Poetry Notes Flashcards
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Bayonet Charge Ideas
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• focus on experience of unnamed soldier in conflict • sense of lack of preparation • sense of being out of control • sense of discomfort • sense of confusion • sense of pointlessness • sense of panic • sense that exulted ideas of patriotism are ‘dropped’ in the heat of the experience of conflict itself
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Bayonet Charge Form/Structure
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• free verse • stanza lengths consisting of 8 lines, then 7, then 8 • enjambement between 2nd and 3rd stanzas, and within stanzas • 3rd person narrative, but use of unnamed soldier as focaliser • 1st stanza focused on discomfort and lack of preparation/ feeling out of control • 2nd stanza focused on sudden confusion • 3rd stanza focused on panic • ‘green hedge’ in 1st and 3rd stanzas • pauses at end of line 9 and mid line 15
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Bayonet Charge Language
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- verbs conveying lack of control
- multi-sensory language
- imagery – lines: 5, 6, 8
- imagery of ‘clockwork’/ machinery
- hare as metaphor for soldier
- list of abstract nouns
- alliteration/ imagery in final line
4
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Charge of the Light Brigade Ideas
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- General gave out wrong orders
- Lack of preparation
- The soliders were noble heros, but were failed by their commander
- Sense of patriotism
- Sense of helplessness
- Sense of fate and doom
- The Russian soldiers protrayed as experts
5
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Charge of the Light Brogade Form/Structure
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- Anappestic tetrameter (symbolises sound of horse sound)
- 6 Stanzas, so each stanza equates to 100 people
- Enjambment in every stanza excpet the last
- Poem is in chornological order of the fight’s beginning, middle, to end
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Charge of the Light Brigade Language
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- Metaphor ‘All in the valley of death’
- Imperatives ‘Charge’
- Repitition of 600
- Imagery ‘Jaws of Death’
- Imagery ‘Mouth of Hell’
- Anaphora ‘Their’s’
- Sibilance ‘shot and shell’
- Alliteration ‘world wonder’d’
7
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Exposure Ideas
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- Long and droopy feeling created by the reader
- Shows the mental conflict inside the heads of soliders, as well as the conflict of war
- Focuses on the power of Nature vs Man
- Shows the helplessness of the soldiers in terms of the situation their in
- Shows that there’s no protection, as well as the harsh realities of war
8
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Exposure Form/Structure
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- 8 stanzas
- 5 lines in each stanza (the poem is uniform and organised, like the army)
- Elipses used to emphasise vunerability (line 2+38)
- Enjambment on line 13
- Enjambment on line 29
9
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Exposure Language
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- Repitition ‘Nothing happens’
- Rhetorical Question ‘What are we doing here?’
- Sibilance ‘streak the slience’
- Oxymoron ‘Innocent mice’
- Personification ‘knife us’
- Juxtaposition ‘Kind fires’
- Anaphora ‘for’
- Pathetic Fallacy of the ‘merciless iced east winds’ and the ‘poignant misery’
10
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Remains Ideas
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- The poem is a part of a large group of poems called the Not Dead. They were written in response to the testimonies of ex-soldiers
- Each poem is a flashback to one experience of a solider
- Conflict of the mind, and your conscience all ag once
- Conflict between the two sides at war
11
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Remains Form/Structure
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- It’s a super poem
- It’s a monologue
- 8 stanzas
- The first 7 stanzas are largely unrhymed quatrains, except the last stanza which has is 2
- Examples of enjambment, sometimes between stanzas which adds a sense of someone telling a story naturally.
- Half rhyme in stanza 4 to show how the speaker is unsettled from his own actions
- Rhyming couplet showing the narrator would like to end his confesion here but doesn’t
12
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Remains Language
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- Casual tone highlights that the killing is seen as normal
- Probably, more certain
- Possibly, less certain
- “I swear” - language used in the court of law, but also symbolises a confession in a monologue
- “Three of a kind”, ironic as it links with the 3 muskateers who fough for justice, not murder
- “Blood shadow” Shadows follow you around and this blood shadow is the fact that this murder follow his around and haunts him
- Sand - allusion to the end of Ozymandias
- Repitition of ‘bloody’ alludes to Macbeth and possibly the idea or remose and guilt.
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War Photographer Ideas
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- Idea of Ignorance v Reality
- Idea of Duty vs Moral Obligation
- Power of War crushing the powerlessness
- Ties in with the ignorance of the priviledged and the power of the conscience
- Call morals and ethics of society into view and qiestions the explicitly.
- Only sight is conveyed through photoss, no sound, or emotion (everything outside the photo is hidden)
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War Photographer Form/Structure
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- Volat at line 12
- Alternate Rhyming couplet
- In four regular six line stanzas
- Each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet
- The rigid, organised order of the structure contrasts the chaotic, disturbing images (it embodies the war photographer’s job)
- Cassuras between ‘Rural England’ show how disconnected it is with these images decribed
- Cyclical structure, starts with the photographer leaving a trip and ends with them going back out one one. I. Ties in with idea of fate
- Enjambment on lines 3 and 4
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War Photographer Language
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- Sibilance in ‘Solutions slop’
- ‘job to do’ is monosyllabic, hinting the photographer is becominb perfunctory (act carried out without real interest)
- Contrast between the warzones of Belfast ,Bierut, Phnom Penh and the separated and safe ‘Rural England’
- Emotive language of ‘running children in a nightmare heat’
- Hyperbole: ‘a hundred agonies’
- “reader’s eyeballs prock with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers” shows irony, as well as the highlighting the differing lifestyles
- “Half-formed ghost” - a photo of a person who is half dead while the photo is half formed.
