Power and confict poems Flashcards
Ozymandias - Language quote: “These lifeless things.”
Metaphor - calls his people ‘things’ - disrespectful.
Ozymandias - Writers intent/context quote: “Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.”
Don’t abuse power of people will forget about you.
Ozymandias - Structure quote: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings.”
Sonnet, love poem. 11 syllables breaks the sonnet almost like his love is broken because he abused his power.
London - Language quote: “Chartered Thames does flow.”
Oxymoron, trying to control the river - exaggeration, over powering nature, ironic, you can’t control a river.
London - Writers intent/context quote: “The mind forged manacles I hear.”
Chains or handcuffs - mind is trapped, trapped in every way - trapped by government and society. Dictating your job, no choice but to work in a factory. ‘Forged’ verb links to factory work.
London - Structure quote: “And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.”
Children don’t have a childhood. Trying to sound happy but nothing positive comes out of them. They end with no progress made just like his poem about the Industrial Revolution, suggests that no progress was made during this time.
Extract from, The Prelude - Language quote: “Rocky cove, its usual home.”
Juxtaposition - ‘Rocky’ sounds dangerous but ‘home’ is safe and comforting.
Extract from, The Prelude - Writers intent/context quote: “A huge peak, black and huge.”
Nature is more powerful than one man. ‘my’ and ‘I’ seen it, personal experience (Personal pronouns).
Extract from, The Prelude - Structure quote: “Of sparkling light.”
One long stanza, nature stays the same, It was always in control. At the start he is unaware, in the middle of the stanza he starts to realise and then at the end he knows that nature will always be in control, because the stanza is so long it symbolises nature never ends and will always be in power over mankind.
The charge of the Light Brigade - Language quote: “Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why.”
Soldiers have been trained not to ask anything but to do what they’re told. Shows how brave they are even though they know they might not make it.
The charge of the Light Brigade - Writers intent/context quote: “Noble six hundred.”
Honour the soldiers sacrifice even if they died or survived.
The charge of the Light Brigade - Structure quote: “While horse and hero fell.”
Wrote 6 stanzas because there were 600 soldiers. Each stanza is a memorial for the soldiers.
Exposure - Language quote: “Our brains ache in the merciless iced winds that knive us.”
Metaphor - mentally killing them. ‘our’ collective pronoun, sense of community. Sibilance, sinister tone. ‘knive’ aggressive verb.
Exposure - Writers intent/context quote: “Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces.”
Tone - sad, slow, they are dying. Enemy - the weather, poem is all about the weather and it’s effects, suffering. Wants to show us the true reality of war and how negative it is. Go against propaganda.
Exposure - Structure quote: “But nothing happens.”
5th line of every stanza is short and doesn’t rhyme, shows us the true reality of war. Long poem, 8 stanzas and 5 lines each, elongates war. Each stanza could represent a month.
Storm on the island - Language quote: “Spits like a tame cat turned savage.”
Simile - animal imagery - animals are unpredictable just like a storm.
Strom on the island - Writers intent/context quote: “Storm on the island.”
The title. Stormont - parliament buildings in Ireland. ‘The Troubles’ direct reference to the terrorist attacks. Irish community are strong, they are not afraid. We should do the same, encouraging us.
Storm on the island - Structure quote: “You know what I mean.”
Colloquial language and direct address. “You know what I mean.” links in with the blank verse and natural pattern of speech. He is telling us how to survive the attacks or any attack. We feel that Heaney is talking to us naturally.
Bayonet charge - Language quote: “Suddenly he awoke and he was running - raw.”
Media-res, thrown into a quick pace, suggesting he doesn’t have time to think. No caesura - not slow - reader made to feel the same.
Bayonet charge - Writers intent/context quote: “King, honour, human dignity, etcetera. Dropped like luxuries.”
Simile - went to war for his king and honour - he’s lost everything. WW1 poem - poem about going over the top of the trenches - written from the perspective of a solder. Ted Hughes was not a soldier but his dad was.
Bayonet charge - Structure quote: “Stumbling across the field of clods towards a green hedge.”
Takes us on a journey. Stanza 1 - actions of the soldier. Stanza 2 - thoughts of the soldier. Stanza 3 - He’s going over the trenches and we see him start to lose himself.
Remains - Language quote: “Legs it up the road.”
Colloquial language - makes them sound more human, less serious, desensitises the horrific events.
Remains - Writers intent/context quote: “End of story, except not really.”
Not the end of the story for him, he has to live with the story, he still goes through pain. It will haunt him forever.
Remains - Structure quote: “Fly.” “Rips.”
Verb ‘fly’ doesn’t fit, what they want it to be like. ‘rips’ shows the aggressive reality and what the war is actually like.
Poppies - Language quote: “Released a songbird from its cage.”
Metaphor - end of their relationship, letting her tears out.
Poppies - Writers intent/context quote: “Slowly melting.”
Voice of all mothers, wrote in response to modern day conflicts, we need to remember the loss and pain, we don’t need to go through it again. Shows she is losing control. Suggests that saying goodbye is the hardest part.
Poppies - Structure quote: “Hat-less without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves.”
Suggests she his missing warmth, more importantly her sons warmth. Caesura, slows the poem down, Shows she wants to keep him for as long as possible. Starts with a grave and ends with a grave to show he is never coming back.
War photographer - Language quote: “Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
Juxtaposition - organising peoples suffering - views it as a job.
War photographer - Writers intent/context quote: “The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers.”
Meant to make us feel bad, she is criticizing us - we should feel bad but we are selfish and move on quickly. ‘tears’ and ‘beers’ - deliberately on the same line to show how quickly we move on from their suffering to out fun and games. We feel emotion but we’re back to our luxuries - angry at us because we don’t care.
War photographer - Structure quote: “Rural England.”
Caesura - to show that we are isolated from war and conflict. Creating distance - we are selfish as a nation.
The emigrée - language quote: “the bright filled paperweight”
Metaphor - It’s heavy which means it’s part of her, but most paperweights are made form glass fragile.
