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Ozymandias
- context

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Ozymandias context:
Ramese II, Tyrant who abuses power
British Empire
Statue is in Birtish Museum
‘Romanticism movement power of nature’

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Ozymandias
- themes/messege

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Ozymandias themes/messege:
Futility of human power
The power of nature
False sense of power
Pride
Tyranny

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Ozymandias
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Ozymandias quotations:
“King of kings”
“boundless and bare”
“colossal wreck”
“wrinckled lip and sneer of cold command”
“two vast trunkless legs of stone”

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London
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London context:
Romantic poet
Very beginning of industrial revolution
French revolution
Working class suffer

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London
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London quotations:
people are owned by authority and the higher ups abuse their power

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London
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London quotations:
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow”
“Mark in every face”
“Marks of weakness marks of woe”
“Every blackning Church appalls”
“And blights with plagues the marriage hearse”

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The Prelude
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The Prelude context:
Lake District
Romantic poet

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The Prelude
-themes/message

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The Prelude themes/message:
Power of nature
Defiance
Trauma

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The Prelude
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The Prelude quotations:
“huge peak, black and huge”
“like a swan”
“I struck and struck”
“act of stealth and troubled pleasure”

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My last dutchess
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My last dutchess context:
Victorian Era (1842)
Renaissance

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My last dutchess
-themes/message

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My last dutchess themes/message:
Controlling
False power
Oppresion

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My last dutchess
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My last dutchess quotations:
“theres my last dutchess painted on the wall looking as if she were alive”
“I choose never to stoop”
“I gave commands and all smiles stopped together”
“The spot of joy, a half flush that dies along her throat”
“Notice neptune taming a sea horse, thought to be a rarity”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade context:
Crimean war

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade themes/message
bravery
war and its impacts
reality of war
patriotism
ignorance of authority

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade quotations:
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward,”
“Rode the six hundred.”
“Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of hell”
“The sabre stroke shatter’d and sunder’d.”

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Exposure
- context

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Exposure context:
Wilfred Owen died in the war
WWI (1914-1918)
conditions of the trenches; weather, rats, mustard gas

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Exposure
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Exposure themes/message:
power of nature
reality of war
humans against nature
anticipation

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Exposure
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Exposure quotations:
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“but nothing happens”
“Back on forgotten dreams”
“For love of God seems dying”

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Bayonet Charge
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Bayonet Charge context:
WWI
Poet had family in the war
Going into no mans land

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Bayonet Charge
-themes/message

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Bayonet Charge themes/message:
reality of war
bravery
patriotism
war and its impacts

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Bayonet Charge
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Bayonet Charge quotations:
“Shot slashed”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw”
“He plunged past with his bayonet towards the green hedge”
“Cold clockwork of the stars”

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Storm on the island
-context

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Storm on the island context:
Troubles in Ireland
War in Ireland

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Storm on the island
-themes/message

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Storm on the island themes/message:
nature
humans
danger

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Storm on the island
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Storm on the island quotations:
“We build our houses squat”
“like a tame cat turned savage”
“can raise a tragic chorus in a gale”
“it is a huge nothing that we fear”

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Remains
-context

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Remains context:
Inspired by real life accounts
Iraq and Afghanistan
published 2008

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Remains
-themes/message

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Remains themes/message:
effects of war
guilt
PTSD
conflict

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Remains
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Remains quotations:
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
“I see every round as it rips through his life”
“End of story, except not really”
“His bloody shadow”
“Probably armed, possibly not”

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Poppies
-context

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Poppies context:
Iraq and Afghanistan war/conflict
Symbol remembrance

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Poppies
-themes/message

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Poppies themes/message:
memory
grief
effects of war
childhood

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Poppies
-quotations

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Poppies quotations:
“Three days before Armistice Sunday”
“the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
“graze”
“Sellotape bandaged around my hand”

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War Photographer
-context

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War Photographer context:
Vietnam War, America Lost
Conscription
Cambodian Genocide
Irish troubles

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War Photographer
-themes/message

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War Photographer themes/message:
guilt
effects of war
reality of war
fuitility

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War Photographer
-quotations

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War Photographer quotations:
“darkroom”
“finally alone”
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“Rural England”
“something is happening”

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Tissue
-context

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Tissue context:
Born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow

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Tissue
-themes/message

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Tissue themes/message:
power of nature
powerlessness of man
conflict between men
knowledge

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Tissue
-quotations

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Tissue quotations:
“Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths”
“Never meant to last”
“The sun shines through their borderlines”
“The back of the Koran … names and histories”

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The Emigree
-context

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The Emigree context:
Refugees, Middle East

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The Emigree
-themes/message

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The Emigree themes/message:
seperation
identity
effects of war
immigration

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The Emigree
-quotations

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The Emigree quotations:
“There was once a country…I left as a child”
“My memory of it is sunlight - clear”
“As time rolls it’s tanks”
“I shall have every coloured molecule of it”

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Checking Out Me History
-context

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Checking Out Me History context:
Guyana, in the Caribbean
Moved to Britain in 1977
Eurocentrism

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Checking Out Me History
-themes/message

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Checking Out Me History themes/message:
identity
colonialism
eurocentrism
metaphorical sight

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Checking Out Me History
-quotations

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Checking Out Me History quotations:
“Blind me to me own identity”
“Haitian revolution”
“Carving out me identity”
“Dem tell me dem tell me what dem want to tell me”

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Kamikaze
-context

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Kamikaze context:
WW2
Japan is an empire,has an emperor
Bushido Code - of honour identity
kamikaze meaning divine wind

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Kamikaze
-themes/message

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Kamikaze themes/message:
Effects of war
Patriotism
Tradition
Identity

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Kamikaze
-quotations

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Kamikaze quotations:
“Shoals of fishes flashing silver”
“Turbulent inrush”
“This was no longer the father we loved”
“Which had been the better way to die”
“My mother never spoke again in his presence”
“Samauri sword”
“Embarked at sunrise”
“Dark prince, strong and muscular”
“Shaven head full of powerful incantations”

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