Power and Conflict Poetry Flashcards
Power of Nature Poems
-Exposure
-Kamikaze
Effects of Conflict Poems
-The Charge of the Light Brigade
-Exposure
-Bayonet Charge
-Remains
-Poppies
-War Photographer
-Kamikaze
Reality of Conflict Poems
-The Charge of the Light Brigade
-Exposure
-Bayonet Charge
-Remains
-War Photographer
Loss and Absence Poems
-Exposure
-Poppies
-Kamikaze
Memory Poems
-Remains
-Poppies
-War Photographer
-Kamikaze
Anger Poems
-War Photographer
Guilt Poems
-Remains
-War Photographer
Fear Poems
-Bayonet Charge
-Poppies
Identity Poems
-The Charge of the Light Brigade
-Poppies
-Kamikaze
Individual Experiences Poems
-Bayonet Charge
-Remains
-Poppies
-War Photographer
-Kamikaze
Exposure Power of Nature
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us.”
“But nothing happens”
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces.”
Kamikaze Power of Nature
“Shoals of fishes flashing silver.”
“Strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea.”
“A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”
Poppies Loss and Absence
“Crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade.”
“Without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves”
“I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial”
Kamikaze Loss and Absence
“And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die.”
“Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”
“They treated him as though he no longer existed”
Exposure Loss and Absence
“But nothing happens”
“All their eyes ice”
“Shutters and doors, all closed: on us all the doors are closed”
Remains Guilt
“His bloody life in my bloody hands.”
“Probably armed, possibly not”
“His bloody life-shadow stays on the street at night”
War Photographer Guilt
Comparison: “of running children in a nightmare heat” and “Rural England.”
“His hands, which did not tremble then, though seem to now”
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
Poppies Identity
“Play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little.”
“Yellow bias binding around your blazer”
“To hear your playground voice catching on the wind”
Kamikaze Identity
“Full of powerful incantations”
“Father’s boat safe -yes grandfather’s boat- safe”
“They treated him as though he no longer existed”
Charge of the Light Brigade Identity
“When can their glory fade?”
“Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade”
“Flash’d all their sabres bare, flash’d as they turned in air”
Bayonet Charge Individual Experiences
“What cold clockwork of the stars and the nations”
“Open, silent, its eyes standing out”
“Suddenly he awoke and was running.”
War Photographer Individual Experiences
“In his darkroom he is finally alone”
“A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes.”
“From the aeroplane he stares at where he earns his living and they do not care.”
Remains Individual Experiences
“Three of a kind all letting fly”
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
“His blood-shadow stays on the street at night”
Charge of the Light Brigade Effects of Conflict
“Into the valley of Death”
“Not the six hundred”
“When can their glory fade?”
