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Question 1

In the zeppelin, what is significant about the 3rd and 6th lines?

Answer 1

3rd and 6th lines rhyme don’t expect to rhyme back so has emphasis hence word choice

Question 2

In the zeppelin, what is the rhyme scheme similar to, and what is the significance of this?

Answer 2

o Similar rhyme scheme to Shakespearian sonnet but different so jumbled + displaced like setting- metanarrative

Question 3

In the Zeppelin, what animal imagery image is used to describe the zeppelin?

Answer 3

charms like a snake

stings

Question 4

in the zeppelin, what is the significance of the words “sudden” and “angry” being in quick succession?

Answer 4

give rhythm of raised heartbeat, conveying fear

Question 5

In Air Raid, how are the humans presented as prey and the guns/planes presented as predators?
Which line later confirms this idea?

Answer 5

o Guns + planes = predators (“bark” and “roar”) humans= prey with compound adjectives “wide-eyed” “prick-eared”

confirmed later by “like some sore-hunted creature”

Question 6

How does the structure of Air Raid contrast the mechanisation of warfare to the vulnerability/minuscule significance of an individual?

Answer 6

volta marks the focus shift from gargantuan “bark of guns” to inside “breathing of [a] little child”

Question 7

How does the structure of exposure demonstrate the futility of warfare? What critic quote backs this up?

Answer 7

“but nothing happens” at end of first stanza and last stanza

Birkett- “he is the poet of futility”

Question 8

What is the effect of the half rhymes (“stormy”/”army”, “brambles”/”rumbles”) in Exposure?

Answer 8

it gives a sense of incompleteness/ fragmentation

Question 9

What is the significance of the Owenian coinage “glozed”?

Answer 9

• obscure word reflects disconnect from reality

Question 10

In The Call, what does the phrase “white roads called for their feet” connote?
What poem does this oppose, and what other poem is it similar to?

Answer 10

connotes stairway to heaven/fighting leads to heaven

different to strange meeting where they go to hell

same in field manoeuvres – silver segment of road

Question 11

What phrase in Brookes propaganda poem “peace” suggests that war breaks the monotonous cycle of life?

Answer 11

“wakened us from sleeping”

Question 12

In Peace, what phrase suggests war is a purifying force, almost baptismal, as if its a passport to eternity?

Answer 12

Swimmers into cleanness leaping

Question 13

In the verdicts, what do the cross rhymes suggest about the reliability of the soldiers?

Answer 13

rhyme will come back mimics reliability of the soldiers

Question 14

What does kipling call the soldiers in the verdicts, that memorialises them as heroes?

Answer 14

demi-gods

Question 15

In strange meeting, the soldiers meet in hell. In which other famous novel is the idea of meeting in hell present?

Answer 15

dante’s inferno

Question 16

in strange meeting, what are heroic couplets, and what is the significance of these?

Answer 16

Heroic couplets= rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter

used for epic poetry, ironic bc used for something not heroic at all

Question 17

In owens strange meeting, what does he mean by “none will break ranks”? What is the significance of this?

Answer 17

no one will rebel against war

usually in military terms this would be good but here Owen seeks to break ranks himself and does so with his protest poetry

Question 18

what does the title “dolce et decorum est” mean, and where did it come from?

Answer 18

Horace’s odes. 0
it is sweet and right to die for ones country

BC/AD Horace wrote very patriotic poetry as he needed people to fight for the country under Emperor Augustus. Owen would know Horace because studied Latin and Greek at school

Question 19

In Owen’s dolce est decorum est, what is the significance of the word “mori” being a spondee?

Answer 19

it is drawn out, mimetic of the drawn out death of the soldier drowning in the gas attack

Question 20

In dolce et decorum est, what do the phrases “coughing like hags we cursed through sludge” and “knock-kneed” demonstrate?

Answer 20

the ageing effects of war. gives sense of “the undone years” which Owen refers to in strange meeting

cacophonous, the c alliteration is onomatopoeic of the coughing .

Question 21

In the poem deaths men, what does the repetition of the words “click clack” suggest about the soldiers?

Answer 21

theyre toys, robotic and mechanical, stuck in a regime doing the same thing, controlled by the puppeteer which is death

Question 22

In death’s men, what does referring to the men as “wooden dolls” suggest about them?

Answer 22

they have no soul or depth to them because it has gone with this regime

Question 23

In officers mess, the speaker refers to his “words” “jerking about like beetles”. What does this imply about soldiers’ conversation?

Answer 23

compares conversations of soldiers with something insignificant- hints at the futility of human conversation, because in the end, they will be dead.

Question 24

What phrases in the dead suggest there is value in dying? How is this similar to the poem the soldier?

Answer 24

“the rich dead” and “but, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold”

like in “The Soldier” where dying in a foreign field is valuable “in that rich earth a richer dust concealed”

Question 25

What is the form of in flanders fields and how is this significant?

Answer 25

a rondeau
meaning round in english, giving a sense of the circle of life
traditionally a love song form, suggesting a love of war

Question 26

In In flanders fields, the rhymes carry through the stanzas, what is this mimetic of?

Answer 26

as if passing the torch to the next stanza, and assume they carry on beyond the poem, which is what McRae wants as he says “to you from failing hands we throw the torch.”

Question 27

In in flanders fields, it McRae writes “to you from failing hands we throw the torch”. What other poem is this similar to and why?

Answer 27

In Vitae Lampada, Newbolt writes “bear through life like a torch in flame, and falling fling to the host behind”

title means torch of life

Question 28

when was the battle of the somme and how many british casualties were there?

Answer 28

(July-November 1916) 57000 British Casualties

Question 29

what is the reason for the abundance of religious imagery in owens poetry?

Answer 29

lay assistant to vicar of Dunsdon

Question 30

what is interesting about the title “anthem for doomed youth”?

Answer 30

anthem” usually song song of praise for country so used ironically

Question 31

why did brooke never fight in the war?

Answer 31

died of sepsis from mosquito bite