Power and Conflict
Quotes and themes for each poem in the Power and Conflict section of the AQA anthology
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- Created on: 05-04-19 14:57
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- Ozymandias Percy Shelley
- Power of human
- Power of nature
- Pride
- 'Sneer of cold comments'
- 'The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed'
- 'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
- 'Nothing besides remains'
- 'I met a traveller from an antique land'
- Power and conflict
- London William Blake
- Power of humans
- Loss and Absence
- pride
- Anger
- 'chartered streets...where the chartered Thames does flow'
- 'mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
- 'mind forged manacles'
- 'Every black'ning church appals'
- 'blights with plagues the marriage hearse'
- The Prelude William Wordsworth
- Power of nature
- Loss and Absence
- Pride
- Fear
- 'Straight I unloosened her chain...it was an act of stealth'
- 'proud of his skill'
- 'grim shape towered up between me and the stars'
- 'huge and mighty forms...were a trouble to my dreams.'
- 'my boat went heaving through the water like a swan'
- My Last Duchess Robert Browning
- Pride
- Memory
- Fear
- Power of nature
- 'since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I'
- 'She had a heart -... to soon made glad'
- 'She liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere'
- 'as if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name / With anybody's gift'
- 'I gave commands; / then all smiles stopped altogether'
- The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Tennyson
- Conflict
- Identity
- 'Some on had blundered'
- 'Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not reason why / Theirs but to do and die'
- 'Into the jaws of death rode the 500' / 'Into the mouth of hell rode the 500'
- 'Cannon to the right of them / Cannon to the left of them / Cannon behind them'
- 'Honour the light Brigade! / Honour the charge they made! / Noble six hundred!'
- Exposure Wilfred Owen
- Power of nature
- Conflict
- Loss and Absence
- 'Our brains ache, in the merciless ices east winds that knife us...'
- 'Dawn masking ... her melancholy army'
- 'Pale Flakes with ********* stealth come feeling our faces -'
- 'Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed'
- 'All their eyes are ice / but nothing happens'
- Storm on the Island Seamus Heaney
- Power of Nature
- Power of Humans
- Fear
- 'We are prepared; we build our houses squat / Sink walls in a rock / roof with good slate'
- 'It pummels your houses too'
- 'Exploding comfortable
- 'We just sit tight wind dives / and strafes invisibly ... space is a salvo'
- 'Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear'
- Bayonet Charge Ted Hughes
- Conflict
- Individual experiences
- Fear
- 'Suddenly he awoke and was running'
- 'He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm'
- 'In bewilderment ... almost stopped-'
- 'King, honour, human dignity, etcetra'
- 'His terror's touchy dynamite'
- Remains Simon Armitage
- Conflict
- Memory
- Guilt
- Individual experiences
- 'On other occasion, we sent out / to tackle looters raiding a bank'
- 'probably armed, possibly not'
- 'I see every round as it rips through his life-'
- London William Blake
- London William Blake
- Power of humans
- Loss and Absence
- pride
- Anger
- 'chartered streets...where the chartered Thames does flow'
- 'mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
- 'mind forged manacles'
- 'Every black'ning church appals'
- 'blights with plagues the marriage hearse'
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