Conflict Poems Flashcards
Exposure:
Key quotes, Summary, Important contextual information, Poems that link to it/Key themes
Key quotes:
- “in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
- “What are we doing here?”
- “Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”
- “Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
- “Slowly our ghosts drag home”
- “Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed”
Summary:
Wilfred Owen, a soldier from within the trenches of world war 1 is explaining the harsh reality of what it is like in the trenches 24/7.
Important contextual information:
found the poem on his dead body, wrote during his time in service, died in WW1
Poems that link to it/Key themes:
Bayonet Charge - in the trenches
Charge of the Light Brigade, Poppies - loss
Remains, War Photographer - effects of conflict
Storm on the Island - power of nature
Remains:
Key quotes, Summary, Important contextual information, Poems that link to it/Key themes
Key quotes:
“probably armed, possibly not”
“I see broad daylight on the other side”
“End of story, except not really.”
“Sleep, and he’s probably armed , possibly not.
Dream, and he’s torn apart by a dozen rounds.”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Summary:
A soldier is telling a number of people a story of how he killed a person in his service, however after he finishes the story the poem continues on about how this soldier is stuck with this dead person in his head. He explains how it mentally effects his everyday life.
Important contextual information:
mental impacts of war
Poems that link to it/Key themes:
Poppies, Kamikaze - memory
Charge of the Light Brigade, Bayonet Charge, Exposure - conflict
Kamikaze, War Photographer - individual experiences
War Photographer - guilt
War photographer:
Key quotes, Summary, Important contextual information, Poems that link to it/Key themes
Key quotes:
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat”
“A hundred agonies in black and white”
Summary:
A war photographer is dipping his photos of harsh images in water.
Important contextual information:
Carol Ann Duffy was closely related to a war photographer
addresses the challenges of being a war photographer
Poems that link to it/Key themes:
Remains - effects of conflict
Kamikaze, Remains, Poppies - memory
Kamikaze, Remains - individual expirences
Remains - guilt
Poppies:
Key quotes, Summary, Important contextual information, Poems that link to it/Key themes
Key quotes:
“steeled the softening of my face”
“the gelled blackthorns of your hair”
“the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
“hat-less, without
a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves.”
“playground voice catching on the wind”
Summary:
A mother is leading her son out of her house for him to leave for war.
Important contextual information:
mother’s emotions to war, loss of children, children being sent of to service
Poems that link to it/Key themes:
Remains, Kamikaze, War Photographer- memory, individual experiences
Remains, Exposure, War Photographer - effects of conflict
Charge of the Light Brigade - loss
Bayonet Charge:
Key quotes, Summary, Important contextual information, Poems that link to it/Key themes
Key quotes:
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations”
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