Power and Conflict poems Flashcards
Who wrote London?
William Blake
Who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who wrote Exposure?
Wilfred Owen
Mr Rew with moustache
Who wrote Remains?
Simon Armitage
Who wrote War Photographer?
Carol Ann Duffy
Who wrote Kamikaze?
Beatrice Garland
What is the plot of London?
A flaneur observes London life and sees how everything is manipulated and corrupted. Everyone’s miserable and crying.
What is the plot of The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Six hundred members of the light brigade ride to battle in Crimea, Russia where they were screwed over and died.
What is the plot of Exposure?
Soldiers are at war but the weather is a greater danger than actual bullets. It exposes the terrible conditions and pointlessness of war.
What is the plot of Remains?
Soldier kills people in war and suffers with remorse and regret of killing another person. The remains of war.
What is the plot of War Photographer?
A War Photographer comes home and develops photos. In the darkroom, he sees “a half-formed ghost” only for it to be printed into the paper for people who don’t care.
What is the plot of Kamikaze?
The daughter of a Kamikaze pilot is telling his story to her children. He went to kill himself honorably and remembered fishing with his father and brothers when seeing the sea. He returned to his family and they ghosted him till he died internally.
London quotes
“I wander through each charted street”
“In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear”
“the mind-forged manacles I hear”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
The Charge of the Light Brigade quotes
“Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die”
“valley of death”
“Strom’d at with shot and shell”
“rode the six hundred”
Exposure quotes
“But nothing happens”
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy”
