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Exposure
What is the author and date?

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Wilfred Owen, 1920

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Exposure
What is the poem about?

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Soldiers endure difficult conditions including terrible weather - feel disconnected from lives at home

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Exposure
What is the context of the poem?

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He wrote the poem while fighting in WW1 and died in action

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Exposure
What are the poem themes?

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Meaninglessness of war, conflict between man and nature

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“the merciless iced east winds that knife us”

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Exposure

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“pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces”

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Exposure

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Exposure
What is the poem structure?

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Lots of ellipses, caesuras, repetition creates a sense of waiting and boredom

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Charge of the light brigade
What is the author and date?

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Alfred Tennyson, 1854

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Charge of the light brigade
What is the poem about?

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Many soldiers died after being sent into an ill-advised battle

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Charge of the light brigade
What is the context of the poem?

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Crimean war - British sent with swords to fight Russians with guns

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Charge of the light brigade
What is the structure of the poem?

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Narrative poem, chronological order making the poem sound like horses galloping

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“into the jaws of death into the mouth of hell”

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Charge of the light brigade

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“came thro’ the jaws of death back from the mouth of hell”

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Charge of the light brigade

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My last duchess
What is the author and date?

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Robert Browning, 1842

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My last duchess
What is the poem about?

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The duke describes his late wife disapproved behaviour - hinted he killed her

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My last duchess
What is the poem context?

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The poet is likely inspired by death of the real duchess

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My last duchess
What is the poem structure?

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Dramatic monologue, rhyming couplets, iambic pentameter

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My last duchess
What is the poem themes?

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Power and conflict - showing off his power over the duchess

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“that’s my last duchess painted on the wall”

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My last duchess

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“a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad”

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My last duchess

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The prelude
What is the author and date?

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William Wordsworth, 1850

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The prelude
What is the poem themes?

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Power of nature, childhood memory, personal and sublime experiences

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The prelude
What is the poem structure?

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Epic poem - heroic event happened to him

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The prelude
What is the poem about?

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A man rowing and being awed by power of nature

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“there hung peak black and huge”

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The prelude

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“there hung a darkness call it solitude”

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The prelude

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The prelude
Describe the journey in the boat

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First - nature at peace
Later - darker, harsh, predatory putting man back in his place

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The prelude
Describe the mountain

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It represents full might and power of nature, like a game of ‘chicken’

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London
What is the author and date?

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William Blake, 1794

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London
What is the poem about?

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Someone walking around London and all the despair he sees

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London
What is the poem context?

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Blake believed in social equality

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“marks of weakness, marks of woe”

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London

32
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“and blights with plagues with marriage hearse”

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London

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London
What is the poem themes?

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corruption of power, inequality

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London
What is the poem structure?

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4 stanzas, regular alternate scheme - reflect walking around London, last line of stanza is a powerful statement

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Ozymandias
What is the author and date?

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Percy Bysshee Shelley, 1817

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Ozymandias
Who is Ramesses II?

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He is the greatest, most celebrated and powerful pharaoh

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Ozymandias
What is the poems tone?

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Ironic, rebellious

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Ozymandias
What is the poem structure?

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Sonnet, iambic pentameter

39
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Ozymandias
What is the poem about?

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Story of a ruined statue of a once proud King in a desert

40
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Ozymandias
What is the poem context?

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Shelley was a romantic - intense emotions influenced by nature

41
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“look on my works, ye mighty and despair”

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Ozymandias

42
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“and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”

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Ozymandias

43
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Bayonet charge
What is the author and date?

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Ted Hughes, 1957

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Bayonet charge
What is the poem about?

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A WW1 soldier charges enemy line - patriotism is replaced with fear

45
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Bayonet charge
What is the poem context?

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Hughes’s father was a soldier in WW1

46
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“he lugged a rifle as numb as a smashed arm”

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Bayonet charge

47
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“in what cold clockwork of the stars and nations”

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Bayonet charge

48
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Bayonet charge
What is the poem structure?

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There is no set structure, enjambment giving erratic speed to poem

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Storm on the island
What is the author and date?

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Seamus Heaney, 1966

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Storm on the island
What is the poem about?

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island-dwellers believe they are prepared for storm but still fear it

51
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Storm on the island
What is the poem context?

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Heaney was from rural northern Ireland the ‘storm’ may be referring to political violence

52
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“spits like tame cat turned savage”

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Storm on the island

53
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Storm on the island
What is the poem tone?

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violent, dark, conversational

54
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Storm on the island
What is the poem structure?

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blank verse, unrhymed

55
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“forgetting that it pummels your house too”

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Storm on the island

56
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Remains
What is the author and date?

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Simon Armitage, 2008

57
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Remains
What is the poem about?

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a soldier being haunted by memory of killing a man who was looting a bank

58
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Remains
What is the poem context?

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its based on a real account

59
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Remains
What are the poem themes?

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reality of war

60
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Remains
What are the poems tones?

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guilty, haunting, anecdotal

61
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“probably armed, possibly not”

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Remains

62
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“and the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”

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Remains

63
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“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

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Remains

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Remains
What is the poems structure?

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monologue, enjambment, caesura emphasises natural speech

65
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Poppies
What is the author and date?

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Jane Weir, 2009

66
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Poppies
What is the poem about?

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a mother describing her feelings and actions as her son leaves, apparently joining the army

67
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Poppies
What is the poem context?

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its part of the war collection poems

68
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Poppies
What is the poems structure?

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69
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“spasms of paper red”

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Poppies

70
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“crimpled petals”

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Poppies

71
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“the world overflowing like a treasure chest”

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Poppies

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