Poetry Anthology

Question 1

Ozymandias first line

Answer 1

I met a traveller from an antique land

Question 2

Ozymandias last line

Answer 2

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Question 3

London first line

Answer 3

I wander through each chartered street

Question 4

London last line

Answer 4

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

Question 5

Extract from, The Prelude first line

Answer 5

One summer evening (led by her) I found

Question 6

Extract from, The Prelude last line

Answer 6

By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.

Question 7

My Last Duchess first line

Answer 7

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Question 8

My Last Duchess last line

Answer 8

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

Question 9

My last Duchess structure

Answer 9

• circular
• dramatic monologue, narrative poem
• first person

Question 10

Extract from, The Prelude structure

Answer 10

Nothing snazzy, 3 sections, regular rhythm talking to us, no rhyme

Question 11

London structure

Answer 11

4 stanzas, 4 lines each, dramatic monologue, structure may show relentlessness of sadness and how it’s repeats on and on, and may also show through how planned it is that the institutions continue the problem, regular rhyme scheme

Question 12

Ozymandias structure

Answer 12

Sonnet, irregular rhyme scheme showing how easily things destroyed, first person anecdotal

Question 13

The Charge of the Light Brigade first line

Answer 13

Half a league, half a league

Question 14

Charge of the light brigade last line

Answer 14

Noble six hundred!

Question 15

Exposure first line

Answer 15

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knives us…

Question 16

Exposure last line

Answer 16

But nothing happens.

Question 17

Storm on the Island first line

Answer 17

We are prepared: we build our houses squat.

Question 18

Storm on the island last line

Answer 18

Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear.

Question 19

Bayonet Charge first line

Answer 19

Suddenly, he awoke and was running - raw

Question 20

Bayonet charge last line

Answer 20

His terror’s touchy dynamite.

Question 21

Remains first line

Answer 21

On another occasion, we get sent out

Question 22

Remains last line

Answer 22

his bloody life in my bloody hands.

Question 23

Poppies first line

Answer 23

Three days before Armistice Sunday

Question 24

Poppies last line

Answer 24

your playground voice catching on the wind.

Question 25

War Photographer first line

Answer 25

In his darkroom he is finally alone

Question 26

War Photographer last line

Answer 26

he earns his living and they do not care.

Question 27

Tissue first line

Answer 27

Paper that lets the light

Question 28

Tissue last line

Answer 28

turned into your skin.

Question 29

The Emigrée first line

Answer 29

There once was a country … I left it as a child

Question 30

The emigrée last line

Answer 30

and my

Question 31

Check out me history first line

Answer 31

Dem tell me

Question 32

Check out me history last line

Answer 32

I carved out me identity

Question 33

Kamikaze first line

Answer 33

Her father embarked at sunrise

Question 34

Kamikaze last line

Answer 34

which had been the better way to die

Question 35

The Charge of the Light Brigade structure

Answer 35

6 stanzas, a few rhymes, repetition

Question 36

Exposure structure

Answer 36

8 stanzas, same structure of 5 lines, each ending with a half line, order is controlled like they’re following orders and repetitiveness. Has para-rhyme causing discomfort as it doesn’t quite flow (interrupts)

Question 37

Storm on the Island structure

Answer 37

No stanzas, iambic pentameter except on last line showing relfect on events, overwhelmed by events even though it’s over.

Question 38

Bayonet charge structure

Answer 38

3 stanzas, their person but still shows what it’s like in his head, no rhyme scheme shows lack of control making it seem more natural with no time to consider due to pace

Question 39

Remains structure

Answer 39

8 stanzas, first 7 are 4 lines last is 2 lines, fairly nonchalant toll stanza 5 with mood shift, long clause across the last 3 stanzas make reader out of breath and uncomfortable want it to end like he does

Question 40

Poppies structure

Answer 40

4 stanzas, no rhymes, foreshadowing, semantic field of textiles

Question 41

War Photographer structure

Answer 41

Third person so doesn’t show him complaining, 4 stanzas each 6 limes, organised like his spools creating order out of chaos, circular structure as cycle never ends

Question 42

Tissue structure

Answer 42

10 stanzas each 4 lines expect last one with a single line stanza drawing focus, order shows repetitiveness of life

Question 43

The Emigrée structure

Answer 43

3 stanzas each 8 lines last 9 lines, starts like a tale

Question 44

Checking out me history structure

Answer 44

Uses free verse form, uses rythms and dialects of Caribbean b

Question 44

Checking out me history structure

Answer 44

Uses free verse form, uses rythms and dialects of Caribbean b

Question 45

Kamikaze structure

Answer 45

7 stanzas each with 6 lines, like the structure of a pilot except he broke away from it but his family stuff tire isn’t broken. Third season to ditatch from story and family repsonsi still acted like he wasresponsibilities, first person talking to her children and showing closeness to father