Poetry Quotes

Question 1

Ozymandias

Answer 1

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“Look upon my words ye mighty and despair”
“Of that colossal wreck boundless and bare”

Question 2

London

Answer 2

“I wander through each chartered street”
“In every infants cry of fear”
“And blights with plagues the marriage hearse”

Question 3

The prelude

Answer 3

“One Summer evening (led by her)”
“A troubled pleasure”
“Small circles glittering idly in the moon”
“I struck and struck again”
“With trembling ores I returned”
“Moved slowly through the mind by day and we’re a trouble to my dreams”

Question 4

My last duchess

Answer 4

“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
“Will’t please you sit and look at her”
“And her looks went everywhere”
“My gift of a 900-year-old name”
“Cast in bronze for me”

Question 5

Charge of the light brigade

Answer 5

“Half a league, half a league, half a league”
“All in the valley of death”
“Not tho he soldier know”
“Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them”
“Into the mouth of death rode the 600”
“Noble 600”

Question 6

Exposure

Answer 6

“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
“Worried by silence”
“What are we doing here?”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“Is it that we are dying?”
“But nothing happens”

Question 7

Storm on the island

Answer 7

“We are prepared”
“A tragic chorus in a gale”
“Exploding comfortably”
“Turned savage […] bombarded”

Question 8

Remains

Answer 8

“On another occasion”
“Probably armed possibly not”
“So all three of us openfire”
“Sort of inside out”
“His bloody knife in my bloody hands”

Question 9

Poppies

Answer 9

“3 days before Armistice Sunday”
“I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could”
“Play at eskimos like we did when you were little”
“A split second and you were away”
“Released a songbird from its cage”

Question 10

War photographer

Answer 10

“In his dark room he is finally alone”
“He has a job to do” > “he earns his living and they do not care”
“Home again to ordinary pain”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”

Question 11

The Emigrée

Answer 11

“There once was a country…”
“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
“Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it”
“I have no passport”
“My city comes to me on its own white plane”
“They accuse me of being dark in their free city”

Question 12

Checking out me history

Answer 12

“Dem tell me dem tell me”
“Blind me to me own identity”
“Bout Dick Whittington and he cat”
“Dem never tell me bout nanny de maroon”
“Dem tell me what dem want to tell me”

Question 13

Kamikaze

Answer 13

“A one way journey into history”
“Recounting it later to her children”
“The dark shoals of fishes [...] swivelled towards the sun”
“Yes Grandfather’s boat”
“My mother never spoke again”

Question 14

Bayonet Charge

Answer 14

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest”
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations”
“Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”

Question 15

Tissue

Answer 15

“Paper that lets the light shine through”
“The kind you find in well used books”
“Pages stroked and turned transparent with attention”
“If buildings were like paper I might feel their drift”
“Maps too the sun shins through their […] mountain folds”
“Like paper kites”
“With living tissue raised a structure never meant to last”
“Turned into your skin”