LIT2 - Poetry - Comparison plans Flashcards
How would you compare CoLB and Exposure?
-war is fatal (CoLB gives vivid imagery about the situation, but Exposure shows how nature is potentially more fatal than the inactive enemy)
-attitudes to war (CoLB glorifies it but has hints of criticism, and Exposure discusses its futility)
How would you compare Bayonet Charge and Exposure?
-experience/danger of war (deadly in Bayonet, slow and tedious in Exposure)
-attitudes towards war (both seem to disagree with the idea of it, and how it is futile)
How would you compare Poppies and MLD?
-power of memory (MLD possibly manipulates the truth with unreliable dramatic monologue, criticising how his wife did all sorts of things in the past tense, like how she “thanked men”, and in Poppies it controls the mother, giving her grief but also nice memories)
-extent of power (MLD’s power (and lack of it) over women and structure of poem, and Poppies lack of power as her voice is ignored)
How would you compare Tissue and Emigrée?
-memory (Emigrée shows how memory can preserve culture and show how the country used to be different, and Tissue uses the paper to preserve memories and culture in the “Koran”, and “capitals and monoliths”)
How would you compare Tissue and MLD?
-lack of power (Tissue presents humans as having a lack of power, being controlled by something like with the kite simile, but MLD shows the powerlessness of women as the Duke controls his Duchess)
-identity and societal division (Tissue shows how nature “shines through” our divisions, representing hope, whilst MLD shows identity defined by aristocratic power, as the Duke sees himself as a god and divides himself from the Duchess with the curtain he blocks the painting with)
How would you compare ComH and Emigrée?
-distant and oppressive power against identity (Em. uses accusative pronouns to refer to other city to show their hostility and time could also be seen as the enemy, and ComH also uses accusatives to distance from the colonialists)
-power of defiance (Em.’s view shines through regardless of the oppression she faces, and ComH’s too through the Creole dialect and lack of punctuation, actively going against others)
How would you compare London and ComH?
-power of a distant/illegitimate force (ComH makes colonial education seem foolish by comparing it to nursery rhymes, and London discusses the power of an oppressive upper class and its effects on the working classes)
-difference in speaker’s power (ComH is very powerful even in the face of the colonialists, but London is depressing and hopeless)
How would you compare the Prelude and SotI?
-power of nature (Prelude is more mysterious, as it leads the boy into a sort of trap with a tonal shift, and is controlled by “unknown modes of being”, but SotI shows it to be somewhat powerful, then a tonal shift into using the lexical field of conflict)
-psychological effects (Prelude has no visible effects, only traumatising thoughts to his dreams, whilst SotI has no effects on the land and they know it is nothing, but they still fear it)
Make sure to distinguish these 2 points - eg talk about how the mountain appears to be terrifying and personified, then separately talk about how it affects the child.
How would you compare Kamikaze and Ozymandias?
-loss of power (Ozy shows the fall of the pharaoh, and we do not feel sympathy for him, but in Kamikaze, the pilot is treated as if he doesn’t exist anymore, and society has shunned him)
-power of nature (Ozy presents nature as the ultimate downfall of the ruler, and in Kamikaze, nature is seen to influence his decisions strongly, as it reminds him of his childhood and causes him to turn back)
How would you compare Remains and War Photographer?
-uncontrollable post-traumatic stress/inner conflict (WP shows that the pain felt now is much worse, as his “hands did not tremble though seem to now”, and has to resort to his coping mechanism, and Remains is severely affected in his domestic life)
-devaluation of life (WP is desensitised to death as he has seen “a hundred agonies in black and white”, showing how it has lost its intense colour, and Remains nonchalantly “tosses his guts back into his body”, which seems to be a repeated “occasion”)
IGNORE
bayonet charge // exposure
cotlb // exposure rev
comh // london rev
tissue // emigree
poppies // mld rev
emigree // comh
prelude // storm on the island rev
ozymandias // kamikaze rev
war photographer // remains rev
bayonet // exposure
cotlb // exposure
comh // london
emigree // comh
emigree // mld // kami // poppies // tissue
mld // ozy
ozy // kami
poppies // kami
prelude // soti
tissue // mld
war photographer // remains
