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Power And Conflict Poems Flashcards

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List all 15 of the power and conflict poems

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Ozymandias
London
The prelude
My last duchess
The charge of the light brigade
Exposure
Storm on the island
Bayonet charge
Remains
Poppies
War photographer
Tissue
The Émigrée
Kamikaze
Checking out me history

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Who is Ozymandias by?

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Percy Shelley

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Who is London by?

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William Blake

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Who is the extract from the prelude by?

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William Wordsworth

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Who is my last duchess by?

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Robert browning

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The charge of the light brigade by?

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Alfred lord Tennyson

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Who is exposure by?

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Wilfred owen

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Who is storm on the island by?

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Seamus Heaney

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Who is bayonet charge by?

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Ted Hughes

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Who is remains by?

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Simon Armitage

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Who is poppies by?

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Jane Weir

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Who is War photographer by?

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Who is tissue by?

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Imtiaz Dharker

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Who is The Émigrée by?

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Carol Rumens

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Who is Kamikaze by?

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Beatrice Garland

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Who is Checking Out Me History by?

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John Agard

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What poem links with Ozymandias?

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‘My Last Duchess’
- both présent power of man
- both are dramatic monologues
- lots of use of enjambment

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What poem links with The Charge Of The Light Brigade?

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‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen
- both question the causes and highlight the realities of war
- COLB celebrates patriotism (devotion to one’s country’

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What poem links with Kamikaze?

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‘The prelude’ by William Wordsworth
- both face regret
- presents power of nature over man

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What poem links with war photographer?

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‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir
- shows domestic impact of conflict

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What poem links with Storm on the Island?

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‘The émigrée’ by Carol Rumens
- power of place
- power of nature

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What poem links with ‘checking out me history’?

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‘London’ by William Blake
- power of identity
- COMH = education is to blame for power and conflict
- London = religion is to blame, human greed

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What poem links with ‘Tissue’?

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‘London’ by William Blake
- criticises various type of power e.g government, religious
- tissue is more positive alternative, how nature and the future can be better if you hold things loosely - like a tissue

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What poem links with ‘Bayonet Charge’?

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‘Remains’ by Simon Armitage (poet laureate)
- remains shows personal impact of war of someone left behind on field
- BC shows personal impact on soldier

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Guess the poem from the Quotes:

‘Boundless and bare’

‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’

‘Small circles glittering idly in the moon’

‘The mind-forged manacles I hear’

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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley- alliteration, shows destruction of his kingdom

Exposure by Wilfred Owen - sibilance, shows that war can be spontaneously dangerous, noise replicates bullets shot

The prelude by William Wordsworth- ripples, repeated L sounds (consonance) represents how nature can be enticing with its beauty but also can be truly powerful

London by William Blake - alliteration - draws attention to the metaphor - victims aren’t physically restrained but shows their belief in their own weakness and imprisonment

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What poem?

‘Half flush that dies along her throat’

‘Notice Neptune, though Taming a seahorse’

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My Last Duchess

  • alludes to her future of her death
  • god of the sea, he tamed his wife like a pet
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Name the poem

‘Jaws of death.. mouth of hell’

‘Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die’

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The charge of the light brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

-personification of the valley, the soldiers still carried on despite the fact they were riding into their own death

-they were commanded to give their lives unnecessarily and still stepped forward though they knew the consequences

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Name the poem

‘In the merciless iced east winds that knive us’

‘Pause over half known faces’ … ‘but nothing happens’

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Exposure by Wilfred Owen

  • personified wind, adjective shows that the wind is a threat, vivid imagery
  • final few lines are meaningless. Nothing changes, repetition of ‘but nothing happens’ symbolises repetitive nature of war
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Name the poem

‘Exploding comfortably’

‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’

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Storm on the islands by Seamus Heaney

  • oxymoron, they are used to it by now as they have experienced it before, juxtaposition
  • power of nature, the whole of Northern Ireland feels like it is being messed about
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Name the poem

‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’

‘His terrors touchy dynamite’

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Bayonet charge by Ted Hughes

  • poem begins in in media res, implies that fighting could take place at any moment, also could symbolise that everything feels surreal until you step onto battlefield and that’s when he awoke

-metaphor, ‘t’ creates plosive sounds like a ticking boom, his life is limited

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Name the poem

‘On another occasion’

‘Sort of inside out’

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Remains by Simon Armitage

  • in media res is used at beginning of poem, symbolises that he has had multiple occasions that have badly affected him
  • child like description, has been poorly educated/ war has affected his memory badly
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Name the poem

‘Steeled the softening of my face’

‘I was brave’

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Poppies by Jane Weir

  • stopping herself from ageing by holding back from crying, sibilance replicates her sniffling
  • declarative statement, has been hiding true emotions until now
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Name the poem

‘The blood stained into foreign dust’

‘Spools of suffering’

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War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy

  • adjective ‘stained’ suggests that the memories and feelings associated with war will be forever imprinted onto this foreign land
  • sibilance, sounds sinister describing photographs emphasises the dark content on pictures
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Name the poem

‘Paper that lets the light shine through’

‘Turned into your skin’

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Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker

  • represents God, the symbol of truth, paper is extended metaphor
  • shows how humans can be fragile like tissues
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Name the poem

‘There once was a country…’

‘My memory of it is sunlight-clear’

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The Émigrée by Carol Rumens

  • she’s reminiscing her country, ‘once’ symbolises that it isn’t the same as it was before, ‘…’ use of caesura. Begins like a fairytale
  • she thinks about it often as memory is a clear image in her head, pathetic fallacy
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Name the poem

‘Bandage up me eye’

‘Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’

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Checking out me history by John Agard

  • he felt as if he didn’t have a viewpoint of anything when he was younger, connotations of injury suggest he feels hurt by his sheltered upbringing
  • society tries to covers up the bad parts of today and the past because it is corrupt. repetition of ‘dem’ (phonetic spelling) highlights the control that white people had over history
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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same first letter of multiple words

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work

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Assonance

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The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea

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Caesura

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A short but definite pause used by punctuation for effect within a line of poetry

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonants in words

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Enjambment

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A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line

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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement used for effect

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Onomatopoeia

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A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described

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