1. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Simon Armitage
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.”
“But most through midnight streets I hear…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charge of the Light Brigade
“Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare…”
“I met a traveller from an antique land who said:”
Simon Armitage
And the poem is???

2. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Simon Armitage
“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.”
“so we’ve hit this looter a dozen times and he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charge of the Light Brigade
“probably armed, possibly not.”
“six-feet-under in desert sand.”
Simon Armitage
And the poem is???

3. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Robert Browning
“Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling?”
“as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years –old name with anybody’s gift.”
“my brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“who passed without much the same smile?”
Robert Browning
And the poem is???

4. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Robert Browning Seamus Heaney
“leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale so that you can listen to the thing you fear.”
“frontiers rise between us, close like waves.”
But there are no trees, no natural shelter.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
Robert Browning
“We are prepared:”
Seamus Heaney
And the poem is???

5. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Jane Weir
“my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without a winter coat or reinforcements.”
“I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“the world overflowing like a treasure chest.”
Jane Weir
“Home again to ordinary pain.”
And the poem is???

6. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Ted Hughes
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide open silent, its eyes standing out.”
“distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge.”
“terror’s touchy dynamite.”
Ted Hughes
And the poem is???

7. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Carol Ann Duffy
“From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care.”
“…is it that we are dying?”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
Carol Ann Duffy
“a half-formed ghost.”
And the poem is???

8. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Wilfred Owen
“Plunged in the battery-smoke right thro’ the line they broke.”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army.”
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east wins that knive us…”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed.”
Wilfred Owen
And the poem is???

9. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Carol Rumens Simon Armitage
“as time rolls its tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.”
“There once was a country…I left it as a child.”
Carol Rumens
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Simon Armitage
Charge of the Light Brigade
“I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind.”
“I have no passport, there’s no way back at all.”
And the poem is???

10. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Lord Alfred Tennyson
“When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!”
“Flash’d all their sabres bare, flash’d as they turned in air.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“We are bombarded by the empty air.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson
“Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred.”
And the poem is???

11. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Beatrice Garland
“Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell.”
“We too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned.”
“enough fuel for a one-way journey into history.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”
Beatrice Garland
And the poem is???

12. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? William Wordsworth
“no familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea, or sky.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“and growing still in stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars.”
“The dropping of the daylight in the West.”
William Wordsworth
And the poem is???

13. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Simon Armitage
“I wander through each chartered street.”
“in every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban, the mind-forged manacles I hear:”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;”
Charge of the Light Brigade
Simon Armitage
“runs in blood down palace walls.”
And the poem is???

14. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Simon Armitage
“living tissue…never meant to last.”
“my memory of it is sunlight-clear.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Imtiaz Dharker
“might fly our lives like paper kites.”
Charge of the Light Brigade
“Maps too.”
Simon Armitage
And the poem is???

15. Which quote is the ODD ONE OUT? Simon Armitage
“Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream fire-woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river.”
“she still brave the Russian snow a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise to the dying.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charge of the Light Brigade
“I carving out me identity.”
“a grand design with living tissue.”
Simon Armitage
And the poem is???

16. Remember to carve out your OWN identity…poetry is all about personal interpretation!!
Cheesy but TRUE!!
Now you’ve remembered some of the key quotes from the 15 poems, you can think about grouping them and potential exam questions…
Charge of the Light Brigade

17. If you have time, you can have a go at the following task…
Charge of the Light Brigade

18. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Remains
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the language in the poem

19. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Bayonet Charge
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the images in the poem

20. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Exposure
CHALLENGE:
Can you make a link between this poem and another one?

21. If this is the answer, what is the question?
War Phototgrapher
CHALLENGE:
Make it about structure

22. If this is the answer, what is the question?
The Charge of the Light Brigade
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about context

23. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Poppies
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the language in the poem

24. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Tissue
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the images in the poem

25. If this is the answer, what is the question?
The Emigree
CHALLENGE:
Can you make a link between this poem and another one?

26. If this is the answer, what is the question?
The Prelude
CHALLENGE:
Make it about structure

27. If this is the answer, what is the question?
London
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the images in the poem

28. If this is the answer, what is the question?
My Last Duchess
CHALLENGE:
Can you make a link between this poem and another one?

29. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Ozymandias
CHALLENGE:
Make it about structure

30. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Checking Out Me History
CHALLENGE:
Make it something about the language in the poem

31. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Kamikaze
CHALLENGE:
Can you make a link between this poem and another one?

32. If this is the answer, what is the question?
Storm on the Island
CHALLENGE:
Make it about structure