Structure

Question 1

Ozymandias

Answer 1

• Uses enjambment freely possibly to comment on the illusion of freedom. Also comments on the human desire to be free from oppressive tyrants
• Uses end stops towards second half of the poem to symbolise how human power is transient and semi-permanent - being easily curtailed by natures omnipotence

Question 2

London

Answer 2

• Uses enjambment to emulate how they believe their lives are free and boundless (not true)
• Blends in with end stops where the lines are paused to highlight how the lives of those who live in London are stopped and broken by the authorities that control them (hints at how they don’t expect this)

Question 3

Extract from, The Prelude

Answer 3

• Parallelism contrasts the speaker after he has undergone spiritual change and conducting his environment becomes a strenuous and exhausting feat
• Hyptotaxis used to simultaneously capture an impression of mightiness and smallness. Explains how it felt like for the mountain to grow - strengthened by the overwhelming intensity of the poem

Question 4

My Last Dutchess

Answer 4

• Enjambment and caesura creates a conversational tone. Enjambment provides a natural tone whilst the caesura makes the monologue feel disjointed and painful to listen to. Also hides the ABAB rhyme scheme possibly to show the Duke’s deceit and untrustworthiness

Question 5

The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Answer 5

• Dactylic Dimeter mimicing the sound of a horse’s hooves whilst running into battle and communicates have no choice but to follow the charge
• End stops exacerbating the idea of finality and reflects the soldiers fate being finalised (their death was inevitable)

Question 6

Exposure

Answer 6

• Cyclical structure shows the continuous viscous cycle of war
• Caesura serves of a barrier,showing how the soldiers are dreaming of a release and emphasises the relentlessness of their suffering

Question 7

Storm On The Island

Answer 7

• Poem generally doesn’t rhyme ; however, the first and final couplet have a slant rhyme which is unsettling and suspends them within the same aspic of waiting that the islanders operate in whilst expecting a storm
• Volta and enjabment allows the lines to physically overflow portraying the barrage of the storm which bombards the reader with information

Question 8

Bayonet Charge

Answer 8

• Generous use of enjambment creates an atmosphere of breathlessness and chaos. Many lines also flow into the next unhindered perhaps mirroring the terrifying moments of war blend into one stream for the soldier
• Uses caesura to slow the poem down - salient in the second stanza. Makes the poem not flow and confusing, possibly portraying the confusion a soldier feels in war

Question 9

Remains

Answer 9

• Enjambment shows the reader unable to separate events; all mixed in one continuous dialogue. Occurs at key moments of death and suffering
• Caesura interrupts the sentence, similar to how the flashbacks conflict interrupts the speaker’s day to day life

Question 10

Poppies

Answer 10

• Enjambment conveys her overwhelming emotions such as “overflowing // like a treasure chest.” Being taken aback as they transcend the domestic safety of their home and enter the outside “world”
• Caesura illuminates a visual and audible deception of emotional restraint. She pays homage to a type of bravery often overlooked during the war - the goodbyes from families

Question 11

War Photographer

Answer 11

• Cyclical structure of an “aeroplane” metaphorical for how the photographer is detached from the people of England (being alienated and cannot assimilate the impassive people in his country of origin)
• Caesura reiterates the notion of detachment and shows how overtly isolated rural England was from the war zones by installing a visual and audible barrier

Question 12

Tissue

Answer 12

• Enjabment creates an impression of a lack of rules and constraints and shows how freedom can be found even in the most restrictive place (contrasts with regular quatrains)
• Caesura is a criticism that humanity allows money and materialism to mindlessly engulf them

Question 13

The Emigrée

Answer 13

• Repetition imposes a belligerent tone and creates a separation between her and ‘them’ depicting her struggle to assimilate with the citizens of her new city
• Enjabment depletes throughout the poem which could show the comparison of freedom where her new city feels like claustrophobic confinement. Could also show the speaker’s lack of control

Question 14

Checking Me Out History

Answer 14

• Enjambment consistent throughout the poem which could be a rebellion against education system as it fails to employ the literary conventions regarding sentence structure
• Repetition could allude to a superficial education as it gives the impression of rote learning. Makes the information seem futile only memorised for an exam

Question 15

Kamikaze

Answer 15

• Enjambment is rife within the poem creating momentum and a sense of restlessness which could mirror the pilot’s disrupted mind. Disparity between rigid structure too which could be emblematic of the oppressive military in control
• Lack of rhyme scheme presents the poem in a prosaic manner and is told simplistically and factually to allow emotion to shine and make shifts in perspective more apparent and unsettling