Poetry Anthology Quiz

Answer key quotes from the Year 11 Poetry anthology

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Hint	Answer
Ozymandias	'The lone and level sands stretch far away'
Ozymandias	'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my words, ye mighty, and despair!'
Ozymandias	'Sneer of cold command'
Ozymandias	'Shattered visage'
Ozymandias	'Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare'
My Last Duchess	'None puts by the curtain which I have pulled for you, but I'
My Last Duchess	'I gave commands; then all smiles stopped'
My Last Duchess	'Too soon made glad'
My Last Duchess	'Ranked my gift... with anybody's gift'
My Last Duchess	'Nine-hundred-years-old name'
London	'The mind-forged manacles I hear'
London	'And blights with plagues the Marriage Hearse'
London	'Near where the chartered Thames does flow'
London	'How the chimney-sweepers cry every black'ning Church appalls'
Extract from the Prelude	'A little boat tied to a Willow tree'
Extract from the Prelude	'Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point with an unswerving view'
Extract from the Prelude	'A huge peak, black and huge'
Extract from the Prelude	'Towered up between me and the stars'
Charge of the Light Brigade	'In the valley of death, rode the six hundred'
Charge of the Light Brigade	'Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them'
Charge of the Light Brigade	'Flashed all their sabres bare, flashed as they turned in air'
Charge of the Light Brigade	'White horse and hero fell'
Charge of the Light Brigade	'Honour the Light Brigade, noble six hundred!'
Exposure	'The merciless iced, east winds knife us'
Exposure	'We hear mad gusts tugging on the wire, like twitching agonies of men along it's brambles'
Exposure	'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence'
Exposure	'For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid'
Exposure	'On us the doors are closed - we turn back to our dying'
Exposure	'For the love of God seems dying'
Exposure	'But nothing happens'
Storm on the Island	'We are prepared: we build our houses squat'
Storm on the Island	'So you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too'
Storm on the Island	'Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs'
Storm on the Island	'The flung spray hits the very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage'
Storm on the Island	'It is a huge nothing that we fear'
Bayonet Charge	'Bullets smacking the belly out of the air'

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Bayonet Charge	'The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest'
Bayonet Charge	'Listening between footfalls for the reason of his still running'
Bayonet Charge	'Threw a yellow hare that rolled like a flame'
Bayonet Charge	'King, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries in e yelling alarm'
Remains	'Probably armed, possibly not'
Remains	'Well myself and somebody else and somebody else'
Remains	'I see every round as it rips through his life- I see broad daylight on the other side'
Remains	'He's here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines'
Remains	'His bloody life in my bloody hands'
Poppies	'Disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer'
Poppies	'Steeled the softening of my face'
Poppies	'The world overflowing like a treasure chest'
Poppies	'You were away, intoxicated'
Poppies	'I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind'
War Photographer	'He a priest, preparing to intone a mass'
War Photographer	'To fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat'
War Photographer	'How he sought approval without words to do what someone must'
War Photographer	'The reader's eyeballs prick with tears between the baths and pre-lunch beers'
War Photographer	'He stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care'
Tissue	'Where a hand has written in the histories, who was born to whom'
Tissue	'If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift, see how easily they fall away on a sigh, a shift in direction of the wind'
Tissue	'Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines'
Tissue	'Fine slips from the grocery store that say how much was sold and what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites'
Tissue	'With living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last'
The Emigree	'The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view, the bright, filled paperweight'
The Emigree	'It may be sick with tyrants but I am branded by the impression of sunlight'
The Emigree	'My city takes me dancing through the city walls'
The Emigree	'They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight'
Checking out me History	'Bandage up my eye with me own history Blind me to me own identity'
Checking out me History	'Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with the spoon but dem never tell me about Nanny De Maroon'
Kamikaze	'A shaven head full of powerful incantations'
Kamikaze	'Little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea'
Kamikaze	'A huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight'
Kamikaze	' We children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent'
Kamikaze	'He must have wondered which had been the better way to die'

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