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GCSE English - Jekyll + Hyde > Poems - Key Quotations > Flashcards

Poems - Key Quotations Flashcards

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COTLB

Quotation for: form of propaganda, pro-war

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‘Honour the charge they made!/ Honour the Light Brigade’

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Quotation for: structure - shorter line at end of each stanza

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‘…the six hundred’

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Quotation for: religious imagery

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Biblical allusion, psalm 23 ‘valley of Death’

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COTLB

Quotation for: rising anticipation of danger

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‘Into the jaws of Death,/ Into the mouth of Hell’

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Quotation for: anaphora

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‘Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward,’

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Quotation for: regular rhyme

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‘Storm’d at with shot and shell,/ While horse and hero fell,’

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Exposure

Quotation for: structure - shorter line at end of each stanza

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‘But nothing happens’

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Exposure

Quotation for: religious imagery

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‘For love of God seems dying’

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Exposure

Quotation for: ‘exposing’ reality and futility of war, war between soldiers and weather

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‘Merciless iced east winds that knife us’

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Exposure

Quotation for: rhetorical question

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‘Is it that we are dying?’

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Exposure

Quotation for: para-rhyme

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‘Knive us … / […] nervous’

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Exposure

Quotation for: never ending pain and suffering (ellipsis)

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‘The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow …’

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Exposure

Quotation for: weather is more deadly than soldiers (personification)

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‘Merciless iced east winds that knive us …’

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Exposure

Quotation for: sibilance, lulling into false sense of security, auditory imagery - bullets zooming past ears

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‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’

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Quotation for: cyclical structure, nothing achieved, just slowly dying

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‘But nothing happens’

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Exposure

Quotation for: caesura, pause-mid line, division of soldiers from home

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‘Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed’

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Remains

Quotation for: tone - colloquialism, everyday event for soldiers

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‘One of them legs it up the road’

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Remains

Quotation for: treating their enemies badly, disrespect for them

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‘Carted off in the back of a lorry’

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Remains

Quotation for: guilt, remorse

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‘Probably armed, possibly not’

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Remains

Quotation for: structure, beginning mid-action, not organised, chaotic, unstable

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‘On another occasion’

21
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Remains

Quotation for: triplets, doesn’t want to be the only one blamed

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‘Well myself and somebody else and somebody else’

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Remains

Quotation for: shift in responsibility, deals with consequences alone

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‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’

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Remains

Quotation for: enjambment, show life changing moment when looter is shot, life is broken

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‘Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear / (new stanza) I see every round as it rips through his life -‘

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Remains

Quotation for: caesura - sense of finality, thought effects of war would switch off when he went home

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‘Then I’m home on leave. But I blink’

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Remains

Quotation for: cyclical structure, goes round in circle, trauma soldier is experiencing is inescapable

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‘Probably armed, possibly not’

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Remains
Quotation for: juxtaposed two different types of language - casual + horrific imagery - before and after effects on soldiers

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‘Legs it’

‘Tosses his guts back into his body’

27
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Remains

Quotation for: vague language, indescribable horrors of war, not prepared

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‘Sort of inside out’

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Remains

Quotation for: using war phrases - PTSD

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‘Dug in behind enemy lines’

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Remains

Quotation for: breaking down, suffering from PTSD

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Short 2 line stanza at end -

‘but near to the knuckle, here and now, / his bloody life in my bloody hands.’

30
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Poppies

Quotation for: guilt, remorseful, regrets letting son go to war

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‘A split second / and you were away’

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Poppies

Quotation for: treating their own soldiers well, respect

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‘Individual war graves’

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Poppies

Quotation for: allusion to 12 days of Christmas - loss of hope - one (son) gone

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‘A single dove flew from the pear tree’

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Poppies

Quotation for: enjambment, break in structure - reflects his mother is breaking emotionally

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‘All my words / flattened, rolled, turned into felt, / (new stanza) slowly melting.’

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Poppies
Quotation for: juxtaposed two different types of language - domestic + war-related words - suggests how those left behind feel, effects of suffering in everyday life

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‘Reinforcements of scarf, gloves’

Reinforcements - military related

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Poppies

Quotation for: that mother was unlucky and easy to break

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‘Like a wishbone’

36
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Poppies

Quotation for: caesura - needing break for grief

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‘Slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked / with you,’

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Poppies

Quotation for: thinking back to the past, war is seen as game

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‘I listened, hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind’

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