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Themes in Ozymandias

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Power of nature
Transience of power
Pride

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Quotes to show the power of nature in ozymandias

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‘Lone and level sands stretch far away’

‘Round the decay’

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Quotes to show pride in ozymandias

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‘King of kings’
‘Colossal’
‘Look on my works ye mighty and despair’

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Quotes to show transience of power

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‘Colossal wreck’

‘Shatter’d visage’

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What is the form of ozymandias

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A sonnet

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Who wrote ozymandias

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Percy bysshe shelley

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What is ozymandias loosely based on

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The Egyptian Pharos Ramses II

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Themes in London

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Inequality and anger
Corruption and innocence
Oppression

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Who wrote London

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William Blake

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What quote shows the corruption of power and innocence in London

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‘In every cry of man,in every infant’s cry Of fear’
‘Chimney sweepers cry’
‘Marriage hearse’
‘How the youthful harlots curse’

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Form and structure of London

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Simple rhyme scheme ABAB 
Four quatrain stanzas 
Stanza three spelling put an acrostic ‘HEAR’
Written in first person 
Set in 18th century London
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Themes in extract from the prelude

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The power of nature
Trauma + PTSD
Ignorance of man

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Who wrote extract from the prelude

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William Wordsworth

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Facts about William Wordsworth

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Early supporter of the French Revolution
Troubled relationship with his father
Romantic poet + poet laureate

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Quotes to show power of nature in the prelude

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‘Huge peak’

‘Utmost boundary’

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Quotes to show ignorance of man in the prelude

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‘Strode after me. With trembling oars’

‘As if with voluntary power instinct,uprears it’s head’

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Quotes to show trauma and PTSD in the prelude

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‘O trouble to my dreams’

‘That spectacle, for many days my brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense ‘

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Who is the hero in the prelude

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Because it is an epic poem it needs a hero,so because the boy isn’t brave or confident at the end the audience are left to wonder if nature is the hero

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Themes in my last duchess

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Pride

Power

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Who wrote my last duchess

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Robert browning

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Facts about my last duchess

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Probably inspired by duke Alfonso II whose young wife died in suspicious circumstances
Set in Italian Renaissance

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Quotes to show pride in my last duchess

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‘Will’t please you sit and look at her’
Rhetorical question
Plosive ‘p’

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Form and structure of my last duchess

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Whole poem in iambic pentameter-assert dominance

Dramatic monologue

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Quotes to show power in my last duchess

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‘Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I’
‘Half-flush that dies along her throat’
‘All smirks stopped together’

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Themes in charge of the light brigade
Bravery Chaos War Honour
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Who wrote charge of the light brigade
Alfred Tennyson
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Context of charge of the light brigade
Based on events of the Crimean war-most predominantly the battle of the balaclava where the British cavalry (also known as the light brigade) were given an order that they misinterpreted and 600 men charged straight in to Russian cannons-150 were killed.
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Quotes to show honour in COTLB
Repetition of ‘honour’ | Heroic language ‘charging,noble and boldly’
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Quotes to show bravery/duty in COTLB
‘Charge of the light brigade’ ‘Was there a man dismayed’ ‘Theirs not to make reply,theirs not to reason why theirs but to do and to die’
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Quotes to show chaos of war
‘Flash’d all their sabres bare’ ‘Volleyed,thundered,stormed’ ‘Jaws of death’ ‘Valley of death’-metaphor
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Who wrote exposure
Wilfred Owen
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Themes in exposure
Pointlessness of war | Power of nature
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Quotes to show the pointlessness of war
‘What are we doing here’ ‘Is it that we are dying?’ ‘All their eyes are ice’
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Quotes to show power of nature in exposure
‘(We) only know war lasts,rain soaks. And clouds sag stormy’ ‘Merciless iced east winds that knive us’ ‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’ ‘Winds nonchalance’
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Quotes to show trauma of war in exposure
‘Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army’ | ‘Our brains ache’
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Form and structure in exposure
``` 1st person narrative Collective pronouns Five line stanzas ABBAC repeated rhyme scheme Last line of each stanza created an unsettling feeling ```
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Context of exposure
Wilfred Owen flight and died in WW1 Died a week before armistice He was told it wasn’t going to be a long conflict but it ended up being very long and through ridiculously harsh winters Initially pursued a career in the church but turned away from religion
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Themes in storm on the island
Power of nature | Conflict
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Who wrote storm on the island
Seamus Heaney
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Quotes to show power of nature in storm on the island
‘Exploding comfortably’ ‘Spits like a take cat turned savage’ ‘We are prepared:we build our houses squat’ ‘We are bombarded by the empty air’
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Quotes to show conflict in storm on the island
‘Strangers,salvo and bombarded’ ‘Strange it’s like a huge nothing we fear’ ‘Huge nothing’ and ‘rock’
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Form and structure of storm on the island
The rhythm and rhyme are unpredictable Structure changes in the middle Direct address
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Context of storm on the island
Extended metaphor for the conflict in Northern Ireland First 8 letter spell ‘stormont’-Irish parliament Showcases how people sense fo security turns to fear Community thought they were prepared
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Themes in bayonet charge
Patriotism Reality of war Powerlessness
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Who wrote bayonet charge
Ted Hughes
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Quotes to show powerlessness in bayonet charge
‘Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs’ | ‘Cold clockwork’
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Quotes to show patriotism in bayonet charge
‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye now sweating like molten iron’ ‘King,honour, human dignity etcetera’
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Quotes to show reality of war in bayonet charge
‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’ ‘And crawled in a threshing circle,it’s mouth wide’ ‘Lugged the rifle as a smashed arm’
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Structure and form of bayonet charge
``` Enjambment Irregular rhythm Caesura Free verse Begins in medias res Nameless soldier ```
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Context of bayonet charge
Ted Hughes served in the RAF Living in Yorkshire which was in morning of WW1 His father used to tell him stories about the war
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Themes in remains
PTSD and trauma Reality of war Guilt
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Quotes to show guilt in remains
‘Remains’ ‘Probably armed,possibly not’ ‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
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Quotes to show PTSD and trauma in remains
‘His bloody shadow stays’ ‘I see’ ‘The drink and drugs won’t flush him out’
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Quotes to show Reality of war in remains
‘Sort of inside our…tosses his guts back into his body’ ‘I swear I see every round as it rips through his life’ ‘Not left for dead in some distant sun stunned sand smothered land’
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Form and structure in remains
``` Dramatic monologue Repetition Two part structure No rhyme Rhythm break ```
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Who wrote remains and for what
Simon Armitage | To accompany a documentary about men who return form war in body but not wholly in mind
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Themes in poppies
Reality of war Bravery Parenthood
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Quotes to show parenthood in poppies
‘On reaching the top of the hill garbed inscriptions on the war memorial’ ‘I listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’ ‘All my words flattened,rolled,turned into felt’ ‘Freeing a song bird’
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Quotes to show bravery in poppies
‘I wanted to graze my nose against the top of yours’ ‘I was brave’ ‘I resisted the impulse’
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Quotes to show reality of war in poppies
‘Spasms of paper read disrupting a blockade’ ‘To run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair’ ‘Without a winter coat or reinforcements’
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Form and structure of poppies
Free for an and lots of enjambment Dramatic monologue Domestic and militaristic language used throughout
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Context of poppies
Jane weir was a textiles artist Lived through conflict in Northern Ireland poem about armistice Sunday Looks at the reality of war on the people left behind
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Who wrote poppies
Jane weir

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