Power poetry

Question 1

Checking out me history
(restrictive narrative)

Answer 1

‘dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’

Question 2

Checking out me history
(black pride, history)

Answer 2

‘Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream’

Question 3

Checking out me history
(hope)

Answer 3

‘but now I checking out me own history, I carving out me own identity’

Question 4

Tissue
(transparency, hope)

Answer 4

‘Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things’

Question 5

TIssue
(power in fragility)

Answer 5

‘Living tissue, raised a structure never meant to last’

Question 6

Tissue
(conflict with restriction)

Answer 6

‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines’

Question 7

Tissue
(perspective)

Answer 7

‘Turned into your skin’

Question 8

Storm on the island
(battle, conflict)

Answer 8

‘We are prepared’

Question 9

Storm on the Island
(hostility of nature)

Answer 9

‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘Exploding comfortably’

Question 10

Storm on the Island
(power of politics)

Answer 10

‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’

Question 11

Ozymandias
(dictator)

Answer 11

‘Sneer of cold command’

Question 12

Ozymandias
(irony of human power)

Answer 12

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
‘Nothing besides remains’

Question 13

Ozymandias
(nature vs man)

Answer 13

‘Decay of colossal wreck’

Question 14

London
(society)

Answer 14

‘Mind-forged manacles’

Question 15

London
(revolution context)

Answer 15

‘The hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls.’

Question 16

London
(hypocrisy of church)

Answer 16

‘Black’ning church appals’

Question 17

the Prelude
(sublime)

Answer 17

‘growing still in stature the grim shape Towered between me and the stars’

Question 18

the Prelude
(foreshadowing)

Answer 18

‘troubled pleasure’

Question 19

the Prelude
(mans hubris)

Answer 19

‘Proud of his skill’

Question 20

the Prelude
(big)

Answer 20

‘A huge peak, black and huge’

Question 21

The Prelude
(nature transcends humanity)

Answer 21

‘Huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men’

Question 22

My last duchess
(possession)

Answer 22

‘That’s my last duchess painted on the wall’
‘Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse’

Question 23

My last duchess
(hypocrisy)

Answer 23

‘Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling’

Question 24

My last duchess
(danger of power)

Answer 24

‘I gave commands then all smiles stopped together’