Power and Conflict 2

The Prelude - "No familiar shapes

remained, no pleasant images of trees"

"(since none puts by /

The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) - MLD

"I gave commands; /

Then all smiles stopped together." - MLD

"Our brains ache,

in the merciless iced east winds that knive us ..." - Exposure

"Pause over half-known faces.

All their eyes are ice, / But nothing happens." - Exposure

SOTI - "The wizened

earth has never troubled us"

"Blast: you know what I mean -

leaves and branches / Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale" - SOTI

"We just sit tight

while wind dives / and strafes invisibly." - SOTI

Remains - "Then I'm home on leave. But I blink //

and he bursts again through the doors of the bank."

War Photographer - "as though this

were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass"

"A stranger's features /

faintly start to twist before his eyes, / a half-formed ghost" - War Photographer

"the blood stained

into foreign dust" - War Photographer

"That child's vocabulary

I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar" - The Emigree

The Emigree - "It lies down

in front of me, docile as paper; / I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"

First line of Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who wrote London?

William Blake

London - "I walk through

each chartered street, / Near where the chartered Thames does flow "

London - "And mark in

every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe"

The Prelude - "It was an

act of stealth/ And troubled pleasure"

"O'er my thoughts

There hung a darkness, call it solitude / Or blank desertion." - The Prelude

"But huge and mighty forms,

that do not live / Like living men" - The Prelude

"Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" - COTLB

"Back from the mouth of Hell, /

All that was left of them, / Left of six hundred" - COTLB

"We are prepared:

we build our houses squat" - SOTI

Who write Bayonet Charge?

Ted Hughes

Bayonet Charge - "The patriotic tear

that had brimmed in his eye / sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"

Who wrote Remains?

Simon Armitage

"Well myself and

somebody else and somebody else / are all of the same mind" - Remains

"but near to the

knuckle, here and now / his bloody life in my bloody hands" - Remains

"In his darkroom

he is finally alone / with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" - War Photographer

Tissue - "Paper that lets the light /

shine through, this is what could alter things"

"There was once

a country... I left it as a child / but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" - The Emigree

Kamikaze - "a tuna,

the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."

Who wrote Ozymandias?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which poem did Percy Shelley write?

Ozymandias

Ozymandias- "Sneer of

cold command"

"My name is Ozymandias,

king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Ozymandias - "boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Which poem is written by William Blake?

London

"The mind-forged

manacles I hear" - London

Who wrote The Prelude?

William Wordsworth

Which poem did Wordsworth write?

The Prelude

"The horizon's bound,

a huge peak, black and huge" - The Prelude

Who wrote My Last Duchess?

Robert Browning

Which poem did Robert Browning write?

My Last Duchess

"That's my last Duchess

painted on the wall"

"My gift of a

nine-hundred-years-old name" - MLD

"Notice Neptune, though, /

Taming a sea-horse" - MLD

Who write COTLB?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Which poem did Alfred Lord Tennyson write?

COTLB

"Storm'd at

with shot and shell" - COTLB

Who wrote Exposure?

Wilfred Owen

Which poem did Wilfred Owen write?

Exposure

Exposure - "Dawn massing in the east

her melancholy army / Attacks once more"

Exposure - "Slowly our

ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires"

"For love

of God seems dying" - Exposure

Who wrote Storm in the Island?

Seamus Heaney

Which poem did Seamus Heaney write?

SOTI

SOTI - "We are bombarded

by the empty air"

Which poem did Ted Hughes write?

Bayonet Charge

"Suddenly he awoke

and was running - raw / in raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy" - Bayonet Charge

Bayonet Charge - "In what cold clockwork

of the stars and the nations"

Which poem did Simon Armitage write?

Remains

How does Remains begin?

"On another occasion, we get sent out"

"One of my mates goes by

and tosses his guts back into his body" - Remains

What is the name of the soldier that inspired "Remains"?

Guardsman Tromans

Who wrote Poppies?

Jane Weir

Which poem did Jane Weir write?

Poppies

Poppies - "Before you left, /

I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, / spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade / of yellow bias binding around your blazer"

"All my words /

flattened, rolled, turned into felt, // slowly melting." - Poppies

Who wrote War Photographer?

Carol Ann Duffy

Which poem did Carol Ann Duffy write?

War Photographer

War Photographer - "A hundred agonies

in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five or six"

Who wrote Tissue?

Imtiaz Dharker

Which poem did Imtiaz Dharker write?

Tissue

"Maps too. The sun shines through /

their borderlines" - Tissue

Tissue - "Fine slips

from grocery shops"

"Might fly our

lives like paper kites" - Tissue

Who wrote The Emigree?

Carol Rumens

Which poem did Carol Rumens write?

The Emigree

"It may be at war,

it may be sick with tyrants, / but I am branded by an impression of sunlight" - The Emigree

Who wrote Checking Out Me History?

John Agard

Which poem did John Agard write?

Checking Out Me History

"Dem tell me /

wha dem want to tell me" - COMH

COMH - "Bandage up

me eye with me own history / Blind me to me own identity"

COMH - "But now

I checking out me own history / I carving out me identity"

Who wrote Kamikaze?

Beatrice Garland

Which poem did Beatrice Garland write?

Kamikaze

"A shaven head

full of powerful incantations" - Kamikaze

"Like a huge flag

waved first one way / then the other in a figure of eight" - Kamikaze

"they treated him /

as though he no longer existed, / only we children still chattered and laughed // till gradually we too learned to be silent" - Kamikaze

What collection was "London" part of and when was it written?

Songs of Experience (1794)

"Every black'ning

church appalls" - London

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