Y10 Mocks Poetry Quotes

Question 1

London– The mi

Answer 1

The mind forged manacles I hear

Question 2

London – and the hap

Answer 2

And the hapless soldiers sigh

runs in blood down Palace walls

Question 3

London – every bl

Answer 3

Every black’ning church appals,

Question 4

London – second stanza

Answer 4

In every cry of every man,
in every infants cry of fear,
in every voice, in every ban,
the mind forged manacles I hear

Question 5

London – and mark in

Answer 5

And mark in every face I meet

marks of weakness, marks of woe.

Question 6

Charge of the light Brigade – half a league

Answer 6

Half a league, half a league half a league onward, all in the valley of death

Question 7

Charge of the light Brigade – was there a

Answer 7

Was there a man dismayed? Not tho the soldier knew

someone had blundered

Question 8

Charge of the light Brigade – Canon to

Answer 8

Canon to right of them, Canon to left of them, Canon in front of them

Question 9

Charge of the light Brigade – into the

Answer 9

Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred

Question 10

Charge of the light brigade – reel’d

Answer 10

Reel’d from the sabre stroke

shattered and sundered

Question 11

Charge of the light Brigade – honour

Answer 11

Honour the charge they made!

Honour the light Brigade, noble 600!

Question 12

Exposure – in the

Answer 12

In the merciless iced East winds that knife us…

Question 13

Exposure – we hear

Answer 13

We hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire

Question 14

Exposure – like a dull

Answer 14

Like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here?

Question 15

Exposure – her mel

Answer 15

Her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey

Question 16

Exposure – sudden suc

Answer 16

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

Question 17

Exposure – less deadly

Answer 17

Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow

Question 18

Exposure – blossoms

Answer 18

Blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. – Is it that we are dying?

Question 19

Remains – on another

Answer 19

On another occasion we get sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank

Question 20

Remains – probably

Answer 20

Probably armed, possibly not.

Question 21

Exposure – well myself

Answer 21

Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind

Question 22

Exposure – I see every

Answer 22

I see every round as it rips through his life

Question 23

Exposure – end 

Answer 23

End of story, except not really.

Question 24

Exposure – his bloody

Answer 24

His bloody life in my bloody hands.

Question 25

War photographer – in his dark room

Answer 25

In his dark room he is finally alone

with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.

Question 26

War photographer – all fl

Answer 26

All flesh is grass.

Question 27

War photographer – prick with

Answer 27

Prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.

Question 28

War photographer – he stares

Answer 28

He stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care.

Question 29

War photographer – how he sought

Answer 29

How he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust

Question 30

Kamikaze – her fa

Answer 30

Her father embarked at sunrise

Question 31

Kamikaze – enough fuel

Answer 31

enough fuel for a one-way journey into history

Question 32

Kamikaze – on a gr

Answer 32

On a green blue translucent sea

Question 33

Kamikaze – like a huge

Answer 33

Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight

Question 34

Kamikaze – a tuna

Answer 34

A tuna, the dark Prince, muscular, dangerous.

Question 35

Kamikaze – he must

Answer 35

He must have wondered which had been the better way to die.

Question 36

Kamikaze – waiting on

Answer 36

Waiting on the shore built cairns of pearl grey pebbles