Poetry quotes

Question 1

quotes for Poppies

Answer 1

• “Gelled blackthorns of your hair”
• “Later a single dove flew from the pear tree and this is where it led me”
• “Threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest”

Question 2

quotes for Kamikaze

Answer 2

• “The loose silver of whitebait once a tuna, the dark prince, dangerous, muscular”
• “Like a flag that first waved one way then the other in a figure of eight”
• “Built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”

Question 3

quotes for TCOTLB

Answer 3

• “Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon behind them”
• “Into the valley of death / Rode the six hundred”
• “Storm’d and shot at with shell”

Question 4

quotes for Bayonet Charge

Answer 4

• “Suddenly he awoke and was running-raw / In raw seamed hot khaki”
• “In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations was he the hand pointing that second?”
• “Then the slot-slashed furrow threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle”

Question 5

quotes for the Emigree

Answer 5

• “Branded by the impression of sunlight”
• “Time rolls its tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”
• “Banned by the state but I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.”

Question 6

quotes for Checking out me History

Answer 6

• “A healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise”
• “Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat / Dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat”
• “I carving out me identity”

Question 7

quotes for Tissue

Answer 7

• “What was paid by credit cards fly our lives like paper kites”
• “Pages smoothed and stroked turned transparent with attention”
• “Maps too. The sunlight shines through their borders”

Question 8

quote for The extract from, The Prelude

Answer 8

• “My boat went heaving through the water like a swan”
• “A huge peak, black and huge […] upreared it’s head”
• “No familiar shapes, no pleasant images of trees […] no colours of greenfields”

Question 9

quotes for Storm on The Island

Answer 9

• “We are prepared: we build our houses squat”
• “Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
• “Pummels your house”

Question 10

quotes for War Photographer

Answer 10

• “the readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
• “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
• “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”

Question 11

quotes for My Last Duchess

Answer 11

• “Notice Neptune though taming a sea-horse”
• “As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
• “Then all smiles stopped together”

Question 12

quotes for Exposure

Answer 12

• “Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us…”
• “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air”
• “The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp, pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice”

Question 13

quotes for Remains

Answer 13

• “his bloody life in my bloody hands”
• “I swear i see every round as it rip through his life”
• “Not left for the dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land”

Question 14

quotes for Ozymandias

Answer 14

• “My name is Omzymandias, king of kings”
• “half sunk, a shatt’rd visage lies”
• “and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”

Question 15

quotes for London

Answer 15

• ““Near where the charter’d Thames does flow”
• “Every black’ning church appals”
• “Runs in blood down palace walls”