Conflict Poems Key Points Flashcards
“Probably armed, possibly not” is from which poem?
Remains
Name some key quotations from remains
“Tosses his guts” “Blood shadow” “On another occasion” “I blink and he bursts in again” “The drinks and drugs won’t flush him out”
Name some key quotations from Exposure
“But nothing happens”, repeated 4 times over the poem anaphora
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
“Snow dazed” / “sun dozed”
Why does Wilfred Owen use repetition?
To show the continuation of “but nothing happens” despite them being out there and that they are dieing for what seems like nothing
Why does Alfred Lord Tennyson use repetition ?
To give it a rhythm that symbolises their unstoppable march
How does the rhythm of Charge of the light Brigade contrast to that of Owens?
Tennyson uses rhyme but not in a fixed pattern but does express the march of the army, which in itself contrasts to Exposure as they are doing nothing in that, and Owen uses pararhyme of ab ba (such as us, silent, salient and nervous), this shows nothing changes in the rhyming pattern nothing changes at the front, unlike in Tennyson
What is the structure of remains?
8 stanzas, first 7 are 4 lines last one is 2 which is short to possibly represent how he shortened the mans life
What happens in remains?
It is about a soldier who feels guilt and has PTSD from killing someone
What person is Remains written in?
1st person
Who is Remains written by?
Simon Armitage
What is the structure of exposure?
8 stanzas of 5 lines
Analyses this quotation from exposure
“Shutter and doors, all closed” and compare this idea to Charge of the Light Brigade
It expresses how the soldiers feel left out and forgotten about from they’re family and home land, whereas in Charge of the Light Brigade it is suggested that the soldiers are honoured by the people and that their “glory” cannot “fade”, however this is not how they feel
What is the structure of Charge of the Light Brigade?
6 stanzas, length varies this could portray how they endure the battle from start to finish
Who was Exposure written by?
Wilfred Owens
Who was Charge of the Light Brigade written by?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Give some context to Remains about who the poems told through
It is based on a real life soldiers experience in Iraq and his PTSD. The first person narrative mimics the interview Armitage conducted
Give some context for Wilfred Owens Exposure
Owen spent the 1917 winter in the war and used this first hand experience to write about its reality, its a first hand account. About trench warfare in WW1. Extreme cold weather. Died a few days before the war, recognised as a Great War poet.
Give some context for Charge of the Light Brigade
Tennyson was poet Laureate at the time so was patriotic. He wrote about it from a news article he saw, about an event in the Crimean war where a mistake had been made which cost many peoples lives
Give some context for Remains
It is a first person account. After making a film for channel 4 called ‘the not dead’ where he’d interviewed veteran soldiers he wrote Poems about their first hand experiences. It’s anecdotal (unreliable). He’s never been to war, built of interviews. Based on an interview with soldier who took part in war in Iraq
Give examples of tentative language
Might, could, perhaps, some say…
Give examples of critical language
Significantly, notably, interestingly, critically …
