War and Conflict Poetry Quotes

Question 1

Form - Ozymandias:

Answer 1

*Mix of Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 2

Language - Ozymandias

Answer 2

• “I met a traveller”
• “Sunk”, “Shattered”, “Frown”, “Wrinkled”, “Snear”
• “Cold Command”
• “”My name is Ozymandias, look on my works, ye mighty and despair”“
• “Boundless and bare”
• “Lone and level sands stretch far away”

Question 3

Structure - Ozymandias:

Answer 3

• “Round the decay / of that colossal wreck”

Question 4

Form - London

Answer 4

• Rhyme scheme = ABAB
• Regular line length, stanza length
• Metrical Pattern = Iambic Tetrameter

Question 5

Language - London:

Answer 5

• “Chartered Thames”
• “Cry of every man”, “Infants cry of fear”, “voice in every barn”
• “Mind forged manacles”
• “Marriage hearse”

Question 6

Structure - London:

Answer 6

• “Chartered”
• “Marks”
• “Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
• “In every”
• Cyclical structure (focus of each paragraph)

Question 7

Language - Extract From the Prelude:

Answer 7

• “Its usual home”
• “Stealth”
• “Troubled Pleasure”
• “Proud of his skill”
• “Chosen point”
• “Craggy ridge”, “utmost boundary”
• “Elfin Pinnace”
• “Heaving through the water like a swan”
• “Trembling oars”
• “I left my bark”

Question 8

Structure - Extraxt from the Prelude:

Answer 8

• No stanzas or major breaks
• Enjambment at Volta
• “Huge peak, black and huge”
• “No familiar faces”, “No pleasant images of trees”, “No colours of green fields”

Question 9

Form - My Last Duchess:

Answer 9

• Dramatic Monologue
• 29 Rhyming Couplets
• Iambic Pentameter
• 1 stanza

Question 10

Language - My Last Duchess:

Answer 10

• “Will’t you please sit and look at her?”
• “If they durst”
• “You”, “Sir”
• “How shall I say?”
• “ - good!”
• “I gave commands then all smiles stopped”
• “Cast in bronze for me”

Question 11

Structure - My Last Duchess:

Answer 11

• “My”

Question 12

Form - The Charge of the Light Brigade:

Answer 12

• Dactylic Dimeter
• “Someone had blundered”
• Irregular rhyme scheme

Question 13

Language - The Charge of the Light Brigade:

Answer 13

• “All in the valley of death”
• “Theirs not to”
• “Cannon”
• “Thunder’d”
• “Wonder’d”
• “Mouth of hell”
• “Jaws of death”

Question 14

Structure - The Charge of the Light Brigade

Answer 14

• “Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards”

Question 15

Form - Exposure:

Answer 15

• Rhyme scheme = ABBAC
• Pararhyme

Question 16

Language - Exposure:

Answer 16

• “Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
• “Mad gusts”
• “Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks”
• “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
• “Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
• “Gunnery rumbles” “Dull rumble”
• “For the lack of God seems dying”

Question 17

Structure - Exposure:

Answer 17

• “Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing sunk fires”
• “But nothing happens”

Question 18

Language - Remains:

Answer 18

• “Legs it up the road”
• “Probably armed, possibly not”
• “Letting fly”
• “Sort of inside out”
• “Drink and drugs wont flush him out”
• “Dug in behind enemy lines”
• “Sun-stunned, sand-smothered”
• “My bloody hands”

Question 19

Structure - Remains:

Answer 19

• “On another occasion”
• “Somebody else and somebody else”
• “Three”
• “I swear / I see every round as it rips through his life”
• “Then I’m home on leave. But I blink”
• “Probably armed, possibly not”

Question 20

Form - Bayonet Charge:

Answer 20

• No Rhyme scheme

Question 21

Language - Bayonet Charge:

Answer 21

• “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
• “Stumbling, lugged”
• “Numb as a smashed arm”, “Dropped like luxuries”, “Rolled like fire”
• “Yellow hair”
• “He”
• “Etcetera”
• “His terror’s touchy dynamite”

Question 22

Structure - Bayonet Charge:

Answer 22

• “Suddenly”
• “Raw”, “Raw”, “Raw”
• “Was he the hand pointing that second?”
• “Furrows / Threw up”
• Repeated Caesura and Enjambment
• “Green hedge”

Question 23

Form - Storm on the Island:

Answer 23

• Dramatic Monologue
• No rhyme scheme (but 2 lines of pararhyme at beginning and end, “Squat” and “slate”, and “air” and “fear”)
• No separate stanzas
• Iambic pentameter
• “Fear”

Question 24

Language - Storm on the Island:

Answer 24

• “We”
• “As you see”, “you know what I mean”
• “Exploding comfortably”
• “Stafes”, “Salvo”

Question 25

Structure - Storm on the Island:

Answer 25

• Enjambment from lines 5 to 10

Question 26

Form - War Photographer:

Answer 26

• Regular Rhyme scheme = ABBCDD
• Regular Stanza length

Question 27

Language - War Photographer:

Answer 27

• “Ordered Rows”
• “Like a priest preparing to intone a mass”
• “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh”
• “The reader’s eyeballs pricked with tears”
• “They do not care”

Question 28

Structure - War Photographer:

Answer 28

• “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh”
• “.Rural England.”
• “Tears” “Beers”
• “From the aeroplane”

Question 29

Form - Poppies:

Answer 29

• Dramatic Monologue
• Free verse
• Different stanza lengths

Question 30

Language - Poppies:

Answer 30

• “I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias”
• “Sellotape bandaged around my hand”
• “Reinforcements of scarf, gloves”

Question 31

Structure - Poppies:

Answer 31

• “All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting”

Question 32

Form - The Emigree:

Answer 32

• Free verse
• Semi regular line length of 8/9 lines

Question 33

Language - The Emigree:

Answer 33

• “There once was a country…”
• “The bright filled paperweight”
• “Branded by an impression of sunlight”
• “Sick”, “comes to me”, “it lies down”, “I comb its hair”, “Takes me dancing”, “My city hids behind me”

Question 34

Structure - The Emigree:

Answer 34

• “Branded by an impression of sunlight”
• “I carried here / like a hollow doll”
• “They accuse me”, “They circle me”, “They mutter death”
• Epistophe of “sunlight”

Question 35

Form - Tissue:

Answer 35

• “Free verse”
• “Turned into your skin”

Question 36

Language - Tissue:

Answer 36

• “Paper that lets the light through”, “Alter things”, “Koran”
• “Maps too. The sun shines through”
• “Borderlines, the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds”
• “Fine slips” “Like paper kites”
• “Daylight breaks through capitals and monoliths”
• “Turned into your skin”

Question 37

Structure - Tissue:

Answer 37

• Enjambment between stanza’s 1, 2, and 3
• “Transparent”
• “Turned into your skin”

Question 38

Form - Checking out me History:

Answer 38

• Stanzas about black historical figures are in Free verse
• AAAA rhyme scheme for comparison stanzas

Question 39

Language - Checking out me History:

Answer 39

• Creole language, phonetic spellings, and lack of punctuation
• “Bandage up me own eye with me own history”
• Lack of punctuation in italicised stanzas
• “Dem tell me about Lord Nelson and waterloo, but them never tell me about Shaka da great Zulu”
• “Carving out me own history”

Question 40

Structure - Checking out me History:

Answer 40

• “Dem tell me”
• “Dick Whittington and he cat”, “Toussaint L’Overture”
• “Balloon”, “Spoon”, “Moon”, “Nanny de Maroon”
• Enjambment

Question 41

Form - Kamikaze:

Answer 41

• Regular Stanza Length
• Free Verse

Question 42

Language - Kamikaze:

Answer 42

• “Samurai Sword”
• “Shaven heads full of powerful incantations”
• “She”, “He”
• “Little fishing boats”, “Green-blue translucent sea”
• “Figure of eight”
• “Shoals of fish flashing silver as their bellies swivel towards the sun”
• “Built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”
• “A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
• “Which had been the better way to die?”

Question 43

Structure - Kamikaze:

Answer 43

• “Safe” “Safe” “Safe”
• “Laughed / Till”