Poems - Key Quotations Flashcards
COTLB
Quotation for: form of propaganda, pro-war
‘Honour the charge they made!/ Honour the Light Brigade’
COTLB
Quotation for: structure - shorter line at end of each stanza
‘…the six hundred’
COTLB
Quotation for: religious imagery
Biblical allusion, psalm 23 ‘valley of Death’
COTLB
Quotation for: rising anticipation of danger
‘Into the jaws of Death,/ Into the mouth of Hell’
COTLB
Quotation for: anaphora
‘Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward,’
COTLB
Quotation for: regular rhyme
‘Storm’d at with shot and shell,/ While horse and hero fell,’
Exposure
Quotation for: structure - shorter line at end of each stanza
‘But nothing happens’
Exposure
Quotation for: religious imagery
‘For love of God seems dying’
Exposure
Quotation for: ‘exposing’ reality and futility of war, war between soldiers and weather
‘Merciless iced east winds that knife us’
Exposure
Quotation for: rhetorical question
‘Is it that we are dying?’
Exposure
Quotation for: para-rhyme
‘Knive us … / […] nervous’
Exposure
Quotation for: never ending pain and suffering (ellipsis)
‘The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow …’
Exposure
Quotation for: weather is more deadly than soldiers (personification)
‘Merciless iced east winds that knive us …’
Exposure
Quotation for: sibilance, lulling into false sense of security, auditory imagery - bullets zooming past ears
‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’
Exposure
Quotation for: cyclical structure, nothing achieved, just slowly dying
‘But nothing happens’
Exposure
Quotation for: caesura, pause-mid line, division of soldiers from home
‘Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed’
Remains
Quotation for: tone - colloquialism, everyday event for soldiers
‘One of them legs it up the road’
Remains
Quotation for: treating their enemies badly, disrespect for them
‘Carted off in the back of a lorry’
Remains
Quotation for: guilt, remorse
‘Probably armed, possibly not’
Remains
Quotation for: structure, beginning mid-action, not organised, chaotic, unstable
‘On another occasion’
Remains
Quotation for: triplets, doesn’t want to be the only one blamed
‘Well myself and somebody else and somebody else’
Remains
Quotation for: shift in responsibility, deals with consequences alone
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
Remains
Quotation for: enjambment, show life changing moment when looter is shot, life is broken
‘Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear / (new stanza) I see every round as it rips through his life -‘
Remains
Quotation for: caesura - sense of finality, thought effects of war would switch off when he went home
‘Then I’m home on leave. But I blink’
Remains
Quotation for: cyclical structure, goes round in circle, trauma soldier is experiencing is inescapable
‘Probably armed, possibly not’
Remains
Quotation for: juxtaposed two different types of language - casual + horrific imagery - before and after effects on soldiers
‘Legs it’
‘Tosses his guts back into his body’
Remains
Quotation for: vague language, indescribable horrors of war, not prepared
‘Sort of inside out’
Remains
Quotation for: using war phrases - PTSD
‘Dug in behind enemy lines’
Remains
Quotation for: breaking down, suffering from PTSD
Short 2 line stanza at end -
‘but near to the knuckle, here and now, / his bloody life in my bloody hands.’
Poppies
Quotation for: guilt, remorseful, regrets letting son go to war
‘A split second / and you were away’
Poppies
Quotation for: treating their own soldiers well, respect
‘Individual war graves’
Poppies
Quotation for: allusion to 12 days of Christmas - loss of hope - one (son) gone
‘A single dove flew from the pear tree’
Poppies
Quotation for: enjambment, break in structure - reflects his mother is breaking emotionally
‘All my words / flattened, rolled, turned into felt, / (new stanza) slowly melting.’
Poppies
Quotation for: juxtaposed two different types of language - domestic + war-related words - suggests how those left behind feel, effects of suffering in everyday life
‘Reinforcements of scarf, gloves’
Reinforcements - military related
Poppies
Quotation for: that mother was unlucky and easy to break
‘Like a wishbone’
Poppies
Quotation for: caesura - needing break for grief
‘Slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked / with you,’
Poppies
Quotation for: thinking back to the past, war is seen as game
‘I listened, hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind’
