Power and Conflict Poetry

Question 1

London What is the double meaning in the phrase 'black'ning church'?

Accepted Answer

The church is blackened with soot and blackened with sin.

Question 2

War Photographer What were Duffy's intentions in writing War Photographer?

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to demonstrate the wider effects of war, to create empathy for the hard job war photographers have

Question 3

War Photographer What is the effect of the enjambment?

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it demonstrates that the poet is lost/out of place at home, reflects the gradual revealing of the photo as it develops

Question 4

Bayonet Charge Complete the quotation: 'Bullets X the X out of the air'

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smacking, belly

Question 5

War Photographer Which poems also explore memories, like War Photographer?

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Kamikaze, Remains

Question 6

Kamikaze What is ironic about the plot of Kamikaze?

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he turned back for his family but his family rejected him

Question 7

Ozymandias Which one of the these poems also explores the arrogance of power.

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My Last Duchess

Question 8

COMH What inspired Agard to write Checkin' Out Me History?

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his experience of a British education in Guyana, the opening line of a textbook: "history began in 1066"

Question 9

Exposure What is Owen’s message in the poem?

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To expose the misery of life in the trenches

Question 10

The Prelude What techniques are in 'my boat/Went heaving through the water like a swan'?

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enjambment, simile

Question 11

Tissue Complete the quotation: "pages X and stroked and turned X with attention"

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smoothed, transparent

Question 12

Remains What's the technique? 'Probably armed, possibly not.'

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plosive alliteration, repetition

Question 13

COMH What does the lack of punctuation show?

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he is rebelling against the formal education he was given

Question 14

COMH: Complete the quotation: "X up me eye with me own X"

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bandage, history

Question 15

COMH Which historical characters are referenced in the poem?

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Toussaint L'Ouverture, Christopher Columbus, Nanny de Maroon

Question 16

Remains Which of these lines suggests the soldier's guilt?

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'the drink and the drugs won't flush him out-', 'his bloody life in my bloody hands'

Question 17

My Last Duchess Complete the quotation: "I gave X ; Then all smiles X together"

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commands, stopped

Question 18

Storm on the Island What connects the words: Dives, Strafes, Salvo and Bombarded?

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Pattern of military language, Pattern of aggressive language

Question 19

The Prelude Which aspects of power are found in the poem?

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Man's arrogance, The power of nature

Question 20

Tissue What was Dharker's inspiration for writing Tissue?

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an argument with her Dad about politics and religion, her life as a 'cultural mongrel', finding her Dad's Qu'ran with names written in the back

Question 21

Remains What inspired Armitage to write this poem?

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A channel 4 documentary

Question 22

My Last Duchess What form is the poem written in?

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Dramatic Monologue

Question 23

COTLB What event inspired the poem?

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The Crimean War

Question 24

Bayonet Charge What pattern connects these words: field, threshing circle, hare, green hedge ?

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agriculture, nature

Question 25

The Prelude In the line "One summer evening (led by her)" who is 'her'?

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Nature

Question 26

Kamikaze What does Garland compare the fishing boats to?

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bunting

Question 27

London How does Blake feel about his city?

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Angry, saddened and frustrated

Question 28

Poppies What semantic field is used in the poem?

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Textiles, War

Question 29

Remains Which lines suggest the soldier is suffering with PTSD?

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'Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not', 'in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines', 'I blink/and he bursts again through the doors of the bank'

Question 30

The Prelude What type of poem is The Prelude?

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An extract from an autobiographical epic poem.

Question 31

Poppies "run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair" What's significant?

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biblical reference: alludes to the sacrifice he is making, protective and mothering action on her behalf, it implies she feels he's growing up and no longer innocent

Question 32

Kamikaze What conflicts does the poem present?

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conflict between nature and humans, conflict between individual and society

Question 33

London What technique is Blake using in the phrase 'marriage hearse.'?

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oxymoron

Question 34

Poppies What inspired Weir to write Poppies?

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A walk to a war memorial through a graveyard with her son

Question 35

Exposure Complete the quotation: “our brains X, in the X iced east winds that X us”

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ache, merciless, knive

Question 36

Ozymandias What poetic form does the poem use?

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Sonnet

Question 37

The Émigrée What is the significance of the last line of each stanza?

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they all use imagery of sunlight

Question 38

My Last Duchess Complete the quotation: "My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old X With anybody's X"

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name, gift

Question 39

War Photographer Complete the quoatation: "this were a X and he a X preparing to X a mass"

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church, priest, intone

Question 40

Tissue What is the impact of the line "fly our lives like paper kites?

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shows that nature is ultimately more powerful than humans, simile suggests of trying to control something but failing, hints at how our lives can be controlled by money

Question 41

Bayonet Charge 'King, honour, human dignity, etc, dropped like luxuries' What does this reveal?

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That Hughes believes the reasons people go to war are futile

Question 42

COTLB Complete the quote: " X the charge they made X the light brigade, X six hundred”

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honour, honour, noble

Question 43

COTLB What is Tennyson’s overarching message in the poem?

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to evoke respect for the soldiers, to expose the futility of war

Question 44

Poppies Complete the quotation "X to hear your X voice X on the wind"

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hoping, playground, catching

Question 45

COMH: What are the key themes in Checkin' Out Me History?

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individual and cultural identity

Question 46

Storm On The Island What technique is being used in “exploding comfortably”?

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Oxymoron

Question 47

Exposure What's the technique? “sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence?”

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sibilance, imagery

Question 48

Tissue What is the final line of the poem?

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"turned into your skin"

Question 49

COTLB What is significant about the last stanza?

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it is shorter to show how short the soldiers lives were, it is shorter to emphasise that not all soldiers came home

Question 50

The Émigrée What technique does Rumens use in relation to the speaker's home city?

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personification

Question 51

Exposure What is the significance of the last lines of each stanza?

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To emphasise that the soldiers are questioning their purpose, To emphasise the futility of war, To emphasise the monotony of war

Question 52

War Photographer "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" What is significant?

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sibilance creates a spitting sound, emphasising negativity, alludes to image of soldiers patrolling, alludes to the image of a mass war grave

Question 53

Ozymandias Which poet wrote Ozymandias?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 54

Poppies What key themes does Poppies deal with?

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Memories and individual experiences, Reality of War

Question 55

COTLB What is the effect of the rhythm?

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To create a fast pace to reflect the speed of the ambush, To reflect the sound of the horses' hooves charging

Question 56

My Last Duchess What aspects of power are explored?

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The power of control, The short lived nature of power, The arrogance of power

Question 57

Remains What's the effect of the colloquial language?

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To echo that this is a personal account, To shock the reader as the man's death is trivialised

Question 58

Storm on the Island Complete the quotation “X like a X cat turned X"

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spits, tame, savage

Question 59

Bayonet Charge Complete the quotation: 'In what cold X of the stars and the X'

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clockwork, nations

Question 60

Bayonet Charge What is the effect of the enjambment?

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To reflect the speed of the battle, To reflect the soldiers' over-spilling emotions

Question 61

Ozymandias Complete the quotation: "Half X a X visage lies, whose X and sneer of X command"

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sunk, shattered, frown, cold

Question 62

Storm On The Island What is the pun in the title of the poem?

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Stormont is the name of the parliament buildings in NIreland

Question 63

The Prelude Complete the quotation: 'The horizon's bound, a huge peak X and X.'

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black, huge

Question 64

London What does the adjective 'chartered' mean in 'chartered streets' and 'chartered Thames'?

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mapped, managed

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