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Poetry (Power And Conflict) Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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‘The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’

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Ozymandias

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2
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‘Of that colossal wreck’

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Ozymandias

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‘Runs in blood down palace wall’

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London

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‘The horizon’s bound. A huge peak black and huge’

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Extract from the prelude

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‘As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred year old name with anybody’s gift’

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My last duchess

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6
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‘Taming a seahorse’

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My last duchess

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7
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‘Theirs but to do or die
Into the valley of death

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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8
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‘Like twitching agonies of men among it’s brambles’

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Exposure

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9
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‘Exploding comfortably’

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Storm on the Island

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10
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‘In raw-steamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy’

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Bayonet Charge

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11
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‘One of my mates tosses his guts back into his body’

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Remains

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12
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‘Play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little’

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Poppies

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13
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‘To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat’

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War Photographer

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14
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‘Maps too. The sun shines through’

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Tissue

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‘I have no passport, there’s no way back at all but my city comes to me in its own white plane’

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The Emigrée

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16
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‘Dem tell
Dem tell me what they want to tell me
But now I am checking out me own history
I carving out my own identity’

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Checking Out Me History

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‘The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun’

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Kamikaze

18
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‘And remembered how he and his brothers waiting in the shore’

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Kamikaze

19
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‘What are we doing here?’

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Exposure

20
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‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’

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Exposure

21
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‘Shatter’d visage’

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Ozymandias - Ironic as even a human cannot control the damaging effects of time

22
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‘Boundless and Bare’

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Ozymandias - Feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert

23
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‘A sneer of cold command’

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Ozymandias - was arrogant and knew he was powerful

24
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‘Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things’

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Ozymandias - Having ‘survive’ and ‘lifeless’ in the sentence shows that art humans can try and be immortal but they won’t live a life that is worth living

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‘I wander through each chartered street’

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London - ‘I’ makes it personnel and believable and ‘each chartered street’ shows how the whole city is affected

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‘Charted Thames does flow’

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London - The River Thames is under control of humans showing the power of humans over nature

27
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‘Marks of weakness marks if woe’

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London - Repetition emphasises the feeling bleakness

28
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‘Runs in blood down palace wall’

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London - People behind the palace walls do not suffer

29
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‘Mind-forged manicales’

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London - Suggests people are even blaming themselves and are trapped in their own attitudes and are hopeless

30
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‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces - we cringe in holes’

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Exposure by Wilfred Owen

31
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‘Suddenly he awoke and he was running - raw in seamed hot kahki’

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Bayonet Charge - Hughes

32
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‘Is it that we are dying?’

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Exposure - Wilfred Owen

33
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‘Dawn massing in the east he melancholy army’

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Exposure - Owen

34
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‘Slowly our Ghosts drag home’

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Exposure Owen showing that the journey is painful and slow

35
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‘Cold Clockwork’

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Bayonet Charge - Alliterative painful eternal suffering

36
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‘Glimpsing the sunken fires, glozed with crusted dark jewels’

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Turn to each other which are jewels

37
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‘Threw up a hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle’

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Bayonet Charge

38
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‘Merciless east winds that Knive us’

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Exposure

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