Poets
Who came from British Guyana?
John Agard
Which poem will you find this quote in?
"The mind-forged manacles I hear"
London
What form is Ozymandias written in?
Sonnet
Who was married to Sylvia Plath?
Ted Hughes
Which poet uses non-standard English?
John Agard
Who died in a sailing accident?
Shelley
Which poem will you find this quote in?
"Someone had blunder'd"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Which poem uses half-rhyme throughout?
Exposure
Which Egyptian Pharaoh is Ozymandias based on and who might Shelley secretly have been comparing him to?
Ramesses II, George III
Name three poems which uses the first person singular (I, my) throughout.
London, The Prelude, Poppies, The Emigree
Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Seamus Heaney
Which poem contains this quote?
"What are we doing here?"
Exposure
Which poem ends every stanza with a line containing a slight variation on the same two words?
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Which poet suffered from shell shock?
Wilfred Owen
Name four poems which make use of repeating words or phrases.
London, Exposure, Charge of the Light Brigade, Checking Out Me History, Remains
Name two poets who started, but did not complete their degrees at Oxbridge.
Tennyson and Shelley
Which poem will you find this quote in?
"There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion."
The Prelude.
How many stanzas are there in 'War Photographer' and what is the rhyme scheme?
Four stanzas.
a, b, b, c, d, d
Name 3 poets who supported the French Revolution.
Blake, Wordsworth (and initially Shelley).
Which poem contains no punctuation?
Checking Out Me History
Name the two poets in the cluster who were Poet Laureate successively.
Wordsworth, Tennyson
Which poem will you find this quote in?
"tragic chorus"
Storm on the Island
Name three poems which use iambic pentameter.
The Prelude, Ozymandias and Storm on the Island
Name four war zones or wars alluded to in the poems, and the poem that relates to each.
Northern Irish conflict (Storm on the Island, War Photographer); Middle East (Remains, Poppies); World War 1 (Exposure, Bayonet Charge); Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade and Checking Out Me History); French Revolution (London, arguably); Haitian Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (Checking Out Me History); World War 2 (Kamikaze); Vietnam (War Photographer); Beirut (War Photographer)
Name three poems which personify nature.
Exposure, The Prelude, Storm on the Island.