Poetry themes and quotes

Question 1

Ozymandias key theme

Answer 1

Human power is meaningless compared to nature and time.

Question 2

Ozymandias quotes

Answer 2

“Lone and level sands”
“Sneer of cold command”

Question 3

London key theme

Answer 3

Suffering due to the abuse of power is never ending. It will remain until people revolt.

Question 4

London quotes

Answer 4

“I wander through each chartered street”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”

Question 5

Extract from the prelude key theme

Answer 5

The arrogance of human assumption of power when nature is superior

Question 6

Extract from the prelude quotes

Answer 6

“It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”
“Huge and mighty forms that do not live like men”

Question 7

My last duchess key theme

Answer 7

His power has led to a paranoia. He controls others because he cant control himself.

Question 8

My last duchess quotes

Answer 8

“She had a heart too soon made glad”
“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together”

Question 9

The charge of the light brigade key themes

Answer 9

The brutality and chaos of war, and how it is glorified.

Question 10

Charge of the light brigade quotes

Answer 10

“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred”
“When can their glory fade?”

Question 11

Exposure key themes

Answer 11

Nature is the strongest enemy. The psychological effect of war.

Question 12

Exposure quotes

Answer 12

“mad gusts tugging on the wire like twitching agonies”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”

Question 13

Storm on the island key themes

Answer 13

Natures danger and violence. Also presents isolation as a fear.

Question 14

Storm on the island quotes

Answer 14

“Branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 15

Bayonet charge key themes

Answer 15

The reality of war. Dehumanisation of soldiers.

Question 16

Bayonet charge quotes

Answer 16

“Listening between the footfalls for the reason of his still running”
“Cold clockwork”

Question 17

Remains key themes

Answer 17

The psychological trauma of war

Question 18

Remains quotes

Answer 18

“On another occasion we get sent out”
“Tosses his guts back into his body”

Question 19

Poppies themes

Answer 19

The grief that comes with memory(for the mother). She is also a victim of conflict.

Question 20

Poppies quotes

Answer 20

“The world overflowing like a treausure chest”
“I released a songbone from its cage”

Question 21

War photographer themes

Answer 21

A sense of duty not being fulfilled. Internal conflict.

Question 22

War photographer quotes

Answer 22

“His hands didnt tremble then but do now”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”

Question 23

Tissue key themes

Answer 23

The futility of human power and possessions

Question 24

Tissue quotes

Answer 24

“credit cards might run our lives like paper kites”
“A grand design with living tissue”

Question 25

Emigree key themes

Answer 25

Child innocence and nostalgia overlooking the war torn aspect of the country

Question 26

Emigree quotes

Answer 26

“It may be at war but i am branded with an image of sunlight”
“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”

Question 27

Checkin out me history key themes

Answer 27

Eurocentric brainwashing. He lost his childhood to the teaching of negative black history.

Question 28

Checkin out me history quotes

Answer 28

“Bandage up me eye with my own history”
“de cow who jump over de moon”

Question 29

Kamikaze key themes

Answer 29

Internal conflict, and conflict between expectations and his reality. Nature is the answer to his problems.

Question 30

Kamikaze quotes

Answer 30

“a shaven head full of powerful incantations”
“Which had been the better way to die”