Power And Conflict Poems

Question 1

List all 15 of the power and conflict poems

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Who is Ozymandias by?

Answer 2

Percy Shelley

Question 3

Who is London by?

Answer 3

William Blake

Question 4

Who is the extract from the prelude by?

Answer 4

William Wordsworth

Question 5

Who is my last duchess by?

Answer 5

Robert browning

Question 6

The charge of the light brigade by?

Answer 6

Alfred lord Tennyson

Question 7

Who is exposure by?

Answer 7

Wilfred owen

Question 8

Who is storm on the island by?

Answer 8

Seamus Heaney

Question 9

Who is bayonet charge by?

Answer 9

Ted Hughes

Question 10

Who is remains by?

Answer 10

Simon Armitage

Question 11

Who is poppies by?

Answer 11

Jane Weir

Question 12

Who is War photographer by?

Answer 12

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 13

Who is tissue by?

Answer 13

Imtiaz Dharker

Question 14

Who is The Émigrée by?

Answer 14

Carol Rumens

Question 15

Who is Kamikaze by?

Answer 15

Beatrice Garland

Question 16

Who is Checking Out Me History by?

Answer 16

John Agard

Question 17

What poem links with Ozymandias?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What poem links with The Charge Of The Light Brigade?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

What poem links with Kamikaze?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What poem links with war photographer?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What poem links with Storm on the Island?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What poem links with ‘checking out me history’?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What poem links with ‘Tissue’?

Answer 23

‘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

Question 24

What poem links with ‘Bayonet Charge’?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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’

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What poem? ‘Half flush that dies along her throat’ ‘Notice Neptune, though Taming a seahorse’

Answer 26

My Last Duchess - alludes to her future of her death - god of the sea, he tamed his wife like a pet

Question 27

Name the poem ‘Jaws of death.. mouth of hell’ ‘Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die’

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Name the poem ‘In the merciless iced east winds that knive us’ ‘Pause over half known faces’ … ‘but nothing happens’

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Name the poem ‘Exploding comfortably’ ‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Name the poem ‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’ ‘His terrors touchy dynamite’

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Name the poem ‘On another occasion’ ‘Sort of inside out’

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Name the poem ‘Steeled the softening of my face’ ‘I was brave’

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Name the poem ‘The blood stained into foreign dust’ ‘Spools of suffering’

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Name the poem ‘Paper that lets the light shine through’ ‘Turned into your skin’

Answer 34

Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker - represents God, the symbol of truth, paper is extended metaphor - shows how humans can be fragile like tissues

Question 35

Name the poem ‘There once was a country…’ ‘My memory of it is sunlight-clear’

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Name the poem ‘Bandage up me eye’ ‘Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Alliteration

Answer 37

The repetition of the same first letter of multiple words

Question 38

Anaphora

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Assonance

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Caesura

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Consonance

Answer 41

Repetition of consonants in words

Question 42

Enjambment

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Hyperbole

Answer 43

An exaggerated statement used for effect

Question 44

Onomatopoeia

Answer 44

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