English Literature Poetry AQA Moon on the Tides CONFLICT

                               Poem 1:                                    Poem 2:

Introduction (focus on key words and perspective/ideas of poet)

Language comparison (techniques including imagery)

Form and Structure comparison (arrangement and endings)

Conclusion (focus on key words and ideas/message of poem)

Speaker: From a viewpoint of a solider who is running in an attack

Compare with: The Charge of the Light Brigade - The description of action in war.                         Mametz Wood - Contrast between war and its aftermath

                         Belfast Confetti - Language chosen to depict violence

Chosen key points: Metaphors, similes, onomatopia, imagery and personification used.

Chosen quotes: 'The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest' - painful burning in his chest, fighting with fear, tear of honour/pride then turns to no patriotism....just wants to get out of it.

'King, honour [....]' All patriotism lost. 'His terror's touchy dynamite' He's so scared he could explode. Running to get out of it.

Speaker: Young girl recalls her family, with many others, standing at a border checkpoint

Compare with: The Yellow Palm - how war can divide a country

                        Flag - the idea of national identity, but in a much different sense

                        The Right Word - the contrast between the innocence of childhood and the perception of adults

Chosen key points: mood of tension and optimism and joy, metaphor, caesura, enjambment, patriotism

Chosen key quotes: 'I can inhale home' - use of senses + anticipation

                                 Caesura used to make mothers announcement seem grand and significant.

                                 'A men bent down [....]' - Patriotic man, young child doesn't understand. Reaction seems exaggerated as the land is nothing special.

Speaker: Poet is talking about a war that isn't real

Compare with: Futility - death in war

                       The Yellow Palm - the effect of war on ordinary people

                       The Falling Leaves - the quiet, sad tone which hides the horror beneath

Chosen key points: metaphor, alliteration, repetition, emphases, language juxtaposes the sad confusion of the girl solider with natural images.

Chosen quotes: 'ominious' - hints something bad will happen

                           natural images contrast

                           'wild' - manic, no tune

                            '[....] memory is dead [....]' - deprieved of memory/identity

Speaker: 'Narrator's walk down Palestine Street in Baghdad reveals different terrible images

Compare with: The Right Word - repeated patterns to emphasise meaning and theme

                        Poppies - war affects on ordinary people

                        Belfast Confetti - conflict in the city streets

                        Futility - last stanza

Chosen key points: Repetition, metaphor, double meanings, enjambment, description with use of senses, child innocence

Chosen key quotes: 'no armistice' - no end, no solution, no peace, conflict carries on.'[....] turned up his face [....]' enjambment - carries on nothing stop

Speaker: 1st person in explosion

Compare with: The Yellow Palm - violence in a city

                        Bayonet Charge - images that leap from one to another to describe confusion

                        The Right Word - the theme of violence and those who might bring it                       Out of the Blue - building

Chosen key points: No structure (enjambment to show explosion), irregular, to achieve an eractic and fragmented feel within this poem. - confusion + explosion. Stilled effected now.

Chosen quotes: 'A fusillade of question - marks' - police/soliders, himself - confusion. turmoil, panic, nationality, future.

Speaker: Poet - considers the power of a simple piece of cloth, a flag.

Compare with: The Charge of the Light Brigade - blindly following orders in battle which lead to death

                        next to of course god america i - an ironic voice

                        Poppies - a symbol of remembrance of those who diesw in war

Chosen key points: connotations of flag, semantic fields, form all the same except the last stanza, altnerative interpretation of knees, personification

Chosen quotes: 'just' repeat + could be sarcasm/ last stanza - emphasing it has a bigger meaning (trying to make a point) 'cloth' repeated throughout except last stanza - emphase power of the cloth.

Speaker: Hawk

Compare with: The Falling Leaves - a quiet mood of grief. Natural + metaphors

                        Yellow Palm - violent imagery

Chosen key points: interpretations - political leaders (power) - dictatorship, metaphorical, literal.

Chosen quotes: Majority emphasise power/arrogant(ce). creater (capitals) thinks he's in charge.

Speaker: A mother recalls an incident

Compare with:The Falling Leaves - a quiet mood of grief

                       The Charge of the Light Brigade - personal grief + public celebration + how 1 thing can change peoples lifes.

                       The Yellow Palm - a natural symbol of peace

Chosen key points: semantic fields, free verse + enjambment (no regular rhyme scheme or rhythm + run on lines), metaphor simile

Chosen key quotes: 'split second' - shows turning point, poem changes. 'leaned' emotional pain she cant stand up - link to wishbone. 'spasms' - metaphor shows excitement - pride/duty for his country.

Speaker: Owen himself talking about 1st person experience of life on the front. (how futile the waste of life was)

Compare with: The Falling Leaves: written from a woman 3rd perso, pacifist  (concerned about the effect) like Owen thinks its futile + understated comment on the waste of young life.

                       Come on, Come back: the death of an individual soldier in war (diff: imaginery)

                        Mametz Wood: the First World War and the mood of quiet regret

Chosen key points: personification to sun, v.vocab on pointlessness, use of questions

Chosen quotes: ' kind old sun' - desperate, sun is only hope.

                           'Move' - command

Speaker: Flashbacks

Compare with: The Falling Leaves - the pathos (how events evoke strong feelings of pity or sorrow in the reader)

                        The Yellow Palm - powerful images of death

                         Poppies - a personal focus on death in war

Chosen key points: metaphors, flashbacks. futile

Chosen quotes: bits from stanza 2 - fragile bones -> fragile lives, strong visual images

                          Last verse of stanza 4 - keep coming back.

Speaker:  Poet narrates a cavalry charge.

Compare with: Bayonet Charge - a soldier's attack against enemy fire

                        The Falling Leaves - a contrasting mood of quiet grief of death in war

                        Mametz Wood - the fate of men who marched to death

Chosen key points: repetition, semantic fields, frequency of death, personification

Chose quotes: 'blunder'd' mistake -> destroyed people lives like in 'Mametz Wood', never ending orders, rhythm = movement of horse (replicates charge) 'All that was left of them' emphasises the amount of deaths/losses

Speaker: narrator rides through the woods and relates leaves to the soliders

Compare with: Futility - 1st/3rd person differences (see 'Futility' card) + death in war and natural images

                       Poppies - quietly remembering the dead

                       Mametz Wood - reminders of dead soliders

Chosen key points: pacifist/link to 'Futility', Broken into two parts - visual + thoughts (with a ; - caesura), alliteration, snowflakes fall individually like soliders. Only one long sentence which means the poem is one long sentence/thoughts.

Chosen quotes: 'brown leaves' - dead leaves, dead soldiers

                          'thickly, silently' - fell in big amounts quietly

alliteration 'w' - whistling sound use of sense, vivid enchance description - more real for the reader.        

Speaker: imaginary patriotic speach

Compare with: The Right Word - language and its meanings

                        Belfast Confetti - deliberate confused syntax (order) for effect

                        Flag - the call to patriotism

Chosen key points: mockery (sytrical), starts patriotic then starts mocking. Short last sentence - doesn't care/no meaning

Chosen quotes: 'by jingo [....]' - american slang, not serious. Speaks hastily so he mispronounced 'golly' -> 'gorry'

Speaker: Poet

Compare with: next to of course god america i - the different associations attached to words

                       The Yellow Palm - the effect of warfare on ordinary people

                       Poppies - the child and the soldier

Chosen key points:repetition, trying to find the right description, questionning, could be metaphors

Chose quotes: 'outside your door' - could be metaphorically - e.g outside of comfort zone, divide between rich and poor, town or country. - threshold of safety - doesn't want to let the person in. Last stanza - relief but guilty about judgement, trying to sort things peacefully instead of lurking in the shadows/conflict.

Speaker: 1st person later on imagines a second person - loved one?

Compare with: The Yellow Palm - conflict and terror in a neighbourhood

                        Belfast Confetti - conflict in a modern city

                        At the Border, 1979 - events from a particular point of view

Chosen key points: title - terro/unexpected, alliteration, repetition, rhyme

Chosen quotes: 'A bird [....]' - image of freedom

                          Questions - asking for help

                          End full stop + language - giving up

                          'white' - surrender etc etc.

Use song - Who, what, how, why

Plan x2

Who:

What: (purpose)

What: (feelings)

How:

Why: