answer 12

A traveller from an antique land
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
The lone and level sands

Question 13

Prelude quotes

Answer 13

One summer evening (led by her) I found
Troubled pleasure
lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake
a huge peak, black and huge
Upreared its head, I struck and struck again
There hung a darkness, call it solitude, Or blank desertion

Question 14

MLD quotes

Answer 14

my last Duchess
perhaps Fra Pandolf chanced to say “Her mantle laps Over my lady’s wrist too much”
Half-flush that dies along her throat
My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name
I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together
Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse

Question 15

London quotes

Answer 15

I wander through each chartered street
In every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of fear
Every black’ning church appalls
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse
And the hapless soldier’s sigh

Question 16

Ozy context part 1 (literal)

Answer 16

Published in 1918 part of romantic (nature) movement 1780-1830
Imagination + emotion are powerful + precious, must value nature
Ozymandias is Ancient Greek name for Egyptian pharaoh rameses II
Critiques how rameses thought it would last forever
Individual freedom is precious but too often stifled, often by rules and governments, anti-establishment

Question 17

Ozy metaphorical context

Answer 17

Napoleon Bonaparte
Early 1800, had an empire spanning most of Europe, claimed himself as emperor in 1804
1815- defeated at the battle of Waterloo by Wellington, expelled to a small island, died aged 51
Also critiques him, rule and power can’t last forever

Question 18

London context

Answer 18

London in 1794, poverty, child labour, smog, war with France
Part of anthology called tales of innocence (naive poems) and experience (negative) this was the only one with no innocence
Politically radical, inspired by French Revolution giving people power
Written in the style of a nursery rhyme with illustrations, memorable

Question 19

Prelude context part 1 (Wordsworth)

Answer 19

Born in the Lake District, influenced his writing
Went on a walking tour of Europe, saw French Revolution
Had 6 children between 2 wives after the first died, 2 children died 1812, another 1847, couldn’t bring himself to write poetry after this
Poet laureate in 1843
Romantic period from romanticism period

Question 20

Prelude context (poem)

Answer 20

Inspired by French Revolution, hated monarchy, loved nature
Viewed as a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment
Long autobiographical poem in 14 sections, first written in 1798, published by his wife 3 months after he died in 1880
Coming of age, coming into adult maturity

Question 21

MLD context

Answer 21

Based on duke of Ferrara who was rumoured to have poisoned his 17 year old wife in the 16th century
Set 3 years after, showing an emissary from count Tyrol his art, wanted to marry counts daughter
Browning was inspired by romantic poets and Italian Renaissance

Question 22

Tissue context

Answer 22

Dharkars family moved to Glasgow
Husband died in 2009 after 11 years of cancer
Deceived herself as a “Scottish Muslim Calvanist” adopted by India and named into wales
Nothing lasts forever shouldn’t forget our heritage
Clear reference to 9/11, she is Muslim and they faced a lot of backlash

Question 23

Emigree context

Answer 23

Born in south London, also published translations of Russian poems, has a fascination with elsewhere, the poem deals with a land that is permanently elsewhere
Heavily links to asylum and elsewhere, not sure why the speaker (NOT HER) left the place
Emigree is a woman who left her own country for political reasons

Question 24

Checking out me history context

Answer 24

Born in 1949 in Guyana, a British colony
Moved to Britain in 1977 and sees the culture as an insider and outsider
Guyana had spoken Arawak but Britain introduced their policies, including the education system
Complaining at how it was too based on our history

Question 25

Ozy form

Answer 25

Structured as a framed narrative: a story about someone telling them a story, shows how framed and distant he is
Juxtaposes to create irony, tells them to look on his works but there are none
Semantic field of emptiness and isolation, tells us how power will always go away, particularly if you are arrogant about it

Question 26

London form

Answer 26

Rigid structure, quatrains, ABAB rhyme scheme, shows how rigid and ordered society was, four beats per line
Four stanzas offer snapshots of different parts of the city all show a negative aspect
Sounds like a nursery rhyme with illustrations, designed to be memorable

Question 27

Prelude structure

Answer 27

Complete story, power of memory affects him
First person negative, sounds personal to give us an insight
Caesura and enjambment, no rhythm, sounds like regular speech
Uses blank verse- irregular iambic pentameter, typically used for serious issues
Epic poem

Question 28

Prelude 3 sections

Answer 28

S1: light and carefree tone
S2: Volta, sees the big mountain, dark and more fearful, power of memory
S3: narrator reflects on how it has changed him

Question 29

MLD form

Answer 29

Dramatic monologue: set out as a speech, one character at a particular moment in a story, adds immediacy
Perfect iambic pentameter- perfectly ordered, nothing changes
Rhyming couplets show the order of it all, tight couple like he wants them to be
Caesura and enjambment- shows how we couldn’t control his wife

Question 30

Tissue form

Answer 30

Motif of light shining through
Rigid quatrains, like how we want to structure the earthu
One line stanza highlights how she believes we can change
Lots of enjambment to reinforce light shining through
Buildings to maps to money

Question 31

Emigree structure

Answer 31

2 stanzas of 8 show the rigidity of the new oppressed city
Last stanza has 9 showing how there is a chance to change
Sounds parental (like poppies) “ I comb its hair and love its shining eyes
Ends with “sunlight” to emphasise the repeated motif and show that the positive view she has of the place overtakes the negative events

Question 32

Checking out me history form

Answer 32

Dramatic monologue, variations in spelling to show Caribbean dialect and importance of carving out his own identity e.g. repeated “dem tell me”
Rhymes to mock nursery rhymes and the childish things we learn
Semantic fields of hope, bravery, courage in black history sections
3 stanzas in italics about his own historic, shorter lines as he knows less

Question 33

Ozy form part 2

Answer 33

Line 10 “I am ozymandias, king of kings” breaks iambic pentameter which could be used to show that rameses thinks he is above rules
A sonnet mocking rameses’ love for himself

Question 34

Tissue quotes

Answer 34

Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things
Who was born to who, the height and weight, who died where and how
Maps too, the sun shines through
An architect could use all this, place layer over layer
raise a structure never meant to last

Question 35

Emigree quotes

Answer 35

I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear
The worst news I receive of it cannot break /my original view
The child’s vocabulary I carried here, like a hollow doll
my city comes to me in its own white plane
They accuse me of absence, they circle me, they accuse me of being dark in their free city. My city hides behind me. They mutter death and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

Question 36

Checking Out Me History quotes

Answer 36

Dem tell me, dem tell me, what they want to tell me
Bandage up me eye with me own history, blind me to me own identity
and de cow who jump over the moon. Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon
I carving out me identity