poetry quotes

Question 1

Ozymandias

• cold
• collosal
• shattered

Answer 1

“sneer of cold command”
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”

Question 2

London

• street
• mind
• chimney

Answer 2

“I wander through each chartered street”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”

Question 3

Extract from The Prelude

• huge
• darkness
• pleasure

Answer 3

“a huge peak, black and huge”
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank
desertion”
“troubled pleasure”

Question 4

My Last Duchess

• command
• impressed
• curtain

Answer 4

“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
“Too easily impressed,”
“The curtain I have drawn for you”

Question 5

The Charge of the light Brigade

• mr bruff rap
• died
• wales valley

Answer 5

“someone had blunder’d”
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
“valley of death”

Question 6

Exposure

• knife
• fingers
• ranks

Answer 6

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that
knive us…”
Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
ranks on shivering ranks of grey,

Question 7

Storm on the Island

• cat
• bomb
• air

Answer 7

“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“We are bombarded by the empty air”

Question 8

Bayonet Charge

• winded
• crying
• yellow

Answer 8

“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“
“patriotic tear”
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

Question 9

Remains

• before
• weapons
• blood

Answer 9

“On another occasion”
“probably armed, possibly not”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

Question 10

poppies

• playground
• bird
• treasure chest

Answer 10

“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the
wind”
“released a song bird from its cage”
“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”