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Key Quotations Flashcards

1
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COTLB

Into the..

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Into the jaws of death,/ into the mouth of hell.’

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COTLB

“Then they..”

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Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred.’

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COTLB

“Honour the…”

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Honour the light brigade,/ noble six hundred

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EXPOSURE

“But..”

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“But nothing happens”

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EXPOSURE

“Sudden successive..”

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“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

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EXPOSURE

“Merciless iced..”

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Merciless iced east winds that knife us

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EXPOSURE

Flickering

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Flickering gunnery rumbles

Rhythm and meter
Synaesthasia mixing uo senses

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REMAINS

But i blink

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But i blink// and he bursts again […] Sleep […]/ Dream[…]

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REMAINS

Tosses his

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Tosses his guts back into his body

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10
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REMAINS

And the drink

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And the drink and the drugs wont flush him out

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POPPIES

My stomach

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My stomach busy /making tucks, darts, pleats

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POPPIES

Released a

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Released a song bird from its cage

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13
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POPPIES

I listened

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I listened, hoping to hear/ your playground voice

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14
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Spools of

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Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Home again […]

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Home again […] to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in the nightmare heat.

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16
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What are the names of carol ann duffys war photographer friends

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Don McCullin and Phillip Jones Griffiths

17
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How is a poet and war photographer similar

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Both create a representation of what life looks like to them that other people then explore

18
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What is the theme of war photographer

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Impossibility of presenting the horrors of war and conflict

Link to bayonet charge

19
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What is the structure of war photographer

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4 stanza
6 lines per stanza
ABBCDD rhyme scheme

20
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What is the effect of ‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh’

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Plosives -quick fire, gun like pace

Caesura- breaks the peace. Makes you think about individual places

21
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What is the effect of the structure of war photographer

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JUXTAPOSITION
War photographers job(neat and tightly ordered) juxtaposes to chaos of war
War photographers efforts are futile. Each stanza is the same and the same old thing keeps happens

22
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What is another structural feature of war photographer

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Cyclical structure
Starts and ends with photographer returning from trip

Ends where it starts emphasising futility

23
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What is the effect of the last line ‘he earns his living and they do not care’

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Ambiguous- who are they?

Us as a reader of the poem?

24
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What is the effect of the language in war photographer

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Filled with vivid imagery just like the photographs

25
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What is the effect of the full stops around ‘rural england’

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Seperates england from war zone

26
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What are the interpretations of ‘a half-formed ghost’

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Half a memory

An injured man

27
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Religious imagery in war photographer

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Dark room and red room- red and dark room both have connotations to hell. Juxtaposition to church

All flesh is grass- biblical psalm fragility of life

Ordered rows- war graves?

28
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What is the word for how remians starts

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Medias res

29
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Meaning of remains

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Someones body after death
Soldier who has been used in the machine of war and there is nothing useful left of him
Metaphorically, something of him dies

30
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Why does remain use colloquial language

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It is an everyday event for the soldiers

31
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Why does simon armitage repeat probably armed, possibly not

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Cyclical structure
Taken back to start
Suggests that terror is inescapable

32
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Why does remains have enjambement between the second and third stanza

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Whole stanza breaks
Causes reader to stop
Slows motion- moment that changed his life

33
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Why does remian use the verb flush

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Flush out a cold- cleanse

Suggests the soldier is unclean

34
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Why does remains use “sun stunned, sand-smothered land”

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Syballance

Causes us to stop and focus. Sun and sand are positive juxtaposed to stunned and smothered

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