power and conflict
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Ozymandias - Form
- Sonnet, with a Volta at line 9
- Doesn't follow a regular sonnet rhyme scheme. This symbolises destruction of human power and control
- Iambic pentameter - control, although often disrupted - like time chipping away at the statue
- Second hand account,
- Doesn't follow a regular sonnet rhyme scheme. This symbolises destruction of human power and control
- Iambic pentameter - control, although often disrupted - like time chipping away at the statue
- Second hand account,
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Ozymandias - Structure
- Focuses of different parts of the statue in turn, building up an image (and suggesting it's in pieces now)
- Poem ends with description of enormous desert, showing the statue as insignificant
- Poem ends with description of enormous desert, showing the statue as insignificant
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Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Arrogance
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair"
He intended 'despair' because of the grandeur of his statue, but now despair because of the temporary nature of power
He intended 'despair' because of the grandeur of his statue, but now despair because of the temporary nature of power
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Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Insignificance
"The lone and level sands stretch far away" - Insignificance of statue vs Size of nature
Final line - reader left with greater impression of nature than of Ozymandias
Final line - reader left with greater impression of nature than of Ozymandias
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London - Form
- Dramatic monologue, the first person narrator is passionate and personal
- Unbroken ABAB rhyme scheme, showing relentless misery
- Regular rhythm - sound of footfalls of poetic voice trudging
- Unbroken ABAB rhyme scheme, showing relentless misery
- Regular rhythm - sound of footfalls of poetic voice trudging
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London - Structural features
- Stanzas one and two focus on people (sights then sounds)
- Stanza three focuses on who's to blame
- Stanza four is back to people
- Stanza three focuses on who's to blame
- Stanza four is back to people
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London - Quote to show Emotive language
"every infant's cry of fear" meaning London is unsafe, even the young and innocent are trapped in this society
- This is Sensory imagery
- This is Sensory imagery
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London - Quote to show London's Attitudes
"The mind-forged manacles I hear" - People's minds are restricted, confined, corrupted - unable to think properly
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London - Quote to show a lack of Responsibility
"Every blackening church appals" - The verb "appals" applies to the chimney sweepers in the line above. These usually were orphans being cared for by the church
Church is blackened by the soot and the smoke, but is also black with corruption. It could hel
Church is blackened by the soot and the smoke, but is also black with corruption. It could hel
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The Prelude - Form
-First-person narrative
- Personal account of a turning point in Wordsworth's life
- Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) gives a sense of importance and seriousness
- Regular rhythm makes it sound like natural speech
- Turning point at line 21
- Personal account of a turning point in Wordsworth's life
- Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) gives a sense of importance and seriousness
- Regular rhythm makes it sound like natural speech
- Turning point at line 21
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The Prelude - Structure
- 3 main sections, A light and carefree tone turning to darker and more fearful then to reflection
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The Prelude - Quote to show the Beauty of nature
"sparkling light" This reflects the tone of the poem, positive and carefree, which contrasts with later images of darkness.
- Alternative deception and sparkling light associated with that that isn't real, being lulled into false happiness
- Alternative deception and sparkling light associated with that that isn't real, being lulled into false happiness
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The Prelude - Quote to show the power of nature
"strode after me" with "measured motion"
Nature is calm and in control, purposeful. Calm, "m" sounds.
Nature is calm and in control, purposeful. Calm, "m" sounds.
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The Prelude - Quote to show the Power of man
"proud of his skill"
"trembling oars"
Experience has changed him, changed his pride to fear
"trembling oars"
Experience has changed him, changed his pride to fear
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My Last Duchess - Form
- Dramatic monologue written in iambic pentameter, showing control of speech, arrogance, one-sided conversation
- Rhyming couplets, control
- Enjambment - not in control, carried away with anger and passions
- Rhyming couplets, control
- Enjambment - not in control, carried away with anger and passions
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My Last Duchess - Structure
Poem set in visit to Duke's gallery, but he gets caught up in talking about the Duchess
- Becomes a confession - although he moves onto another piece of art before he can tell too much (control)
- Becomes a confession - although he moves onto another piece of art before he can tell too much (control)
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My Last Duchess - Quote to show Arrogance
"Even if you had skill in speech (which I have not)"
He talks this whole, long poem in iambic pentameter. He is clearly displaying false modesty
He talks this whole, long poem in iambic pentameter. He is clearly displaying false modesty
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My Last Duchess - Quote to show Power
"Will't please you look at her?" Now she is dead he can control exactly who looks at her
- Forceful towards guest, controlling of everyone he can
- Forceful towards guest, controlling of everyone he can
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My Last Duchess - Quote to show Jealousy
"that spot of joy" This is repeated to emphasise how much he was affected by this. He was unable to control her and her emotions
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Form
- 3rd person narrative, like a story
- Regular, relentless rhythm creates a fast pace, imitating gallop and the energy of battle
- Rhyming couplets and triplets drive poem forward, but momentum is broken by unrhymed lines, representing soldiers falling an
- Regular, relentless rhythm creates a fast pace, imitating gallop and the energy of battle
- Rhyming couplets and triplets drive poem forward, but momentum is broken by unrhymed lines, representing soldiers falling an
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Structure
- Charge of the men in the first 3 stanzas build up
- Battle in 4th, short and tense
- Retreat in the 5th, highlights difficulty of situation
- Shorter final stanza, summarises heroism
- Battle in 4th, short and tense
- Retreat in the 5th, highlights difficulty of situation
- Shorter final stanza, summarises heroism
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Quote to show Patriotism
"Theirs but to do and die" Repetition in stanza of "theirs"
- Respectful of their duty to the country, even though it was almost certain death
- Respectful of their duty to the country, even though it was almost certain death
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Quote to show Heroism
"All the world wonder'd" Double meaning
- Marvelled at bravery of soldiers, main focus of poem
- Wondered why soldiers had been sent on charge (main focus of media)
- Marvelled at bravery of soldiers, main focus of poem
- Wondered why soldiers had been sent on charge (main focus of media)
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Quote to show Reality of war
"storm'd at with shot and shell" Storm is pathetic fallacy, used to display how unstoppable the opposition were
- Whooshing, "sh" sounds like the ammo coming at them
- Whooshing, "sh" sounds like the ammo coming at them
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Exposure - Form
- Present tense, first person plural, A collective voice that invokes reader connection
- Regular ABBAC rhyme scheme. Monotnous, with half-rhymes to offer no satisfaction
- Each stanza ends with a half line, a gap of activity or hope
- Regular ABBAC rhyme scheme. Monotnous, with half-rhymes to offer no satisfaction
- Each stanza ends with a half line, a gap of activity or hope
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Exposure - Structure
8 stanzas, No progression. Nothing happens
Monotonous similarity between endings of stanzas
Monotonous similarity between endings of stanzas
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Exposure - Quote to show Criticism of war
"What are we doing here?"
Owen's first-hand experience of war, futile, pointless, he believed it to be a waste of life
Owen's first-hand experience of war, futile, pointless, he believed it to be a waste of life
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Exposure - Quote to show Suffering
"Merciless iced east winds that knive us"
Personification of nature, the real enemy
Personification of nature, the real enemy
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Exposure - Quote to show Loss
"All their eyes are ice" Eyes of the living and the dead are empty - life is futile in war, hope and soul alike are lost
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Storm on the Island - Form
- Written in blank verse, mirrors pattern of everyday speech
- Collective first person, collective experience
- 1 compact stanza, like the houses
- Collective first person, collective experience
- 1 compact stanza, like the houses
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Storm on the Island - Structure
Shifts from security to fear - turning point at line 14 "But no:"
Caesura indicates final calm before the storm
Caesura indicates final calm before the storm
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Storm on the Island - Quote to show Safety
"We are prepared:" Short phrase gives sense of definition which isn't the case later, a change of opinion
- Link to political unrest 'Stormont' 3 years before
- IRA became active, modern reflection as ready for unrest caused
- Link to political unrest 'Stormont' 3 years before
- IRA became active, modern reflection as ready for unrest caused
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Storm on the Island - Quote to show Fear
"It pummels your house too" Could be you to mean 'one', but could also be a direct address to the reader, meaning they feel involved
- Violent personification of wind
- Violent personification of wind
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Storm on the Island - Quote to show Animalistic imagery
"spits like a tame cat turned savage" Familiarity turns to fear
- Harsh sounding "spits"
- Could definfitely link this to political unrest
- Harsh sounding "spits"
- Could definfitely link this to political unrest
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Bayonet Charge - Form
- Enjambment, caesura, uneven line length. Irregular rhythm mirrors soldier struggling through mud
- Use of "he" creates universal experience, could be any soldier
- Use of "he" creates universal experience, could be any soldier
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Bayonet Charge - Structure
Starts 'in medias res', in the middle of the action
- 1st stanza acts on instinct, not very human
- Time stands still for soldier's thoughts in 2nd stanza
- Loses thoughts and ideas by 3rd stanza - no humanity
- 1st stanza acts on instinct, not very human
- Time stands still for soldier's thoughts in 2nd stanza
- Loses thoughts and ideas by 3rd stanza - no humanity
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Bayonet charge - Quote to show Futility of war
"King, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries"
- Not worth going to war
- Attacking out of desperation, not principle
- Not worth going to war
- Attacking out of desperation, not principle
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Bayonet charge - Quote to show Terror
"His terror's touchy dynamite"
- Weapon, not a human
- Fuelled by terror
- Alliterative 't' sounds gives a sense of bursts, like his terror, and perhaps gunfire
- Weapon, not a human
- Fuelled by terror
- Alliterative 't' sounds gives a sense of bursts, like his terror, and perhaps gunfire
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Remains - Form
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme - like a story
- 'We' to 'I' - collective experience to personal emotions
- 'We' to 'I' - collective experience to personal emotions
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Remains - Structure
- Turns quickly from light anecdote to brutal death
- Turning point at 5th stanza. Tone, thoughts and emotions changed by experience
- Turning point at 5th stanza. Tone, thoughts and emotions changed by experience
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Remains - Quote to show Death
"I see broad daylight on the other side"
- Through his body, gory
- Into the afterlife? - Death is good in comparison to today?
- Through his body, gory
- Into the afterlife? - Death is good in comparison to today?
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Remains - Quote to show Memory
"His blood-shadow stays on the street"
- Physical embodiment of the soldier's memories
- Physical embodiment of the soldier's memories
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Remains - Quote to show Guilt
"his bloody life in my bloody hands" Feels sole responsibility for looter's death (he was shot by all 3 of them)
- Reference to Lady Macbeth's unbalanced guilt - the blood
- Reference to Lady Macbeth's unbalanced guilt - the blood
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Poppies - Form
- 1st person narrative, A Mother's emotions
- No regular rhyme or rhythm, narrator's thoughts and memories
- Long sentence and enjambment, absorbed in thoughts and memories
- Caesura, trying to hold her emotions together
- No regular rhyme or rhythm, narrator's thoughts and memories
- Long sentence and enjambment, absorbed in thoughts and memories
- Caesura, trying to hold her emotions together
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Poppies - Structure
Chronological, Ambiguous time frame, showing memories entwined with no clear distinctions
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Poppies - Connotations of death
"spasms of paper red"
- Beauty of a poppy corrupted with militaristic language
- Narrator is fearful (foreshadowing) of son's fate
- Spasms connote injury
- Beauty of a poppy corrupted with militaristic language
- Narrator is fearful (foreshadowing) of son's fate
- Spasms connote injury
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Poppies - Quote to show Loss
"After you'd gone"
Ambiguous - is 'gone' a euphemism for death?
Ambiguous - is 'gone' a euphemism for death?
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War Photographer - Form
- 4 stanzas of equal length. Suffering in poem set out in ordered rows
- Use of enjambment reflects revealing of photo as it develops (or unfolding emotions"
- 3rd person narrative highlights reader's distance from the horrors of war
- Use of enjambment reflects revealing of photo as it develops (or unfolding emotions"
- 3rd person narrative highlights reader's distance from the horrors of war
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War Photographer - Structure
- Follows actions and thoughts of photographer in the darkroom
- Flashback in stanza 3, emotive and powerful description of reality of war
- Flashback in stanza 3, emotive and powerful description of reality of war
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War Photographer - Quote to show Death
"half-formed ghost"
- Photo isn't formed completely
- Soldier's features are mutilated, affecting his form
- Photo isn't formed completely
- Soldier's features are mutilated, affecting his form
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War Photographer - Quote for Society
"they do not care"
- Ambiguity, readers of newspaper or general society
- Last words of the poem, the reader will be affected, realising that they don't care
- Ambiguity, readers of newspaper or general society
- Last words of the poem, the reader will be affected, realising that they don't care
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War Photographer - Quote to show Reality of conflict
"Children running in a nightmare heat"
- Children running is usually a happy image
- Brutality of nightmare heat suggests otherness of war society
- Reference to famous "Napalm girl" photo from Vietnam war
- Children running is usually a happy image
- Brutality of nightmare heat suggests otherness of war society
- Reference to famous "Napalm girl" photo from Vietnam war
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Tissue - Form
- No specific narrative, general reflection upon society
- No regular rhythm or rhyme and enjambment, narrator's desire for freedom and clarity
- Short stanzas, poem built in layers
- No regular rhythm or rhyme and enjambment, narrator's desire for freedom and clarity
- Short stanzas, poem built in layers
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Tissue - Structure
- 3 main parts: history, human experience, creation of human life
- Final line focuses reader on personal identity
- Final line focuses reader on personal identity
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Tissue - Quote on Money
"Fly our lives like paper kites" Humans are controlled by money, which is restricting us
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Tissue - Quote on Human creation
"A structure never meant to last"
Our lives and buildings are overpowered by time
Our lives and buildings are overpowered by time
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The Emigree - Form
- 1st person, personal experience
- 1st 2 stanzas have enjambment, freedom of childhood
- More end stopping in final stanza, confinement of new city/adulthood
- 1st 2 stanzas have enjambment, freedom of childhood
- More end stopping in final stanza, confinement of new city/adulthood
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The Emigree - Structure
- Memory grows and strengthens as poem progresses, physical presence in final stanza
- Each stanza ends in sunlight
- Each stanza ends in sunlight
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The Emigree - Quote on Memory
"It tastes of sunlight"
Vivid sensory image (sensory image used elsewhere"
Vivid sensory image (sensory image used elsewhere"
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The Emigree - Quote on Reality
"sick with tyrants"
Referring to either city or reality of adulthood, learning and coming to terms with the evils of the world
Referring to either city or reality of adulthood, learning and coming to terms with the evils of the world
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The Emigree - Quote to show Confinements of adulthood
"time rolls its tanks"
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Kamikaze - Form
- Mostly 3rd person, reported speech, stories that want to be hidden
- Pilot is voiceless in poem and society
- 3rd person highlights distance between pilot daughter
- Pilot is voiceless in poem and society
- 3rd person highlights distance between pilot daughter
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Kamikaze - Structure
- First 5 stanzas are 1 sentence are flight
- End of sentence = landing
- Final 2 stanzas are fallout of actions
- End of sentence = landing
- Final 2 stanzas are fallout of actions
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Kamikaze - Quote to show Childhood memory
"Father's boat safe" Childhood associated with security and safety
- Memory of childhood safety may have worried pilot
- Memory of childhood safety may have worried pilot
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Kamikaze - Quote to show Nationalism
"Shaven head full of powerful"
- No longer an individual, loses individual identity (similar to end of poem)
- Nationalistic propaganda
- No longer an individual, loses individual identity (similar to end of poem)
- Nationalistic propaganda
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Checking Out Me History - Form
- Stanzas about English education in traditional stanza form, confinements of education
- Simple rhymes, mocking, sounds like a nursery rhyme
- Stanzas about his culture have shorter lines and broken syntax, importance
- Simple rhymes, mocking, sounds like a nursery rhyme
- Stanzas about his culture have shorter lines and broken syntax, importance
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Checking Out Me History - Structure
- Alternating stanzas, British and Caribbean
- Detail and imagery differences
- Detail and imagery differences
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Checking out Me History - Quote to show British education
"Columbus and 1492" European coloniser who was responsible for slavery and murder of indigenous people. Taught as a hero
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Checking Out Me History - Quote to show Personal education
"de Caribs and de Arawaks too" Native Caribbean people who resisted slavery and European colonialism
- Shows that only 1 side of history is taught
- Shows that only 1 side of history is taught
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Card 2
Front
Ozymandias - Structure
Back
- Focuses of different parts of the statue in turn, building up an image (and suggesting it's in pieces now)
- Poem ends with description of enormous desert, showing the statue as insignificant
- Poem ends with description of enormous desert, showing the statue as insignificant
Card 3
Front
Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Arrogance
Back
Card 4
Front
Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Insignificance
Back
Card 5
Front
London - Form
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