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Anthology Poetry - Power And Conflict Flashcards

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Ozymandias main theme and context (4)

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  1. Nature is more powerful than man
  2. all empires of history pass
  3. Artist is more powerful than politician
  4. Poet disliked his king for his wars as he was pacifist.
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Ozymandias Structure

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Sonnet - combines Shakespearean (ABAB) with the older Octave (problem which got solved at end). Ruler in love with themselves ?

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My Last Duchess main theme (3)

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  1. Arrogant, self centred Duke
  2. Male dominated power - what happens when you give unlimited power to people
  3. Weakness of powerful people
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My Last Duchess Structure (3)

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  1. One long verse - Duke doesn’t care about listener
  2. Lots of enjambement
  3. Rhyming couplets not so obvious - Duke wants to control poem but has no control over himself
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London Theme and Context (4)

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  1. Romantic Poet - criticising human takeover of society
  2. Blake taking walk through London
  3. Removed from suffering
  4. Negative experience
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London Structure (3)

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  1. 4 quatrains - relentless suffering
  2. Regular rhyme ABAB - man wants to control society
  3. Iambic tetrameter - suffering inescapable
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London Language (4)

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  1. ‘Blasts’
  2. ‘Chartered Thames’
  3. ‘Mind forged manacles’
  4. ‘Blood down palace walls’
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Prelude Theme and Context (5)

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  1. Wordsworth’s autobiographical epic
  2. Overwhelmed by nature
  3. At first he thinks man has control
  4. Man is selfish
  5. Pride is misplaced
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Prelude Structure (3)

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  1. Blank Verse
  2. Iambic pentameter
  3. Enjambment
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Prelude Language (7)

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  1. ‘Circles glittering’
  2. ‘Sparkling light’
  3. ‘A huge peak, black and huge’
  4. ‘Her’ - ‘upreared its head’
  5. ‘Proud of his skill’
  6. ‘Craggy ridge’
  7. Contrast
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Charge of the Light Brigade Theme and Context (4)wAl p

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  1. Crimean War
  2. Hiding military disasters
  3. Everything supposed to be good
  4. Praises soldiers bravery but blundering of aristocracy
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Charge of the Light Brigade Structure (2)

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  1. Dactylic dimeter

2. 6 stanzas of equal length, last one is shorter

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Exposure Theme and Context (2)

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  1. Wilfred Owen War poet - reality of war

2. Very boring

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Exposure Structure (2)

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  1. Half Rhyme

2. 8 stanzas of equal length

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Exposure Language (9-10)

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  1. ‘Merciless iced east winds’
  2. ‘Like twitching agonies of men’
  3. ‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’
  4. ‘Poignant misery of dawn’
  5. ‘We only know War lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag, stormy’
  6. ‘Watching, we hear’ - ‘flickering gunnery rumbles’
  7. ‘But nothing happens’
  8. ‘Her melancholy army’
  9. ‘Half known faces’
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Bayonet Charge Theme and Techniques (6)

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  1. Feelings and thoughts of a soldier
  2. Description of battlefield
  3. Questioning faith and patriotism
  4. Vivid Imagery
  5. Heavy Sounds
  6. Lists
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Bayonet Charge Structure (1)

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  1. 3 stanzas , not end stopped
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Bayonet Charge Language (5)

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  1. ‘Patriotic tear’ to ‘molten iron from the centre of his chest’
  2. ‘In what Cold clockwork of the stars was he the hand pointing to that second’
  3. ‘Clods’ ‘lugged’
  4. ‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera’
  5. ‘Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’
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Remains Theme (3)

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  1. UK Soldier in Middle Easy feeling guilty about what was a routine task at the time
  2. PTSD
  3. Change of tone from casual to serious
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Remains Structure (2)

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  1. 7 stanzas , last one with 2 lines only - guilt in speaker

2. Enjambement

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Remains Language (6)

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  1. ‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
  2. ‘On another occasion’
  3. ‘Legs it up’
  4. ‘Blood shadow’
  5. ‘I walk right over it week after week’
  6. ‘He’s probably armed, possible not’
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Poppies Theme (3)

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  1. Mother talking about her son who went off to war
  2. Maternal concern
  3. Tactile imagery
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Poppies Structure (3)

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  1. Dramatic monologue (silent listener)
  2. 3 stanzas , getting longer each time
  3. Stanza break in middle of sentence , mother metaphorically ‘melting’
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Poppies Language (6)

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  1. Military words - ‘spasms of Paper red’ ‘blockade’
  2. ‘Dove’ - led her to memorial - son RIP
  3. ‘Steeled softening’
  4. ‘Gelled blackthorns’ - texture as she is clinging onto any memory she can
  5. ‘Intoxicated’
  6. ‘Released a song Bird from its cage’
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War Photographer Structure (2)

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  1. Regular rhyme scheme of ABBCDD

2. Caesura - Rural England. - Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.

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War Photographer Theme (2)

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  1. Somebody is in a dark room from a war zone

2. People refuse to acknowledge reality of war.

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Tissue Theme (2)

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  1. Man thinks he has power, but nature does.

2. Paper is a metaphor for human power , fragile

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Tissue Structure (2)

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  1. Enjambment

2. Free verse

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Emigrée Theme (4)

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  1. Emigrant leaving home country as she connects with their homeland.
  2. She has no passport and is unable to return.
  3. Her memories stay with her.
  4. Country / city is unnamed.
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Emigrée Structure (4)

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  1. Enjambment and caesura and free verse

2. Sunlight

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Checking out me History Theme (5)

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  1. History is written by white people
  2. Do not teach history of black peoples.
  3. Anger
  4. Identity
  5. Personal experience ?
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Checking out me History Structure (2)

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  1. 2 alternate voices

2. Enjambment

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Checking out me History Language (8)

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  1. Lack of punctuation
  2. Non standard English
  3. Italics
  4. ‘Dem tell me’
  5. ‘Carving out me identity’
  6. ‘I checking out me own history’
  7. ‘A healing star’
  8. ‘A yellow sunrise’
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Kamikaze Theme (4)

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  1. What motivates people to give up their lives for their country ?
  2. Mother talking about to her children.
  3. Pilot looks at immensity of nature and remembers his childhood and decides to abort mission.
  4. Cultural and military dilemma
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Kamikaze Structure (2)

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  1. 6 lines per stanza - tight control from military

2. Free verse, enjambment - emotional pain ??

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Kamikaze Language (7)

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  1. ‘Incantations’ - Japanese propaganda
  2. ‘Green-blue translucent sea’
  3. ‘Fishes flashing silver’ - sibilance of nature - wondrous
  4. ‘Bellies swivelled towards the sun’
  5. ‘No longer the father we loved’
  6. ‘Which had been the better way to die.’
  7. Change of tenses hint at regret.

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