Poetry Revision

Question 1

Who wrote Extract from the Prelude?

Answer 1

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Question 2

What is the Context of Extract from the Prelude?

Answer 2

He was born in the Lake District, Therefore being very close to nature. Also, his mum died when he was young meaning that he relied on ‘nature’ to keep jim company

Question 3

What quote in Extract from the Prelude links with power?

Answer 3

‘Purpose of its own’

Question 4

What quote in Extract from the Prelude links with relationships?

Answer 4

‘One summer evening (led by her)’

‘Straight I unloosed her chain’

Question 5

What quote in Extract from the Prelude links with nature?

Answer 5

‘And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice of mountain-echoes did my boat move on’

Question 6

Who wrote Half Caste?

Answer 6

John Agard (1949-)

Question 7

What is the context of Half Caste?

Answer 7

John Agard was born in Guyana in the Caribbean. He moved to the UK in the late 1970’s where he began educating people about Caribbean culture. He often uses his own Caribbean style of speaking in his poems to give full expression to the voice of his homeland

Question 8

What quote in Half Caste links with anger?

Answer 8

‘Explain yuself’

Question 9

What quote in Half Caste links with nature?

Answer 9

‘well in dat case england weather nearly always half-caste’

‘when you say half-caste yu mean when light an shadow mix in de sky is a half-caste weather’

Question 10

What quote in Half Caste links with suspense?

Answer 10

‘An I will tell yu de other half of my story’

Question 11

Who wrote No Problem?

Answer 11

Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-)

Question 12

What is the context in No Problem?

Answer 12

Zephaniah was born in the ‘Jamiacan capital of Europe’ known as Handsworth, Birmingham. As a child he suffered from abuse based on the racial stereotyping prevalent in the 1960’s and 70’s. He also suffered from racial abuse on the terraces at Aston Villa Football Club. He was dyslexic and was sent to school but left at 13 unable to read or write. He later spent some time in jail for burglary.

Question 13

What quote in No Problem links with anger?

Answer 13

‘I am not de problem’

Question 14

What quote in No Problem links with relationships?

Answer 14

‘Sum of me best friends are white’

Question 15

What quote in No Problem links with class?

Answer 15

‘If yu give I a chance’

‘I am born academic But dey got me on de run Now I am branded athletic’

Question 16

Who wrote Belfast Confetti?

Answer 16

Ciaran Carson (1948-)

Question 17

What is the context in Belfast Confetti?

Answer 17

Ciaran Carson is from Northern Ireland, born into an irish-speaking family. He has a deep interest in politics. He lived through what became to be known as the ‘troubles’. This was the era of the Irish nationalist terrorism that marked UK social and political life from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. During that time organisations such as IRA fought to end the British rule over Northern Ireland.

Question 18

What quote in Belfast Confetti links with nature?

Answer 18

‘It was raining exclamation marks’

Question 19

What quote in Belfast Confetti links with fear?

Answer 19

‘All the alleyways and side streets blocked with stops and colons’

‘Nuts, bolts, nails, car keys.’

‘Why can’t I escape? Every move is punctuated.’

Question 20

What quote in Belfast Confetti links with suspense?

Answer 20

‘My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.’

Question 21

Who wrote Exposure?

Answer 21

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Question 22

What is the context in Exposure?

Answer 22

WW1 began in 1914 and at first it was predicted to end swiftly. However, as both side dug trenches across France and Belgium, the opposing sides became locked in stalemate that neither side could break. By the winter of 1917 both sides had sustained massive losses and extreme cold weather made the misery even worse. It was said to be the coldest winter in living memory. As a result the soldiers suffered from many illnesses, not because of the war but because of the weather.

Question 23

What quote in Exposure links with nature?

Answer 23

‘We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy’

‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’

Question 24

What quote in Exposure links with death?

Answer 24

‘Slowly our ghosts drag home’

Question 25

What quote in Exposure links with power?

Answer 25

‘For God’s invincible spring our love is made afraid’