Power and Conflict poems Flashcards
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What are some Ozymandias quotes?
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- ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone’
- ‘Half sunk a shattered visage lies’
- ‘Sneer of cold command’
- ‘The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’
- ‘Look upon my works, ye Mighty and despair!’
- ‘Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare’
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What are some London quotes?
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- ‘chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow’
- ‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe
- ‘Mind forged manacles I hear’
- ‘Every black’ning church appals’
- ‘Hapless soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down palace walls
- ‘Blasts the new-born infant’s tear’
- ‘And blights with plagues the marriage hearse’
3
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What are some exposure quotes?
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- ‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
- ‘Mad gusts of winds tugging on the wire’
- ‘Twitching agonies of men among its brambles’
- ‘Far off like a dull rumour of another war’
- ‘Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army’
- ‘Attacks once more in shivering ranks of grey’
- ‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’
- ‘Air that shudders black with snow’
- ‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
- ‘All their eyes are ice’
4
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What are some Storm on the Island quotes?
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- ‘We build our houses squat’
- ‘Sink walls in rock’
- ‘The wizened earth has never troubled us’
- leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’
- ‘Exploding comfortably’
- ‘Spits like a tamed cat turned savage’
- ‘Wind dives and strafes invisibly’
- ‘Space is a salvo’
- ‘We are bombarded by the empty air.’
- ‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’
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What are some Remains quotes?
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- ‘On another occasion we got sent out’
- ‘legs it’ , ‘mates’ , ‘tosses’
- ‘Probably armed, possibly not’
- ‘I see every round as it rips through his life-I see broad daylight on the other side’
- ‘He’s there on the ground, sort of inside out’
- ‘His blood-shadow stays on the street’
- ‘Sleep…’ , ‘Dream…’
- ‘Dug in behind enemy lines’
- ‘Not left for tead in some distant, sun-stunned sand smothered land’
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What are some Tissue quotes?
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- ‘Paper that lets the light shine through’
- ‘The kind you find in well-used books’
- ‘Smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention’
- ‘If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift’
- ‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines’
- ‘Fly our lives like paper kites’
- ‘let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths’
- ‘living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last’
- ‘turned into your skin’
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What are some Bayonet Charge quotes?
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- ‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’
- ‘raw In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy’
- ‘dazzled with rifle fire’
- ‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
- ‘He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm’
- ‘Patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
- ‘Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest’
- ‘In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second?
- ‘Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’
- ‘King, honour human dignity etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm’
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What are some ‘The Emigrée’ quotes?
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- ‘There once was a country…’
- ‘My memory of it sunlight clear’
- ‘bright, filled paperweight’
- ‘sick with tyrants’
- ‘branded by an impression of sunlight’
- ‘time rolls its tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves’
- ‘like a hollow doll opens and spills a grammar’
- ‘every coloured molecule of it’, ‘tastes of sunlight’
- ‘docile as paper’
- ‘My city takes me dancing through the city of walls’
- ‘They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight’
9
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What is the context of Ozymandias?
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- In 1817 there were preperations for British to take a statue from Egypt
- Statue of Rameses II
- King George involved in many conflicts-likened to Rameses-anti monarchy?
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What is the context of London?
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- Blake was a Romantic poet
- He lived in London all his life-loved the city
- Pro-revolution anti establishment
- London rapidly changed during the 18th centure due to industrialisation
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What is the context of The Prelude?
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- Wordsworth started the English Romantic movement
- His parents died when he was a child
- The prelude is a long autobiographical ‘epic’ poem-in 14 sections
- Journey explored representative for a man’s spiritual journey
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What is the context of My Last Duchess?
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- Robert Browning was best known for his dramatic monologue
- Reflects his love of history and European culture
- Story is based on the life of an Italian Duke from the 16th century
- The women was the 1st of 7 wives who died after 3 years-married by 14 died by 17
- Attitudes of women were starting to change
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What is the context of The Charge of the Light Brigade?
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- Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the poem in a few minutes
- British fighting the russions Battle of Balaclava-crimean war
- Writer wasn’t there-found inspiration in a newspaper
- Lord Raglan decided to attack the Russions-order misinterpreted-sent soldiers down a valley with swords whilst Russians had guns
- 100-200 soldiers died in 20 mins
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What is the context of Exposure?
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- Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier in WW1
- He was a soldier then officer
- He died 1 week before the war ended-mother found out he had died on Armistice day
- His realistic war poetry was a massive contrast to the public veiw and previously patriatic poems
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What is the context of Storm on the Island?
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- Seamus Heaney was the eldest out of 9 children
- Born in Northern Ireland
- Much of his poetry based on countryside + farm life
- Poem published before the troubles
- Storm-likens to Stormant-name of parliament building
- Ireland + island homophones
