Key Quotations Flashcards
COTLB
Into the..
Into the jaws of death,/ into the mouth of hell.’
COTLB
“Then they..”
Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred.’
COTLB
“Honour the…”
Honour the light brigade,/ noble six hundred
EXPOSURE
“But..”
“But nothing happens”
EXPOSURE
“Sudden successive..”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
EXPOSURE
“Merciless iced..”
Merciless iced east winds that knife us
EXPOSURE
Flickering
Flickering gunnery rumbles
Rhythm and meter
Synaesthasia mixing uo senses
REMAINS
But i blink
But i blink// and he bursts again […] Sleep […]/ Dream[…]
REMAINS
Tosses his
Tosses his guts back into his body
REMAINS
And the drink
And the drink and the drugs wont flush him out
POPPIES
My stomach
My stomach busy /making tucks, darts, pleats
POPPIES
Released a
Released a song bird from its cage
POPPIES
I listened
I listened, hoping to hear/ your playground voice
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
Spools of
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
Home again […]
Home again […] to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in the nightmare heat.
What are the names of carol ann duffys war photographer friends
Don McCullin and Phillip Jones Griffiths
How is a poet and war photographer similar
Both create a representation of what life looks like to them that other people then explore
What is the theme of war photographer
Impossibility of presenting the horrors of war and conflict
Link to bayonet charge
What is the structure of war photographer
4 stanza
6 lines per stanza
ABBCDD rhyme scheme
What is the effect of ‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh’
Plosives -quick fire, gun like pace
Caesura- breaks the peace. Makes you think about individual places
What is the effect of the structure of war photographer
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
What is another structural feature of war photographer
Cyclical structure
Starts and ends with photographer returning from trip
Ends where it starts emphasising futility
What is the effect of the last line ‘he earns his living and they do not care’
Ambiguous- who are they?
Us as a reader of the poem?
What is the effect of the language in war photographer
Filled with vivid imagery just like the photographs
What is the effect of the full stops around ‘rural england’
Seperates england from war zone
What are the interpretations of ‘a half-formed ghost’
Half a memory
An injured man
Religious imagery in war photographer
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?
What is the word for how remians starts
Medias res
Meaning of remains
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
Why does remain use colloquial language
It is an everyday event for the soldiers
Why does simon armitage repeat probably armed, possibly not
Cyclical structure
Taken back to start
Suggests that terror is inescapable
Why does remains have enjambement between the second and third stanza
Whole stanza breaks
Causes reader to stop
Slows motion- moment that changed his life
Why does remian use the verb flush
Flush out a cold- cleanse
Suggests the soldier is unclean
Why does remains use “sun stunned, sand-smothered land”
Syballance
Causes us to stop and focus. Sun and sand are positive juxtaposed to stunned and smothered
