power and conflict poetry Flashcards
1
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who wrote Ozymandias?
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
2
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who wrote London?
A
William Blake
3
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who wrote The Prelude?
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William Wordsworth
4
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who wrote My Last Duchess?
A
Robert Browning
5
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who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade?
A
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6
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who wrote Exposure?
A
Wilfred Owen
7
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who wrote Storm on the Island?
A
Seamus Heaney
8
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who wrote Bayonet Charge?
A
Ted Hughes
9
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who wrote Remains?
A
Simon Armitage
10
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who wrote Poppies?
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Jane Weir
11
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who wrote War Photographer?
A
Carol Ann Duffy
12
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who wrote Tissue?
A
Imtiaz Dharker
13
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who wrote The Emigrée?
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Carol Rumens
14
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who wrote Checking Me Out History?
A
John Agard
15
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who wrote Kamikaze?
A
Beatrice Garland
16
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what could you compare Ozymandias with?
A
London, The Prelude, My Last Duchess
17
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what could you compare London with?
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Ozymandias, Storm on the Island
18
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what could you compare The Prelude with?
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Ozymandias
19
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what could you compare My Last Duchess with?
A
Ozymandias
20
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what could you compare The Charge of the Light Brigade with?
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Kamikaze, Checking Out Me History, Bayonet Charge
21
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what could you compare Exposure with?
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Bayonet Charge, Remains
22
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what could you compare Storm on the Island with?
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London, The Emigrée
23
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what could you compare Bayonet Charge with?
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Kamikaze
24
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what could you compare Remains with?
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Exposure, War Photographer
25
what could you compare Poppies with?
Kamikaze
26
what could you compare War Photographer with?
Remains, The Emigrée
27
what could you compare Tissue with?
The Emigrée
28
what could you compare The Emigrée with?
Storm on the Island, War Photographer, Tissue
29
what could you compare Checking Out Me History with?
The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Emigrée
30
what could you compare Kamikaze with?
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Poppies, Bayonet Charge
31
"a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"
Ozymandias, Shelley
32
"a __ visage lies, whose __ and wrinkled lip, and __ of cold __"
shattered, frown, sneer, command
33
"'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'"
Ozymandias, Shelley
34
"'My name is __, King of __: Look on my works, ye __, and __!'"
Ozymandias, Kings, Mighty, despair
35
"Nothing beside remains... boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away"
Ozymandias, Shelley
36
"Nothing beside remains... __ and bare, The lone and __ sands __ far away"
boundless, level, stretch
37
"I wander through each chart'd street, Near where the chart'd Thames does flow"
London, Blake
38
"I wander through each __ street, Near where the chart'd Thames does __"
chart'd, flow
39
"Every black'ning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls."
London, Blake
40
"Every __ Church appalls, And the __ Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down __ walls."
black'ning, hapless, palace
41
"How youthful harlots curse / Blasts the new-born infant's tear, And blights with plagues the marriage hearse."
London, Blake
42
"How youthful __ curse / __ the new-born infant's tear, And __ with plagues the marriage __."
harlots, Blasts, blights, hearse
43
"One summer (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cove, its usual home."
The Prelude, Wordsworth
44
"One __ (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a __ tree Within a rocky cove, its usual __."
summer, willow, home
45
"Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light."
The Prelude, Wordsworth
46
"Small circles __ idly in the moon, Until they __ all into one track Of sparkling __."
glittering, melted, light
47
"Went heaving through the water like a swan; When, from behind that craggy steep till then / The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge"
The Prelude, Wordsworth
48
"Went heaving through the water like a __; When, from behind that __ steep till then / The __ bound, a huge peak, black and __"
swan, craggy, horizon's, huge
49
"There hung a darkness, call it solitude / Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes remained"
The Prelude, Wordsworth
50
"There hung a __, call it __/ Or __ desertion. No familiar shapes __"
darkness, solitude, blank, remained
51
"too soon made glad, Too easily impressed, she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere."
My Last Duchess, Browning
52
"too soon made glad, Too easily __, she liked __ She looked on, and her looks went __."
impressed, whate'er, everywhere
53
"She thanked men, -good! but thanked Somehow -I know not how- as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift."
My Last Duchess, Browning
54
"She __ men, -good! but thanked Somehow -I know not how- as if she __ My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old __ With anybody's gift."
thanked, ranked, name
55
"Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile?"
My Last Duchess, Browning
56
"Oh sir, she __, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her, but who __ without Much the same smile?"
smiled, passed
57
"Notice Neptune, though, Taming a seahorse, thought a rarity"
My Last Duchess, Browning
58
"Notice __, though, Taming a __, thought a rarity"
Neptune, seahorse
59
"Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd"
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson
60
"Not tho' the __ knew Some one had __"
soldier, blunder'd
61
"Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred."
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson
62
"Into the jaws of __, Into the mouth of __ Rode the six hundred."
Death, Hell
63
"Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!"
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson
64
"Honour the __ they made! __ the Light Brigade, __ six hundred!"
charge, Honour, Noble
65
"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
Exposure, Owen
66
"Our brains __, in the merciless __ east winds that __ us..."
ache, iced, knive
67
"Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles"
Exposure, Owen
68
"Like twitching __ of men among its __. Northward, incessantly, the __ gunnery rumbles"
agonies, brambles, flickering
69
"Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed With crusted dark-red jewels"
Exposure, Owen
70
"Slowly our __ drag home: glimpsing the __ fires, glozed With __ dark-red __"
ghosts, sunk, crusted, jewels
71
"Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us... The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces"
Exposure, Owen
72
"Tonight, this frost will __ on this mud and us... The burying-party, picks and __ in shaking __, Pause over __ faces"
fasten, shovels, grasp, half-known
73
"We are prepared: we build our houses squat"
Storm on the Island, Heaney
74
"We are __: we build our houses __"
prepared, squat
75
"you know what I mean - leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale"
Storm on the Island, Heaney
76
"you know what I mean - __ and branches Can raise a __ chorus in a __"
leaves, tragic, gale
77
"the flung spray hits The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage."
Storm on the Island, Heaney
78
"the __ spray hits The very windows, __ like a tame cat Turned __."
flung, spits, savage
79
"Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
Storm on the Island, Heaney
80
"Strange, it is a huge __ that we fear."
nothing
81
"Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy"
Bayonet Charge, Hughes
82
"Suddenly he __ and was running - raw In __ hot khaki, his __ heavy"
awoke, raw-seamed, sweat
83
"In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Was he the hand pointing that second?"
Bayonet Charge, Hughes
84
"In what __ clockwork of the stars and the __ Was he the hand __ that second?"
cold, nations, pointing
85
"He plunged past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, King, honour, human dignity, etcetera- Dropped like luxuries"
Bayonet Charge, Hughes
86
"He __ past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, __, honour, human __, etcetera- Dropped like __"
plunged, King, dignity, luxuries
87
"probably armed, possibly not"
Remains, Armitage
88
"probably __, possibly not"
armed
89
"and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony."
Remains, Armitage
90
"and he's there on the __, sort of inside out, __ itself, the image of __."
ground, pain, agony
91
"End of story, except not really. His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol I walk right over it week after week."
Remains, Armitage
92
"End of __, except not really. His blood-__ stays on the street, and out on __ I walk right over it week after week."
story, shadow, patrol
93
"Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not. Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds."
Remains, Armitage
94
"__, and he's probably armed, possibly not. __, and he's torn apart by a dozen __."
Sleep, Dream, rounds
95
"not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert land."
Remains, Armitage
96
"not left for __ in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-__ land or six-feet-under in __ land."
dead, smothered, desert
97
"I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose, play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little."
Poppies, Weir
98
"I wanted to __ my nose across the __ of your nose, play at being __ like we did when you were little."
graze, tip, Eskimos
99
"I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair."
Poppies, Weir
100
"I resisted the __ to run my fingers through the gelled __ of your hair."
impulse, blackthorns
101
"I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest. A split second and you were away, intoxicated."
Poppies, Weir
102
"I was __, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world __ like a treasure chest. A split second and you were away, __."
brave, overflowing, intoxicated
103
"On reaching the top of the hill I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone"
Poppies, Weir
104
"On reaching the top of the hill I traced the __ on the war memorial, leaned against it like a __"
inscriptions, wishbone
105
"The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch, I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind."
Poppies, Weir
106
"The dove pulled freely against the sky, an __ stitch, I listened, hoping to hear your __ voice catching on the __."
ornamental, playground, wind
107
"In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows"
War Photographer, Duffy
108
"In his __ room he is finally alone with spools of __ set out in ordered rows. The only light is __ and softly glows"
dark, suffering, red
109
"Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat."
War Photographer, Duffy
110
"Rural England. Home again to ordinary __ which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t __ beneath the feet of running children in a __ heat."
pain, explode, nightmare
111
"A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost."
War Photographer, Duffy
112
"A stranger’s features faintly start to __ before his eyes, a half-formed __."
twist, ghost
113
"A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers."
War Photographer, Duffy
114
"A hundred __ in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s __. The reader’s eyeballs __ with tears between the __ and pre-lunch beers."
agonies, supplement, prick, bath
115
"Paper thinned by age or touching, the kind you find in well-used books, the back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories"
Tissue, Dharker
116
"Paper thinned by age or __, the kind you find in __ books, the back of the Koran, where a __ has written in the names and __"
touching, well-used, hand, histories
117
"The sun shines through their borderlines, the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds"
Tissue, Dharker
118
"The sun shines through their __, the marks that rivers make, __, railtracks, __"
borderlines, roads, mountainfolds
119
"raise a structure never meant to last, of paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent, turned into your skin."
Tissue, Dharker
120
"raise a __ never meant to last, of paper smoothed and __ and thinned to be __, turned into your skin."
structure, stroked, transparent
121
"There once was a country… I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear"
The Emigrée, Rumens
122
"There once was a country… I left it as a child but my memory of it is __-clear"
sunlight
123
"It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
The Emigrée, Rumens
124
"It may be at __, it may be sick with __, but I am branded by an __ of sunlight.
war, tyrants, impression
125
"They accuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city. My city hides behind me. They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight."
The Emigrée, Rumens
126
"They accuse me of __, they circle me. They accuse me of being __ in their free city. My city hides behind me. They mutter __, and my shadow falls as __ of sunlight."
absence, dark, death, evidence
127
"Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me / Bandage up me eye with me own history / Blind me to my own identity"
Checking Out Me History, Agard
128
"__ tell me Wha dem want to tell me / __ up me eye with me own history / Blind me to my own __"
Dem, Bandage, identity
129
"Nanny / see-far woman of mountain dream / fire-woman struggle"
Checking Out Me History, Agard
130
"Nanny / __ woman of mountain dream / fire-woman __"
see-far, struggle
131
"a healing star among the wounded / a yellow sunrise to the dying"
Checking Out Me History, Agard
132
"a __ star among the wounded / a __ sunrise to the dying"
healing, yellow
133
"Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me / But now I checking out me own history / I carving out me identity"
Checking Out Me History, Agard
134
"Dem tell me wha dem want to __ me / But now I checking out me own __ / I __ out me identity"
tell, history, carving
135
"a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history"
Kamikaze, Garland
136
"a __ sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful __ and enough fuel for a __ journey into history"
samurai, incantations, one-way
137
"he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"
Kamikaze, Garland
138
"he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats __ out like __ on a green-blue __ sea"
strung, bunting, translucent
139
"And though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed"
Kamikaze, Garland
140
"And though he came back my __ never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his __ and the neighbours too, they __ him as though he no longer __"
mother, eyes, treated, existed
141
"And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die."
Kamikaze, Garland
142
"And sometimes, she said, he must have __ which had been the better way to __."
wondered, die
143
what's the context/theme behind Ozymandias?
romanticism, nature overcoming humanity's rule
144
what's the context/theme behind London?
romanticism, government control, inspired by Bastille
145
what's the context/theme behind The Prelude?
romanticism, nature being almighty, Wordsworth's own experience
146
what's the context/theme behind My Last Duchess?
written in perspective of the Duke of Ferrara, control over women
147
what's the context/theme behind The Charge of the Light Brigade?
the Crimean war, shows how nationalism can warp people's views
148
what's the context/theme behind Exposure?
Owen's own experience in WW1, how the conditions of war were worse than the combat in some ways
149
what's the context/theme behind Storm on the Island?
Heaney's Irish heritage, Stormont and Ireland's political turbulence
150
what's the context/theme behind Bayonet Charge?
WW1, though Hughes was not in it himself, losing faith in your country, war wrecking nature
151
what's the context/theme behind Remains?
Guardsman Tromans' experience in war, PTSD from war
152
what's the context/theme behind Poppies?
mothers in the war losing sons/husbands, grief and childhood nostalgia
153
what's the context/theme behind War Photographer?
the experience of taking photos of the horrors or war, the lack of care people have for war unless it's affecting them
154
what's the context/theme behind Tissue?
how things weren't made to last, paper telling a life story
155
what's the context/theme behind The Emigrée?
emigrating as a child and not realising how bad things were, disrespect received by emigrants
156
what's the context/theme behind Checking Out Me History?
how history is told by the victors, how the history curriculum is whitewashed and ignores black history
157
what's the context/theme behind Kamikaze?
kamikaze pilots in the WW2, tradition, too much faith in your country can be harmful
