poetry cluster 1

Question 1

bayonet charge - pain and fear

Answer 1

and crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide

Question 2

bayonet charge - blind and irrational

Answer 2

like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs

Question 3

bayonet charge - disables him

Answer 3

rifle as numb as a smashed arm

Question 4

bayonet charge - violent imagery

Answer 4

bullets smacking the belly out of the air

Question 5

bayonet charge - survival

Answer 5

king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries

Question 6

bayonet charge - fear

Answer 6

his terrors touchy dynamite

Question 7

charge of the light brigade - surrounded

Answer 7

cannon to the right of them
cannon to the left of them
cannon in front of them

Question 8

charge of the light brigade - no choice

Answer 8

theirs but to do and die

Question 9

charge of the light brigade - lives lost

Answer 9

all that was left, left of the six hundred

Question 10

charge of the light brigade - galloping

Answer 10

half a league, half a league, half a league onward

++each line has about 5-6 beats that also replicate galloping

dactylic dimeter

Question 11

charge of the light brigade - pslam 23

Answer 11

into the valley of death

Question 12

war photographer - entertainment

Answer 12

they do not care

Question 13

war photographer - regularity + order

Answer 13

with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Question 14

war photographer - ptsd

Answer 14

beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now

Question 15

war photographer - dead

Answer 15

a half formed ghost

Question 16

war photographer - pain

Answer 16

a hundred agonies in black and white

Question 17

remains - guilt

Answer 17

probably armed, possibly not

REPEATED

Question 18

remains - murder

Answer 18

his bloody life in my bloody hands

Question 19

remains - sleep

Answer 19

sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not

Question 20

remains - drink

Answer 20

and the drink and the drugs wont flush him out

Question 21

remains - group

Answer 21

three of a kind all letting fly

Question 22

exposure - wind

Answer 22

our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us

Question 23

exposure - snow

Answer 23

less deadly then the air that shudders black snow

Question 24

exposure - death

Answer 24

is it that we are dying?

Question 25

exposure - preoccupied

Answer 25

we turn back to our dying

Question 26

ozymandias - legs

Answer 26

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Question 27

ozymandias - visage

Answer 27

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

Question 28

ozymandias - command

Answer 28

sneer of cold command

Question 29

ozymandias - king

Answer 29

king of kings

Question 30

ozymandias - wreck

Answer 30

colossal wreck, boundless and bare

Question 31

london - owned

Answer 31

near where the chartered thames does flow

Question 32

london - marks

Answer 32

marks of weakness, marks of woe

Question 33

london - trapped

Answer 33

The mind-forged manacles I hear

Question 34

london - pain

Answer 34

chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh

Question 35

london - end of good

Answer 35

plagues the marriage hearse

Question 36

the prelude - opening

Answer 36

One summer evening (led by her)

Question 37

the prelude - size

Answer 37

a huge peak, black and huge

Question 38

the prelude - darkness

Answer 38

there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion

Question 39

the prelude -

Answer 39

11

Question 40

the prelude -

Answer 40

11

Question 41

storm on the island - preparation

Answer 41

we are prepared

Question 42

storm on the island - savage

Answer 42

sits like a tamed cat turned savage

Question 43

storm on the island - bombard

Answer 43

we are bombarded by the empty air

Question 44

london - what is meat by ‘chartered’

Answer 44

owned and regulated

Question 45

london - what is the rhyme pattern ? what does is represent ?

Answer 45

abab - walking

Question 46

my last duchess - rhyme

Answer 46

aa bb cc dd etc.

the rigid rhyme shows the control and power the speaker has

Question 47

my last duchess - thank

Answer 47

thanked
Somehow… as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift

Question 48

my last duchess - command

Answer 48

I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together

Question 49

my last duchess - alive

Answer 49

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive

Question 50

my last duchess - pleased easily

Answer 50

She had A heart—how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed

the growing indication is her attention went where it shouldn’t have - shows manipulation of the truth POWER

‘frau’ painted it - monk - no relationship

Question 51

my last duchess - repetition of alive

Answer 51

There she stands / As if alive

shows she is dead and makes the reader suspicious

Question 52

kamikaze - opening

Answer 52

he embarked at sunrise

dramatic monologue - hook

sunrise + embark = adventure but title hints at death

sunrise - japan ‘land of the rising sun’ – patriotic/honour

Question 53

kamikaze - hair

Answer 53

a shaved head full of powerful incantations

implies he is under a spell - influenced by propaganda ? brainwashed ?

shaved - removal of identity

Question 54

kamikaze - known

Answer 54

enough for a one way journey to history

context - he is not expected to return

one way - no going back, euphemism for suicide

history - makes it seem honourable

Question 55

kamikaze - switch

Answer 55

but half-way there, she thought recounting it to her children

but - intro to hesitation signifies change

enjambment creates suspense - represents changed mind

he has no voice - heard from daughter

relaxed tone - break signals pause - disconnection from father

Question 56

kamikaze - reasoning

Answer 56

looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting

sympathy - bunting seems child like

ironic - homely instead of war - contradiction

bunting - colour juxtaposes death

Question 57

kamikaze - thought

Answer 57

and sometimes he must have wondered which had been the better way to die

doesn’t know the answer - shows his isolation

tragic ending

Question 58

kamikaze structure

Answer 58

•six lines per stanza

• free verse
• enjambment

lack tight control - represents freedom of expression the pilot wanted

Question 59

kamikaze natural link

Answer 59

a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.

most powerful character in the poem is a fish

threatening tense and powerful image

first full stop - importance

true power belongs to nature - reasoning

Question 60

kamikaze garland context

Answer 60

interest in the motivation of people to give up their lives

Question 61

context kamikaze

Answer 61

• suicide missions

* honourable sacrifice

Question 62

kamikaze link to conflict

Answer 62

personal and national

pull between impulses

cultural expectation vs inner conscience

Question 63

kamikaze natural image

Answer 63

flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun

sibilance - energy and movement reflecting natural wonder - why should he deny himself or others the pleasure of nature

Question 64

kamikaze sun

Answer 64

he embarked at sunrise

link to japan - the land of the rising son

military metaphor - power of man and of nature

Question 65

kamikaze flags

Answer 65

‘arching in swathes like a huge flag’

‘rising sun’

simile shows the pilots mindset - thinks of flag

brainwashed to see everything through the lens of national service and pride associated with it