Power and Conflict Poetry

Cards (94)

  • Which poem is the quote “One-way journey into history” spoken in?
    Kamikaze
  • Which poet has Pakistani origins but born in Glasgow?
    Imtiaz Dharker
  • Which poem has six stanzas reflecting on 600 men who have died?
    The Charge of The Light Brigade
  • Which poem is the quote “His bloody life in my bloody hands” spoken in ?
    Remains
  • What is the first line of Poppies?
    "Three days before Armistice Sunday"
  • Which poem is this this describing - Developing old photographs involved using lots of chemicals in a dark room to slowly reveal the image.
    War Photographer
  • Which poet is born in the Caribbean and moved to the UK in the 1970s.
    John Agard
  • What is the structure of Ozymandias?
    Sonnet
  • Of Shelley, Blake, Wordsworth and Owen which is not a romantic poet?
    Owen
  • What is enjambment?
    sentence runs from one line to the next
  • What is caesura?
    break in the line by the use of punctuation
  • Of Storm on the Island, Charge of the Light Brigade, London and The Prelude, which is not written in 1st person?
    Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Name the poem that contains this metaphor: "the drink and drugs won't flush him out."
    Remains
  • Name the poem that contains this metaphor: "my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats ..."
    Poppies
  • Name the poem that contains this metaphor: "My city takes me dancing ..."
    The Emigree
  • Name the poem that contains this metaphor: "In what cold clockwork of the stars was he the hand pointing that second?"
    Bayonet Charge
  • Name the poem that contains this metaphor: "a healing star … a yellow sunrise"
    Checking Out Me History
  • What is the first line of "Checking Out Me History"?
    Dem tell me
  • What is the first line of "War Photographer"?
    In his darkroom he is finally alone
  • What is the first line of London?
    I wander thro' each chartered street
  • Name the poem that contains this simile: "as though this were a church and he a priest priest"
    Bayonet Charge
  • What is the last line of "Ozymandias"?
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
  • Name the poem:"I met a traveller from an antique land …"
    Ozymandias
  • Name the poem:"I wander through each chartered street"
    London
  • Name the poem:"Her father embarked at sunrise"
    Kamikaze
  • Name the poem:"There once was a country... I left it as a child "
    The Emigree
  • Name the poem:"Dem tell me"
    Checking Out Me History
  • Name the poem:"Paper that lets the light"
    Tissue
  • Name the poem:"In his darkroom he is finally alone"
    War Photographer
  • Name the poem:"Three days before Armistice Sunday"
    Poppies
  • Name the poem:"On another occasion, we get sent out"
    Remains
  • Name the poem:"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us ..."
    Exposure
  • Name the poem:"Half a league, half a league,"
    Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Name the poem:"That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,"
    My Last Duchess
  • Name the poem:"One summer evening (led by her) I found"
    The Prelude
  • Name the poem:"We build our houses squat"
    Storm on the Island
  • What is this?"sweating like molten iron"
    simile
  • What is this?"spits like a tame cat"
    simile
  • What is this?"rock and roof"
    alliteration
  • What is this?"stacks or stooks"
    alliteration