Power and Conflict poetry Flashcards
Ozymandias Poet:
Shelley
London Poet:
Blake
Extract from, The Prelude Poet:
Wordsworth
My last Duchess poet:
Browning
Charge of the Light Brigade Poet:
Tennyson
Exposure Poet:
Owen
Storm on The Island Poet:
Heaney
Bayonet Charge Poet:
Hughes
Remains Poet:
Armitage
Poppies Poet:
Weir
War Photographer Poet:
Duffy
The Emigreé Poet:
Rumens
Checking Out Me History Poet:
Agard
Kamikaze Poet:
Garland
4 Ozymandias Quotes:
1) ‘King of Kings, look on my works, ye mighty, and despair’
2) ‘sneer of cold command’
3) ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’
4) ‘Half sunk, a shattered visage’
4 My last Duchess Quotes:
1) ‘That’s my last duchess painted on the wall’
2) ‘Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse
3) ‘Wilt please you sit and look at her’
4) ‘I know not how-‘
3 Checking Out Me History Quotes:
1) ‘Dem tell me’
2) ‘Bandage me eye with me own history’
3) ‘I carving out me history’
4 London Quotes:
1) ‘Every black’ning church’
2) ‘hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls’
3) ‘Mind forg’d manacles’
4) ‘Marriage hearse’
4 Storm on the Island Quotes:
1) ‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’
2) ‘The wizened earth’
3) ‘.Space is salvo.’
4) ‘Spits like a cat turned savage’
4 Extract from the Prelude Quotes:
1) ‘Towered up between me and the stars’
2) ‘(led by her)’
3) ‘elfin pinnacle’ to ‘huge peak, black and huge’
4) No familiar shapes’
5 War photographer Quotes:
1) Sinister language ‘dark room’ and ‘red light’
2) ‘A priest ready to intone for mass’
3) .Rural England.
4) ‘Beirut, Belfast, Phnom Penh’
5) ‘tears between the baths and pre-lunch beers’
3 Poppies Quotes:
1) ‘Single dove flew from the pear tree’
2) ‘Blackthorn of your hair’
3) ‘Sellotape bandaged around my hand’
4 The Emigreé Quotes:
1) ‘Sick with tyrants but I am branded by’ ‘sunlight’
2) ‘Docile as paper; I comb its hair’
3) ‘open and spills a grammar…every coloured molecule of it’
4) ‘They circle me’
5 Kamikaze quotes:
1) ‘My father embarked at sunrise’
2) ‘powerful incantation’
3) ‘fishing boats sprung out like bunting’
4) tuna, the dark price, muscular, dangerous.
5) ‘gradually we too learned to be silent’
4) Charge of the Light Brigade Quotes:
1) ‘Jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell’
2) ‘Cannon to the right, Cannon to the left’
3) ‘Charge’ ‘Into the valley of Death’
4) Honor the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred’
5) Bayonet Charge Quotes:
1) ‘Suddenly he awoke’
2) ‘Yellow hare’
3) ‘Cold clockwork of nature of star’
4) ‘King, Honor, Human dignity, etcetera’
5) ‘Patriotic tear’
5 Remains Quotes:
1) ‘On another occasion’
2) ‘ Well myself and somebody else and somebody else’
3) ‘His blood-shadow’
4) Sun stunned- sand smothered land
5) ‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’
5 Exposure Quotes:
1) ‘But nothing happens’
2) ‘flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces’
3) ‘We cringe in holes’
4) ‘Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds’
5) ‘ For love of God seems dying’
1 Ozymandias structure:
1) Sonnet form - mocking Ozymandias’ arrogance
2 London structure:
1) 4 regular stanza structure and tightly controlled rhyme scheme: comparison to the tightly controlled city of london
2) Regular rhyme scheme: reflects normality, the struggle for survival is common to every man
4 Extract from the prelude structure:
1) Epic poem: adventurous story about a hero - in this story nature is the heroine
2) One long stanza: confessional or overwhelms the reader mirroring the boy
3) One long stanza contradicted by enjambment: nature’s inability to be controlled as it is wild and untamable
4) Positive imagery which fades to negative imagery: idealistic view of nature from boy fades
2 My last duchess structure:
1) Dramatic monologue: Duke maintains control through poem - only person to speak
2) One constant structure contradicted enjambment, caesuras and tangents: chaotic structure evoked, Duke’s inability to control his inner reality conflicting with the appearance he displays.
2 The charge of the light Brigade structure:
1) Rhythmic and regular structure at the beginning - image of horses galloping (unstoppable). Fades towards the end, mirroring the failed military efforts
2) Six regular stanzas: like a memorial for 100 of the 600 fallen soldiers
3 Exposure structure:
1) Ellipsis, caesuras, repetition: sense of boredom and waiting, excruciating anticipation for the soldiers
2) Eight regular stanzas contradicted with enjambment, repetition, caesuras: unexpected power of nature on the soldiers
- alternatively, societies warped perception of war as straightforward
3) Pararhyme use: imperfect rhyme, reflecting how the soldiers’ satisfaction of closure of the situation never occurs - endless
3 Storm on the island structure:
1) One long stanza made of complex sentences: lack of break reflects overwhelming situation the narrator finds themself in
2) Enjambment: creates constant bombard of information mirroring relentless barrage of the storm
3) Colloquial contrasted with terrifying description of storm: narrator bringing order to a uncontrollable storm
2 Bayonet charge structure:
1)Enjambment and caesuras: chaotic and hard to follow structure, reflecting soldier overwhelmed
1 Remains structure:
1) Beginning colloquial language which fades to sinister as reader is bombarded with gruesome images
1 Poppies structure:
1) Free verse + No regular structure+ enjambment + caesuras: combine for a chaotic structure reflecting the mothers overwhelming emotions
2 War photographer structure:
1) Regular 6 line stanzas with regular rhyme scheme: photographer bringing order to chaos of war
2) cyclical structure: starts returning from trip and ends leaving for jobs - futility of his job
2 The emigreé structure:
1) caesuras, enjambment, free verse combiens for chaotic structure: speaker’s turmoil with reality and the past
2) regular structure: speaker bringing order to the chaos
4 Checking out me history structure:
1) Regular AB rhyme scheme: creates sense of normality, indicating corruption is ingrained into everyday life
2) Black figures isolated in italics on page:
- segregation of black figures from education system.
- Shows societies warped perception of these figures
3) Use of creole:
- poets history and identity overwhelms the eurocentric view in the poem
- creates informal tone, like it is used at home, Agard’s comfortability when finding his identity.
4) Rhythmic pace when speaking of the black figures: speed pace of poem creating sense of continuation, these figures won’t be forgotten and their stories live on
2 Kamikaze structure:
1) Tightly controlled structure: reflects tight control of the military and the culture if what someone should do
2) Tight structure contradicted with free verse and enjambment: the pilot’s desire for freedom encased within a tightly controlled society
