Quotes

Question 1

London quotes

Answer 1

• ”I wander thro” suggests it’s a journey
• ”charter’d” London is owner and people are robbed of their rights
• ”every” repetition implies the enormity if poverty and corruption
• ”blackening church” and “Runs in blood down Palace walls” blames church and state
• ”blights with plagues” everything good has decayed

Question 2

She walks in beauty quotes

Answer 2

• ”she walks in beauty” everything she passes becomes beautiful
• ”starry skies” and “tender light” refers to her inner radiance
• ”raven tress” linked with bad omens and darkness of the night which surrounds her with mystery
• ”smiles that win, the tints that glow” inner modesty and age is loved by all
• ”a heart whose love is innocent” love is described as both internal and external beauty

Question 3

Valentine quotes

Answer 3

• ”not a red rose or a satin heart” rejects traditional images of love
• ”I give you an onion” personal pronouns shows it’s for a specific person
• ”a wobbling photo of grief” suggests love can be painful and overwhelm us
• ”blind” “fierce” and “possessive” love can cause pain and be dangerous
• ”cling to your knife” the sinister tone suggests an obsessive side to love

Question 4

To Autumn quotes

Answer 4

• ”season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” season of change but also calm
• ”thee sitting careless on a granary floor” autumn is personified as s season which can be thoughtless in the changes it brings
• ”thou watchest oozing” he implies autumn behaves as if it has all the time in the world
• ”and gathering swallows Twitter in the sky” winter is drawing in and his time is coming to an end, acceptance

Question 5

Afternoons quotes

Answer 5

• ”afternoons” suggests Day drawing to an end
• ”summer is fading” tine is wistful and the poem has a sense of longing for the past
• ”young mothers” “hollow” and “assemble” suggests routine and boredom creates emptiness
• ”their beauty has thickened” they have aged
• ”expect to be taken home” their life is ruled and dictated by children and others

Question 6

Dulce et Decorum est quotes

Answer 6

• ”bent double” and “coughing like hags” they are physically broken by war
• ”trudge” “marched asleep” “drunk with fatigue” they are exhausted
• ”Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!” suggests urgency and fear
• ”guttering, choking, drowning” the horror of the attack emphasised
• ”dreams” war fad infiltrated his sleep, he can never have peace
• ”the old lie” war is cruel, degrading and horrifying
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Question 7

Mametz wood

Answer 7

• ”four years afterwards…” the horror of the war still affects us
• ”China plate” “broken bird’s egg of a skull” and “mosaic of bone” fragility and broken art
• ”the earth stands sentinel” the earth itself is scared by what it’s seen
• ”socketed heads titled back at an angle” brutally visualises the moment the men were shot
• ”their absent tongues” they have now finally found a voice they have received justice for their actions

Question 8

Manhunt quotes

Answer 8

• ”the manhunt” suggests a chase did something he has lost
• ”porcelain” and “silk” suggest vulnerability
• ”grazed heart” and “broken ribs” suggests the casualties of war
• ”foetus of metal” and “unexplored mine” suggest the pain isn’t over and it has the potential to grow
• ”only then did I come close” suggests it’s a journey through pain and healing to rekindle their love