Power and Conflict Poetry

Question 1

war photographer - all flesh is grass

Answer 1

line comes from bible
biblical imagery and metaphor
shows scale of bloodshed and creates greusome image
human life is temporary

Question 2

war photographer - spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Answer 2

metaphor
photographers effort to make sense of something so horrific
contrast between photographers actions and reality of conflict

Question 3

war photographer - running children in nightmare heat

Answer 3

reader to undertand intesity of suffering

children - innocent are affected

Question 4

mld - title

Answer 4

my - wife belonged to him
last - previous or final
duchess - gender, status

Question 5

mld - wilt thou please sit and look at her

Answer 5

posed as question -really a command

rhetorical question - power and pride

Question 6

mld - the curtain i have drawn for you

Answer 6

symbol

he still controls her

Question 7

mld - this grew; i gave commands; then all smiles stopped together

Answer 7

caesura and short words - swiftness, coldness and ruthlessness of his disposal of her
he had his wife killed

Question 8

prelude - one summer evening (led by her)

Answer 8

personification as powerful but benevolent and gentle

Question 9

prelude - small circles glittering idly in the moon

Answer 9

positive images of beauty

nature = awe-inpsiring and magical

Question 10

prelude - a huge peak, black and huge

Answer 10

personified as menacing

black - authority over him

Question 11

prelude - there hung a darkness

Answer 11

dark colour imagery

haunting effect - unable to remove memories

Question 12

coftlb - into the valley of death - into the jaws of death

Answer 12

horrific metaphor
danger and brutal fate
biblical imagery - david vs Goliath in valley of elah

Question 13

coftlb - when can their glory fade?

Answer 13

rhetoric

force to honor them

Question 14

bayonet - suddenly he awoke and was running

Answer 14

in media res

sense of ergency and chaos

Question 15

bayonet - he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

Answer 15

simile
rifle is useless
soldier is vulnerable
foreshadows injury

Question 16

bayonet - sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest

Answer 16

simile and metaphor
soldiers patriotic ideals are useless
harmful consequences shown internally
connotations of volcanoes

Question 17

bayonet - threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

Answer 17

symbol or cowardice
vulnerable, weakness parallels soldier
conflict affecting nature

Question 18

poppies - all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt

Answer 18

metaphor + triplet
grief and fer have left her speechless
SF of sewing

Question 19

poppies- later a single dove flew from the pear tree

Answer 19

symbols of freedom and independece

Question 20

poppies - run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair

Answer 20

tactile image emphasises desire for closeness

perhaps her son hurts her

Question 21

tissue - turned into your skin

Answer 21

metaphor

paper acting for human life

Question 22

tissue - paper that lets the light shine through

Answer 22

religious connotations

alludes to how thing and fragile paper and human power is

Question 23

tissue - pages smothed and stroked

Answer 23

gentle, tactile language reflects respect to books, especially religious ones

Question 24

tissue - maps too. the sun shines through their borderlines

Answer 24

contrast between maps (mans attempt to control nature) and natural power of the sun
reference to conflict

Question 25

Ozy- I met a traveller

Answer 25

Percy distances himself to subtly critisise government

Question 26

Ozy- boundless and bare

Answer 26

Alliteration

Theme of loneliness

Question 27

Ozy- Hand that mocked and heart that fed

Answer 27

Art lives on
Mock - to make
- satirically mocking leaders power
Fed - others fed off his power or he fed off others

Question 28

Ozy- King of kings

Answer 28

Biblical imagery - link to desert (Jesus temptation)
Name given to Jesus
He sees himself as a god

Question 29

London -title

Answer 29

Metaphor of fallen world
Depicts a world of life in death
Extended metaphor restrictive of imagination

Question 30

London - chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow

Answer 30

Charter - written by authority, people confined mentally and physically
Implications of injustice flowing through the city

Question 31

London - mind forges manacles

Answer 31

Symbol of entrapment
Sf of physical imprisonment
Imagination like disease
Forged - suggests eternity

Question 32

London - how the chimney sweepers cry, every blackening church appalls

Answer 32

Metaphor and symbol of loss of innocence
Blake against child labour
Blackening - church involved in horrendous jobs
Symbol of authority over children and people

Question 33

London - hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls

Answer 33

Symbol
Monarchy now have blood on their hands
Powerless
Palace marked by bloodshed

Question 34

London - Blight the plague with marriage hearse

Answer 34

Blight - infertility caused by plague
Plague - infections - inequality spreading
Oxymoron - harlot plagued institution of marriage

Question 35

Exposure - title

Answer 35

Having no protection from harm

Revelation of something secret

Question 36

Exposure - our brains ache in the mercless iced east winds that knife us

Answer 36

Ache - continuous full pain or bitter and intense desire

Merciless - no compassion

Question 37

Exposure - watching we see the mad gusts tugging on the wire

Answer 37

Mad - mentally ill

Tugging - horse saddle origin ( dehumanising)

Question 38

Exposure - shutters and doors all closed on us the doors are closed

Answer 38

Metaphorically they cannot return home
Entrapment
Can not access their dreams

Question 39

Exposure - all their eyes are ice

Answer 39

Metaphor
Cold has destroyed the men
Complete a sense of friendliness or warmth
Emotional detachment

Question 40

Soti- we are prepared: we build our houses squat

Answer 40

Inclusive pronoun we - collective
Feelings of safety
Squat - uncomfortable

Question 41

Soti- tragic chorus

Answer 41

In Greek tragedy - chorus explains the events

Tragic explanation of devastating events

Question 42

Soti - exploding comfortably

Answer 42

Oxymoron (themes of fear and safety)
Metaphor makes the sea seem deadly
Natural imagery

Question 43

Soti- Empty air

Answer 43

Nature sounds weak
Contrasts power of nature
Ironic

Question 44

Soti- strange it is a huge nothing that we fear

Answer 44

We control our fears
Ironic
Ultimate power of nature is unknown

Question 45

Remains - title

Answer 45

What remains in his mind

Actual corpses

Question 46

Remains - on another occasion

Answer 46

Another - suggests it happens before
Colloquial - disregards the situation
PTSD controls what we do