Themes in Conflict Poems for GCSE Anthology
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- Themes
- Reality of Battles
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- "Storm'd at with shot and shell"
- Chaos, noise and anger are all vivid
- "Jaws of death"
- Bayonet Charge
- "His terrors touchy dynamite"
- "suddenly"
- "Patriotic fear that HAD brimmed in his eye"
- Mametz Wood
- ""A chit of bone..."
- "The boots outlasted them"
- "the relic of a finger"
- Belfast Confetti
- "Suddenly"
- "A burst of rapid fire"
- The poem has a rather rapid speed
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- Patriotism
- Next to of Course God America I
- "Heroic happy dead"
- "Ohh say can you see"
- "Thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry"
- Flag
- "Brings a nation to its knees"
- "Makes the guts of men grow bold"
- "Blind your conscious to the end"
- Charge of the Light Brigade
- "When can their glory fade"
- "Theirs not to make reply..."
- Next to of Course God America I
- Individual Experiences
- Poppies
- "i was brave"
- Breaks down as the poem progresses
- Looks back on the past for comfort
- At the Border
- Sense of confusion about the idea of "home"
- Poppies
- Divided Society
- Belfast Confetti
- The obstructions of the "stops and colons"
- At the Border
- Artificial border
- But it means so much
- Artificial border
- Belfast Confetti
- Nature
- Bayonet Charge
- "Towards the green hedge"
- Artificial activities happening in a natural setting
- Mametz Wood
- "Earth stands sentinel"
- "Broken birds egg of a skull"
- "Tended the land back into itself"
- The Falling Leaves
- "snowflakes wiping out the noon"
- Leaves aren't falling naturally - "No wind willed them"
- Hawk Roosting
- Hawks have controlling nature
- Violence in a natural setting
- "I hold creation in my foot"
- Bayonet Charge
- Sadness and Loss
- Poppies
- "slowly melting"
- "Your playground voice catching on the wind
- Very maternal
- Futility
- Use of rhetorical questions to show fustration
- Show their anger in loss - "cold star"
- "Gently" "Whispering" - show they still care
- Falling Leaves
- "They fell like snowflakes"
- "Dropping from their tree"
- "Beauty strewed"
- Come On, Come Back
- "has left her just alive"
- The loss of her memory weakens the effect of taking her own life
- "Icy amorous embrace"
- Poppies
- Death
- Mametz Wood
- Reflects on the lasting effect that death can have
- "China plate of a shoulder"
- Come On, Come Back
- Its as though she's dead before she ended her life
- "Only her memory is dead forevermore"
- Hawk Roosting
- Glorifies death
- "Perfect kills and eat"
- Mametz Wood
- Conflict - Causes
- Next to of Course God America I
- Flag
- "blind your conscious to the end"
- "Dares the coward to relent"
- People are easily influenced by "just a flag"
- Yellow Palm
- Religion can be a cause
- "Golden mosque"
- "Blood on the walls"
- Helplessness
- Belfast Confetti
- "Narrator struggles to cope with a situation beyond his control
- "Know this labyrinth so well"
- Futility
- Getting frustrated at the sun because there's nothing that they can do
- "Fatuous sunbeams"
- Out of the Blue
- "Small in the clouds"
- Does anybody see a soul worth saving?"
- Belfast Confetti
- Reality of Battles
- At the Border
- Sense of confusion about the idea of "home"
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