Poems

Moral

 -awe and wonder is within people (makes them heroic)

 -contrasts Romantic view

Structure

 -enjambment (lines 22-25) suggests anger and ideas are overflowing

 -rhyme of "ballon/moon/spoon" climaxes at "nanny de maroon" so there reader becomes aware of the historical figures

 -stanzas all end in black figures "Toussaint, Mary Seacole" and finally him, suggesting them helped him find his identity

Language

 -light imagery "fire" represents the moral courage and passion within each persom

 -phonetic spelling "dem" and lack of punctuation highlights that he refuses to lose his culture/identity and conform to English grammar

moral

 -time destroys statue/identity always changing

structure

 -sonnet suggests he is in love with himself and reflects his love of nature (Darwin highlighted that we are animals- is God within us? questions whether we find identity through ourselves or outer world)

 -rhyme scheme changes from Petrarch to Shakespearean demonstrating all power gives way to knew power/identities always change

language

 -assonance of 'c' in line 5 represents reader reaction to his love of nature

 -the pronoun "I" suggests a persona and how this is anecdotal

moral

 -nature is an external force that has an impact on identity 

language

 -pronoun "her" implies females are superior to males

 -adjective "elfin" suggests a mythical quality to the story

structure

 -one long stanza becomes overwhelming to read for the reader

 -enjambment in opening lines highlights how overwhlmed young Wordsworth is by the revelation

 -lack of rhyme scheme demonstrates his ignorance towards nature and it's abilities

moral

 -glorifies war and highlights the nobility of soldiers (crimean war)

structure

 -rhythm of stanzas mimics sounds of horses

 -refrain of 'rode the six hundred' celebrates courage of soliders

 -constant rhyme scheme implies the repetitive aspect of war

language 

 -the imperitive "honour" commands the reader to respect soldiers

moral

 -not only do soldiers suffer from war, but war photographer experience extreme PTSD

structure

 -cyclical structure suggests going from war to war is repetitve for the photographer, and his repetitive thoughts

 -all stanzas have six lines, constant structure highlights that it's a repetitive action

language

 -plosives of line 6 allow reader to stop and understand what happened to him and war is the same everywhere

 -assonance of 'o' mimics his exhaustion

moral

 -weather is more harsh than opposing soldiers

language

 -in opening lines the sibilance and repetitive 'w' convey biting cold

 -collective pronoun "our" implies that it is an understanding of all the soldiers

 -in the first stanza there is a repeating 's' sound, highlighting the sounds of breath and chattering teeth

structure

 -half rhyme of "silent/salient" makes reader uncomfortable like soldiers were

 -refrain of "but nothing happens" empthasises that this war is futile and references that commanders fail to do anything, he is simply a weapon

moral

 -boundaries within the world set identities/should redraw them

structure

 -the ellipses in the first line represents how she believes that there should be no borders. 

 -caesura in the last stave represent how she cannot escape her heritage/country

 -refrain of 'sunlight' highlights that although there are many 'shadows', happiness will follow through each boundary

language

 -light imagery "bright/glow/white" is contrasted with dark imagery "November/mildest/hollow" to suggest her identity is limited by the western world

moral

 -war treats humans as weapons

language 

 -repeated 'h' sound reflects soldiers heavy breathing

structure

 -enjambment between stanzas reflects chaos solider and reader feels

moral

 -boundaries within the world set identities/should redraw them

structure

 -enjambment/free verse/lack of rhyme scheme reflects the restrictions of boundaries

language

 -light imagery is used as a metaphor for religious power, which moulds our identity

moral

 -the organised religion doesn't allow culteral freedom in identity

language

 -"Every black'ning church appalls' is a pun-moral corruption caused this not industrial revolution

 -adjective "chartered" in line one signifies "streets" are mapped out-nothing natural

 -repetition of "every" implies disease of mankind is out of control

structure

 -written in quatrains and constant rhyme scheme reflects the repetitive suffering in the city and the organised religion doesn't allow culteral freedom in identity

moral

 -the oppression of women reflected their lack of identity

language

 -repetition of pronoun "my" highlights Duke's possessiveness

structure

 -consistant rhyming couplets reflects Duke's control over her

 -enjambment highlights his lack of self control

 -monologue domonstrates how women were silenced

moral

 -the troubles were inescapable, as well as nature

structure

 -enjambment (line 5-10) and lack of stanza breaks reflects uncontrollable war

 -many half rhymes like "squat/slate" and "air/fear", it begins and end with it suggesting a cyclical structure

language

 -oxymoron "exploding comfortably" reflects everyday nature of conflict

 -pronoun "we" highlights unity of catholics

 -everyday Irish talk of ‘you know what I mean’ is juxtaposed with the very English iambic pentameter, to reflect the conflict between the Irish and the English.