English Paper 1 Revision [AIS, Poetry] Flashcards
14/06/25 (16 cards)
Seamus Heaney: Storm on the Island
You might think that the sea is company/ exploding comfortably down on the cliffs/ But no: when it begins, the flung spray spits like a tame cat / turned savage.
Jane Weir: Poppies
After you’d gone I went into your bedroom / released a song bird from its cage / I traced / the inscriptions on the war memorial / leaned against it like a wishbone.
Ted Hughes: Bayonet Charge
Suddenly he awoke and was running/ King, honour, human dignity etcetera/ dropped like luxuries.
Wilfred Owen: Exposure
Our brains ache in the merciless iced east wind that knive us/ but nothing happens.
Alfred Tennyson: Charge of the light brigade
Boldly they rode and well/ into the jaws of death/ honour the charge they made/ into the mouth of Hell/ honour the light brigade/ noble six hundred.
Eric Birling Quotes
“Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.”
“The girl’s dead and we all helped kill her.”
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.”
“I’m ashamed of you as well, yes, both of you.”
Sheila Birling Quotes
“Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide.”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people!”
“A pretty girl very pleased with life.”
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner.”
Sybil Birling Quotes
“A rather cold woman”
“Her husband’s social superior”
“I did nothing I’m ashamed of.”
Gerald’s affair is ‘disgusting’
Sheila is a ‘hysterical’ child.
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
Arthur Birling Quotes
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”
“The Germans don’t want war.”
“The famous younger generation who know it all.”
“Community and all that nonsense.”
“A man has to look after himself and his own.”
Inspector Goole Quotes
Says the younger generation are “more impressionable”
“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”
“We don’t live alone, we are members of one body.”
“Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”
Gerald Croft Quotes
Inspector says he “made her happy for a time”
“I’m rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear to be.”
“I don’t come into this suicide business.”
“Everything’s alright now, Sheila. What about this ring?”
When was AIC written?
When was AIC set?
Written: 1945, after the end of WWII.
Set: 1912, before the sinking of the Titanic.
Moral Responsibility and Social Justice.
-Criticises selfishness in Capitalist society
-Edwardian Britain had extreme inequality between the working class and the wealthy (who made up only a very small percentage of society)
-No welfare system to care for the poor + any support systems were managed by the wealthy.
-Titanic as a symbol of class divide presents Priestley’s need for change.
Damaging Social Systems
-Criticises capitalist, patriarchal systems that didn’t take care of workers and women.
-1912, women had no voting right and financial stability was heavily dependent on men.
-1918 suffragettes and workers strikes from 1920-1940 helped urge the need for change from the sexist and capitalist greed.
-Priestley criticises toxic masculinity for valuing power over empathy.
Generational conflict
-Priestley contrasts the fixed values of older generation + younger gen’s desire for change.
- World war helped community and tone down class division as soldiers worked together + women could work.
-1945 many from both generations wanted changes; social changes like gender equality continuation to change society positively.
AIC Vocabulary
-Society
-Justice
-Empathy
-Privileged
-Unremorseful
-Responsibility
-Vulnerable
-Dehumanising
-Hypocritical
-Omniscient
