power and conflict poetry

Question 1

Who is the author of ‘Ozymandias’?

Answer 1

Shelley

Question 2

What does the traveler describe in the poem?

Answer 2

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Question 3

What features are mentioned about the face of the statue?

Answer 3

Wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

Question 4

What is described as ‘the colossal wreck’?

Answer 4

The remains of the statue in a desolate landscape

Question 5

What surrounds the colossal wreck?

Answer 5

The lone and level sands stretch far away

Question 6

What are the ‘marks’ mentioned in Blake’s poem?

Answer 6

Marks of weakness, marks of woe

This line reflects the suffering and despair present in society.

Question 7

What does Blake say about the church?

Answer 7

Every black’ning church appalls

This line criticizes the church for its moral decay.

Question 8

What imagery is used to describe the impact of societal issues on family?

Answer 8

..the new-born infant’s tear, //And blights with plagues the marriage hearse

This imagery highlights the sorrow affecting both birth and death.

Question 9

What is the opening line of ‘My Last Duchess’?

Answer 9

‘That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, //Looking as if she were alive.’

Question 10

How does the speaker describe the Duchess’s heart?

Answer 10

‘She had// A heart – how shall I say? Too soon made glad, // Too easily impressed; ..’

Question 11

What does the speaker imply about the Duchess’s smile?

Answer 11

‘Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;// Then all smiles stopped together’

Question 12

What was cast in bronze for the speaker?

Answer 12

‘ ..cast in bronze for me!’

Question 13

The Charge of the Light Brigade – Tennyson

Question 14

‘Half a league

Answer 14

half a league// Half a league onward

Question 15

‘Into the jaws of Death

Answer 15

// Into the mouth of Hell’

Question 16

‘Honour the charge they made! // Honour the Light Brigade

Answer 16

// Noble six hundered’

Question 17

Exposure – Owen

Question 18

‘Our brains ache

Answer 18

in the merciless east winds that knive // us ….’

Question 19

‘twitching agonies’

Answer 19

exposure

Question 20

‘cold clockwork’

Answer 20

exposure

Question 21

‘For the love of God seems dying’

Answer 21

exposure

Question 22

‘But nothing happens’

Answer 22

exposure

Question 23

Storm on the Island – Heaney

Question 24

‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’

Answer 24

storm on the island

Question 25

‘..when it blows full //Blast: you know what I mean – leaves and branches // Can raise a tragic chorus’

Answer 25

storm on the island

Question 26

‘Like the tame cat turned savage’

Answer 26

storm on the island

Question 27

‘Strange

Answer 27

it is a huge nothing that we fear.’

Question 28

Bayonet Charge – Hughes

Question 29

‘Suddenly he awoke and was running – raw // In raw seamed hot khaki’

Answer 29

bayonet charge

Question 30

‘He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

Answer 30

//The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye’

Question 31

‘In what cold clockwork of stars and nations // Was he the hand pointing that second?’

Answer 31

bayonet charge

Question 32

‘To get out that blue crackling air // His terrors touchy dynamite’

Answer 32

bayonet charge

Question 33

Remains – Armitage

Question 34

‘On another occasion

Answer 34

we got sent out // to tackle looters raiding a bank’

Question 35

‘probably armed

Answer 35

possibly not.’

Question 36

‘and he’s there on the ground

Answer 36

sort of inside out’

Question 37

‘And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out’

Answer 37

remaind

Question 38

‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’

Answer 38

remains

Question 39

Poppies - Weir

Question 40

‘Spasms of paper red

Answer 40

disrupting a blockade // of yellow bias binding around your blazer’

Question 41

‘All my words // flattened

Answer 41

rolled

Question 42

‘I listened

Answer 42

hoping to hear // your playground voice catching on the wind’

Question 43

War Photographer – Duffy

Question 44

‘In his darkroom he is finally alone // with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.’

Answer 44

war photographer

Question 45

‘He has a jo to do. Solutions slow in trays // beneath his hands

Answer 45

which did not tremble then’

Question 46

‘A hundred agonies in black and white //from which the editor will pick out five of six’

Answer 46

war photographer

Question 47

‘From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where // he earns a living and they do not care’

Answer 47

war photographer

Question 48

The Prelude – Wordsworth

Question 49

‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’

Answer 49

the prelude

Question 50

‘small circles glittering idly in the moon’

Answer 50

the prelude

Question 51

‘a huge peak

Answer 51

black and huge As if with voluntary power instinct upreared its head’

Question 52

‘Back to the covert of the willow tree’

Answer 52

the prelude

Question 53

‘Troubled dreams’

Answer 53

the prelude