Poetry Power And Conflict

Question 1

How many paragraphs should you write?

Answer 1

3

Question 2

What should you compare?

Answer 2

Structure, Language, Tone

Question 3

What are the key themes of ozymandias?

Answer 3

Power of nature
Power of man is temporary

Question 4

What are key quotes for ozymadias and their techniques?

Answer 4

“Shattered visage”- Violent imagery
“King of kings”- biblical reference
“Sneer of cold command”- Plosives
“Lone and level sands stretch”- Alliteration
“Colossal wreck”- Oxymoron

Question 5

What form is ozymandias written in and why?

Answer 5

Sonnet form. Intended to mock

Question 6

Who was the Pharaoh ozymandias is based on?

Answer 6

Remises the second

Question 7

What type of poet is Shelly?

Answer 7

Romantic poet (Anti-Establishment)

Question 8

What is ozymandias good to compare with?

Answer 8

Prelude
Storm on the island
Tissue

Question 9

My last duchess key themes?

Answer 9

Patriarchal society
Power of man
Power of art ( picture will outlive him)

Question 10

My last Duchess key quotes and techniques/suggestions?

Answer 10

“That’s my last duchess”- possessive pronoun
“Looking as if she was alive”- sinister tone
“The curtain I have drawn for you”- Shows control
“Dies along her throat”- suggests being strangled
“My gift of a 900 year old name”- shows arrogance/ entitlement
“I gave commands then all smiles stopped”- Imperative
“Notice Neptune taking a sea horse”- Roman allusion (comparing himself to god)

Question 11

What form is My last duchess?

Answer 11

Dramatic monologue

Question 12

What does the use of lots of enjambement have?

Answer 12

Shows he is lost in his thoughts and is losing control of his emotions

Question 13

What does the use of Rhyming couplets throughout MLD show?

Answer 13

Shows the duke has complete control

Question 14

Was the duke a real person and how did his wife die?

Answer 14

The duke was a real person and his wife died in mysterious circumstances

Question 15

Key themes of Exposure?

Answer 15

Conflict between nature (Weather) and man
Highlighting the horror of war
Men in power have the control

Question 16

Key quotes from Exposure?

Answer 16

“Our brains ache”- Mental torture
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”- Metaphor
“But nothing happens”- Repetition
“Mad gusts tugging on the wire”- Personification
“For love of his seems dying”- losing faith
“All their eyes are ice”- dead imagery
“Our ghosts”- metaphor shows they are empty

Question 17

Where did Owen write this poem and how did he die?

Answer 17

He wrote this poem in the trenches and died during the conflict

Question 18

Key themes of Remains?

Answer 18

PTSD
Horror of war
War stays with you

Question 19

Key quotes and methods from remains?

Answer 19

“Probably armed possibly not”- adverb that suggests doubt
“I see Broad daylight on the other side”- metaphor
“We’ve hit this looter a dozen times”- literal language
“On the ground sort of inside out”- shocking imagery
“Tosses his guts back into his body”- Informal language
“End of story except not really”- shows the start of his PTSD
“His blood shadow stays on the street”- memory follows him around

Question 20

What form is remains written in?

Answer 20

4 stanzas of 4 lines (Very rigid)

Question 21

What war was remains about?

Answer 21

Iraq

Question 22

Who is Simon Armitage?

Answer 22

Poet laureate

Question 23

Key themes of Checking out Me history

Answer 23

Eurocentric school curriculum
Celebration of black history
Identity

Question 24

Key quotes/ techniques in Checking out me history?

Answer 24

“Blind me to my own identity”- metaphor
“Bandage up me eye with my own history”- metaphor
“Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale”
“Dem never tell me bout Mary seacole” (Nurse in the Crimean war)

Question 25

Why did Agard write the poem?

Answer 25

As a celebration on black history and his identity