Power And Conflict Poetry

Question 1

What is storm on the island about

Answer 1

About a storm approaching an island and the tension awaiting it

Question 2

List 3 quotes from storm on the island

Answer 2

‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’

‘It’s a huge nothing that we fear’

‘Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’

Question 3

How does storm on the island relate to power and conflict

Answer 3

Power or the weather and the lack of power the residents of the island have.
Conflict with the environment

Question 4

Which poem could you link storm on the island to?

Answer 4

Exposure -they both relate to the monotony of weather

Question 5

What is ozymandias about?

Answer 5

A self obsessed person with loads of slaves who ends up with nothing to show that nothing lasts

Question 6

List 3 quotes from ozymandias

Answer 6

‘Sneer of cold command’

‘The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’

‘I am king of kings look on my work ye mighty and despair’

Question 7

What could you say about the structure of ozymandias

Answer 7

It’s a sonnet (14 lines)

^usually about love so in this case shows self love

Question 8

What could you link ozymandias to

Answer 8

War photographer because they both show lack of power

Question 9

What is war photographer about

Answer 9

A war photographer developing his photos and remembering the brutality of them

Question 10

List 4 quotes from war photographer

Answer 10

‘In his darkroom he is finally alone’

‘All flesh is grass’

‘Spools of suffering’

‘One hundred agonies in black and white’

Question 11

What could you link war photographer

Answer 11

Remains and exposure

Question 12

List 3 quotes from exposure

Answer 12

‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us…’

‘The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow’

‘But nothing happens’

Question 13

List 3 quotes from remains

Answer 13

‘Pain itself, the image of agony’

‘His blood shadow stays on the street’

‘He’s torn apart by a dozen rounds’

Question 14

What are 3 quotes from kamikaze

Answer 14

‘My mother never spoke again’

‘He was no longer the father we loved’

‘He must have wondered which had been the better way to die’

Question 15

How does kamikaze relate to power and conflict

Answer 15

Eternal conflict in his mind about what he should do

Question 16

What could you link kamikaze to

Answer 16

Ozymandias because he is honoured but then resented

Question 17

What type of language is used in remains to make the reader relate to the speaker

Answer 17

Colloquial language. The speaker uses words such as ‘mate’ to make it more relatable to the reader to trigger emotion.

Question 18

Why do we feel such hatred towards ozymandias

Answer 18

Because of his arrogance

Question 19

What word could be used to describe the merciless iced east winds that knive is in exposure

Answer 19

Inexorable and ruthless

Question 20

Why is sneer used in ozymandias

Answer 20

To convey his lack of care and respect to the people below him

Question 21

Why is remains written in the present tense

Answer 21

Because remains is heavily focused in the PTSD the speaker is reliving, having it in the present tense gives us a sense that he is reliving the agony as he retells it

Question 22

What could be said about the quote ‘pain itself the image of agony’ in remains

Answer 22

It’s Almost a reverse personification. One abstract idea becomes real in that dead - or dying - body. The same thing happens with the detail ‘the image of agony’ a tripartite image.

Question 23

What does The tripartite image do in remains

Answer 23

Tripartite image allows the persona narrator to really try to fix on what the body looked like, to recreate the image in our mind.