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Poetry Anthology Flashcards

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Ozymandias - structure

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Mix of sonnet form showing power gives ways to new power

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Ozymandias - statue

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Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

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Ozymandias - writing on the statue

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings

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Ozymandias - desert

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boundless and bare, The lone and level sand stretch far away

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Ozymandias - negative description

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wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command

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Ozymandias - ‘boundless and bare’

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Alliteration emphasising emptiness

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London - structure

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controlled but with enjambment contrasting the controlled city but not nature

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London - street and river

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wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow

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London - trapped mind

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The mind-forged manacles I hear

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London - corruption

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Every black’ning church appalls […] Runs in blood down palace walls

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London - young ones

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How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear

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Prelude - structure

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One long verse with enjambment left readers breathless, creating a sense of overwhelmed.

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Prelude - peak

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a huge peak, black and huge

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Prelude - action

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It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure

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Prelude - dark side of nature

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no pleasant image of trees, Of sea or sky. no colours of green fields

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Prelude - fear

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With trembling oars I turned, And through the silent water stole my way

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My Last Duchess - structure

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uncontrolled stanza showing how the Duke is unable to control his emotions and his wife

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My Last Duchess - metaphor

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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall

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My Last Duchess - his power

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I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.

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My Last Duchess - ocean

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Neptune, though taming a sea-horse

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My Last Duchess - ‘Neptune taming a sea-horse’

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Reflecting how the Duke can’t control nature and women

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Light Brigade - structure

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Ballad form telling a story or teaching a lesson

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Light Brigade - Into ….

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Into the valley of Death. Into the mouth of Hell

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Light Brigade - ‘valley of death’

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Bliblical reference to highlight suffering and God couldn’t save them

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Light Brigade - anaphora

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Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die

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Light Brigade - Dactylic Diameter

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Mirrors the hoofbeats of horses. Take so much effort to fully appreciate the soldiers

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Light Brigade - soldiers’ glory

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When can their glory fade? […] Honour the charge they made!

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Light Brigade - sibilance

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Storm’d at with shot and shell

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Exposure - structure

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stanza structured in same way mirroring the emotional rollercoaster soldiers experience everyday

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Exposure - personification

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in the merciless iced east winds that knive us

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Exposure - bullets

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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

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Exposure - ghosts

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Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires

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Exposure - Pale flakes …

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Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces

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Storm on the Island - structure

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Blank verse = iambic pentameter with no rhyme, contrasting uncontrolled conflict, as he infuses tradition of English poetry with Irish ancestry

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Storm on the Island - we are …

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we are prepared: we built our house squat

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Storm on the island - leaves …

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leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale

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Storm on the Island - oxymoron

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You might think sea is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs

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Storm on the Island - simile and juxtaposition

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The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage

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Bayonet Charge - structure

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Many similes to try to make the horror easier to understand

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Bayonet Charge - tear

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The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye

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Bayonet Charge - personification

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Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

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Bayonet Charge - symbolism of nature

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Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

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Bayonet Charge - ‘hare’

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representing nature, being one of the victims of the war

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Bayonet Charge - patriotism

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King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm

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Remains - structure

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Combining domestic and military language to show his trauma happening everyday

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Remains - violence

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I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side

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Remains - questioning himself

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Probably armed, possibly not

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Remains - taking responsibility

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His bloody life in my bloody hands

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Remains - caesura

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Then I’m home on leave. But I blink

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Poppies - structure

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chaotic, uncontrolled (Free verse) to reflect the chaotic impact of conflict

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Poppies - metaphor

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spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias

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Poppies - ‘spasms of paper red’

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Highlight pain and suffering. Colour connotation reflect her fear

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Poppies - bird and dove

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released a song bird from its cage. Later a single dove flew from.

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Poppies - clothings

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busy making tucks, darts […] without reinforcements of scarf

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Poppies - I resisted …

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I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair

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War Photographer - structure

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controlled stanza and rhyme scheme, reflect the society remains normal whilst with chaotic conflict outside

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War Photographer - military

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with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

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War Photographer - disrupt innocence

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fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children

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War Photographer - readers …

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reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between bath and pre-lunch beer

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War Photographer - photo developing

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A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost

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Tissue - structure

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Enjambment and Free verse to reflect the lack of control

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Tissue - sun …

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Sun shines through their borderlines

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Tissue - architect

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An architect could use all this […] and never wish to build again with brick

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Tissue - living tissue

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trace a grand design with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last

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The Emigree - structure

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Disorganised with enjambment and free verse, reflecting chaos in her home town

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The Emigree - childhood

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I left as a child, but my memory of it is sunlight-clear

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The Emigree - motif

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sunlight: positivity about her home / life

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The Emigree - others

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I am branded by an impression of sunlight

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The Emigree - childhood language

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That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar

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The Emigree - personification

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My city takes me dancing through the city of walls

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Checking Out Me History - structure

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Lack of punctuation makes readers hard to understand the poem, reflect some of the history being left out

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Checking Out Me History - metaphor

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Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind to me own identity

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Checking Out Me History - History figures

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Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu

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Checking Out me History - Shaka de great Zulu

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influencial military leader of Zulu Kingdom, was obsessed with power later on

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Checking Out Me History - Toussaint

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Toussaint de thron to de French Toussaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution

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Checking Out Me History - himself

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now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity

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Kamikaze - structure

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Controlled stanza but free verse, contrast reflects conflict between himself and national duty

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Kamikaze - one-way

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full of power incantations and enought fuel for a one-way journey into history

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Kamikaze - ‘incantations’

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spell / charm: being brainwashed

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Kamikaze - fish metaphor

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Once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

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Kamikaze - internal battle

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pearl-grey pebbles to see whose withstood longest

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Kamikaze - metaphorically died

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he must have wondered which had been the better way to die

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