Poetry Anthology

Question 1

Ozymandias

Answer 1

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
 “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
 “sneer of cold command”
“king of kings”
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”

Question 2

London

Answer 2

“I wander through each chartered street”
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“chimney sweeper’s cry...hapless soldier’s sigh”
“plagues the marriage hearse”

Question 3

Prelude

Answer 3

“One summer evening (led by her)”
“troubled pleasure”
“a huge peak, black and huge”
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”

Question 4

The Charge of the Flight Brigade

Answer 4

“valley of death”
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
“jaws of Death/...mouth of Hell”
“someone had blunder’d”
“Noble six hundred”

Question 5

Exposure

Answer 5

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
“But nothing happens”
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
“we turn back to our dying”
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”

Question 6

Storm on the Island

Answer 6

“We are prepared”
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage” “exploding comfortably”
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter” “We are bombarded by the empty air”