Power and Conflict Poems 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureAQA AnthologyGCSEAQA Created by: CharlieMallabandCreated on: 04-04-18 13:59 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Tennyson 'Six hundred' - anaphora (repetition) Datylic dimeter - galloping rhythm 'valley of death' - biblical conotation of hell 'world wonder'd' - exaggerates mistake Bravery vs Blunder Milertary with religion Romantisism - victorian genre: nature vs elements Heroic glorification 1 of 7 Exposure - Owen 'silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous' - sibilance of wind 'dawn begins to grow' - oxymoron as dawn is usually positive 'cringe in holes' - animalised - scared 'Is it that we are dying?' - rhetorical question - confusion 'eyes are ice' - metaphor - cold dead 'but nothing happens' - war doesn't end Conflict of man vs nature Personified weather attacking man Soldier in WW1 - Somme Weather merciless and triumphant 2 of 7 Bayonet Charge - Hughes 'Suddenly he awoke' - middle of action - realisation 'Cold clockwork' - large machine 'King, honour, human dignity, etcetera' - asyndetic list of pride - no longer caring 'His terror touchy dynamite' - could explode 'Threw up a yellow hare' - metaphor - fast bullet WW1 Physical and emotional Juxtapose amimals with war Enjambment - confusion, hectic 3 of 7 Remains - Armitage 'On another occassion' - recall, anecdotal 'Legs it' - colloquialism - slang 'somebody else and somebody else' - anonoymus 'broad daylight on the other side' - bullets passing though body 'stays on the street' - remains in his head 'his bloody life in my bloody hands' - pun, conflict with the dead man and himself Colloquilalism - heightened realism Mental conflict PTSD 4 of 7 Poppies - Weir 'Poppies' - symbolism, rememberance 'I' and 'you' - personal pronouns, intamacy 'steeled the softening' - brave 'A single dove' - freedom, death 'reinforcements of a scarf' - metaphor of war 'hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind' - metaphor death, flashback of childhood Empathy and conflict Contrasting language 5 of 7 War Photographer - Duffy 'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows' - sibilance/metaphor, war graves 'All flesh is grass' - reference to funerals, war mowes down lives 'Something is happening' - cataphoric reference, unaware 'half-formed ghost' - haunts '***** with tears' - metaphor, momentarally, soon to forget Difficult decisions balanced with helping vague 6 of 7 Kamikaze - Garland 'shaven head' - token of purity and honour 'she thought, recounting it later' - considers her father's decision 'one-way' - not coming back, sacrifice 'green translucent sea' 'like a huge flag' - simile, patriotism 'he no longer existed' - metaphor, emotionally died 'children chattered and laughed' - didn't understand 'which had been the better way to die' - rhetorical question honour betrayal regret culture manipulation 7 of 7
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