Power and Conflict poetry

Question 1

Ozymandias Poet:

Answer 1

Shelley

Question 2

London Poet:

Answer 2

Blake

Question 3

Extract from, The Prelude Poet:

Answer 3

Wordsworth

Question 4

My last Duchess poet:

Answer 4

Browning

Question 5

Charge of the Light Brigade Poet:

Answer 5

Tennyson

Question 6

Exposure Poet:

Answer 6

Owen

Question 7

Storm on The Island Poet:

Answer 7

Heaney

Question 8

Bayonet Charge Poet:

Answer 8

Hughes

Question 9

Remains Poet:

Answer 9

Armitage

Question 10

Poppies Poet:

Answer 10

Weir

Question 11

War Photographer Poet:

Answer 11

Duffy

Question 12

The Emigreé Poet:

Answer 12

Rumens

Question 13

Checking Out Me History Poet:

Answer 13

Agard

Question 14

Kamikaze Poet:

Answer 14

Garland

Question 15

4 Ozymandias Quotes:

Answer 15

1) ‘King of Kings, look on my works, ye mighty, and despair’
2) ‘sneer of cold command’
3) ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’
4) ‘Half sunk, a shattered visage’

Question 16

4 My last Duchess Quotes:

Answer 16

1) ‘That’s my last duchess painted on the wall’
2) ‘Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse
3) ‘Wilt please you sit and look at her’
4) ‘I know not how-‘

Question 17

3 Checking Out Me History Quotes:

Answer 17

1) ‘Dem tell me’
2) ‘Bandage me eye with me own history’
3) ‘I carving out me history’

Question 18

4 London Quotes:

Answer 18

1) ‘Every black’ning church’
2) ‘hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls’
3) ‘Mind forg’d manacles’
4) ‘Marriage hearse’

Question 19

4 Storm on the Island Quotes:

Answer 19

1) ‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’
2) ‘The wizened earth’
3) ‘.Space is salvo.’
4) ‘Spits like a cat turned savage’

Question 20

4 Extract from the Prelude Quotes:

Answer 20

1) ‘Towered up between me and the stars’
2) ‘(led by her)’
3) ‘elfin pinnacle’ to ‘huge peak, black and huge’
4) No familiar shapes’

Question 21

5 War photographer Quotes:

Answer 21

1) Sinister language ‘dark room’ and ‘red light’
2) ‘A priest ready to intone for mass’
3) .Rural England.
4) ‘Beirut, Belfast, Phnom Penh’
5) ‘tears between the baths and pre-lunch beers’

Question 22

3 Poppies Quotes:

Answer 22

1) ‘Single dove flew from the pear tree’
2) ‘Blackthorn of your hair’
3) ‘Sellotape bandaged around my hand’

Question 23

4 The Emigreé Quotes:

Answer 23

1) ‘Sick with tyrants but I am branded by’ ‘sunlight’
2) ‘Docile as paper; I comb its hair’
3) ‘open and spills a grammar…every coloured molecule of it’
4) ‘They circle me’

Question 24

5 Kamikaze quotes:

Answer 24

1) ‘My father embarked at sunrise’
2) ‘powerful incantation’
3) ‘fishing boats sprung out like bunting’
4) tuna, the dark price, muscular, dangerous.
5) ‘gradually we too learned to be silent’

Question 25

4) Charge of the Light Brigade Quotes:

Answer 25

1) ‘Jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell’
2) ‘Cannon to the right, Cannon to the left’
3) ‘Charge’ ‘Into the valley of Death’
4) Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred’

Question 26

5) Bayonet Charge Quotes:

Answer 26

1) ‘Suddenly he awoke’
2) ‘Yellow hare’
3) ‘Cold clockwork of nature of star’
4) ‘King, Honor, Human dignity, etcetera’
5) ‘Patriotic tear’

Question 27

5 Remains Quotes:

Answer 27

1) ‘On another occasion’
2) ‘ Well myself and somebody else and somebody else’
3) ‘His blood-shadow’
4) Sun stunned- sand smothered land
5) ‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’

Question 28

5 Exposure Quotes:

Answer 28

1) ‘But nothing happens’
2) ‘flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces’
3) ‘We cringe in holes’
4) ‘Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds’
5) ‘ For love of God seems dying’

Question 29

1 Ozymandias structure:

Answer 29

1) Sonnet form - mocking Ozymandias’ arrogance

Question 30

2 London structure:

Answer 30

1) 4 regular stanza structure and tightly controlled rhyme scheme: comparison to the tightly controlled city of london
2) Regular rhyme scheme: reflects normality, the struggle for survival is common to every man

Question 31

4 Extract from the prelude structure:

Answer 31

1) Epic poem: adventurous story about a hero - in this story nature is the heroine
2) One long stanza: confessional or overwhelms the reader mirroring the boy
3) One long stanza contradicted by enjambment: nature’s inability to be controlled as it is wild and untamable
4) Positive imagery which fades to negative imagery: idealistic view of nature from boy fades

Question 32

2 My last duchess structure:

Answer 32

1) Dramatic monologue: Duke maintains control through poem - only person to speak
2) One constant structure contradicted enjambment, caesuras and tangents: chaotic structure evoked, Duke’s inability to control his inner reality conflicting with the appearance he displays.

Question 33

2 The charge of the light Brigade structure:

Answer 33

1) Rhythmic and regular structure at the beginning - image of horses galloping (unstoppable). Fades towards the end, mirroring the failed military efforts
2) Six regular stanzas: like a memorial for 100 of the 600 fallen soldiers

Question 34

3 Exposure structure:

Answer 34

1) Ellipsis, caesuras, repetition: sense of boredom and waiting, excruciating anticipation for the soldiers
2) Eight regular stanzas contradicted with enjambment, repetition, caesuras: unexpected power of nature on the soldiers
- alternatively, societies warped perception of war as straightforward
3) Pararhyme use: imperfect rhyme, reflecting how the soldiers’ satisfaction of closure of the situation never occurs - endless

Question 35

3 Storm on the island structure:

Answer 35

1) One long stanza made of complex sentences: lack of break reflects overwhelming situation the narrator finds themself in
2) Enjambment: creates constant bombard of information mirroring relentless barrage of the storm
3) Colloquial contrasted with terrifying description of storm: narrator bringing order to a uncontrollable storm

Question 36

2 Bayonet charge structure:

Answer 36

1)Enjambment and caesuras: chaotic and hard to follow structure, reflecting soldier overwhelmed

Question 37

1 Remains structure:

Answer 37

1) Beginning colloquial language which fades to sinister as reader is bombarded with gruesome images

Question 38

1 Poppies structure:

Answer 38

1) Free verse + No regular structure+ enjambment + caesuras: combine for a chaotic structure reflecting the mothers overwhelming emotions

Question 39

2 War photographer structure:

Answer 39

1) Regular 6 line stanzas with regular rhyme scheme: photographer bringing order to chaos of war
2) cyclical structure: starts returning from trip and ends leaving for jobs - futility of his job

Question 40

2 The emigreé structure:

Answer 40

1) caesuras, enjambment, free verse combiens for chaotic structure: speaker’s turmoil with reality and the past
2) regular structure: speaker bringing order to the chaos

Question 41

4 Checking out me history structure:

Answer 41

1) Regular AB rhyme scheme: creates sense of normality, indicating corruption is ingrained into everyday life
2) Black figures isolated in italics on page:
- segregation of black figures from education system.
- Shows societies warped perception of these figures
3) Use of creole:
- poets history and identity overwhelms the eurocentric view in the poem
- creates informal tone, like it is used at home, Agard’s comfortability when finding his identity.
4) Rhythmic pace when speaking of the black figures: speed pace of poem creating sense of continuation, these figures won’t be forgotten and their stories live on

Question 42

2 Kamikaze structure:

Answer 42

1) Tightly controlled structure: reflects tight control of the military and the culture if what someone should do
2) Tight structure contradicted with free verse and enjambment: the pilot’s desire for freedom encased within a tightly controlled society