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1
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a half formed…

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ghost (war photographer)

2
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running children…

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in a nightmare heat (war photographer)

3
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spools of suffering…

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set out in ordered rows (war photographer)

4
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a priest…

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preparing to intone a Mass (war photographer)

5
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war photographer context?

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Duffy was inspired to write this poem by her friendship with a war photographer; she prompts us to consider our own response when confronted with the photographs, and discusses the idea of how photos of war are having lesser and lesser of an impact in modern society.

6
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war photographer structure?

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The poem is laid out in four regular six-line stanzas, with each stanza ending in a rhyming couplet. This structure is interesting since its very rigid order contrasts with the chaotic, disturbing images described in the poem.

7
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I wander…

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through each chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow (London)

8
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runs in blood…

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down palace walls (London)

9
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mind-forged…

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manacles (London)

10
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marriage…

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hearse (London)

11
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London context?

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This poem is taken from “songs of experience”. It reveals the poet’s feelings towards the society in which he lived. England in the 1800s became very oppressive, influenced by fears over the French Revolution. Laws began to be imposed which restricted the freedom of individuals. Blake was a Romantic poet, meaning he strongly disliked urban life.

12
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London structure?

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tight ABAB rhyme scheme, strict 4 line verses

13
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the patriotic tear…

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that had brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron from the center of his chest (bayonet charge)

14
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his foot hung…

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like / statuary in mid stride. Then the… (bayonet charge: consider structure, for example enjambment shown through ‘/’ and caesura)

15
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king, honour…

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human dignity etcetera, dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm (bayonet charge)

16
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his terror’s…

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touchy dynamite (bayonet charge)

17
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In what cold clockwork…

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of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second? (bayonet charge)

18
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bayonet charge context?

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It is thought that in Bayonet Charge Hughes wanted to highlight the brutality of trench warfare as a tribute to his father’s suffering as well as a way to memorialize war as a warning for future generations. This poem was greatly inspired by Wilfred Owen who similarly tries to depict the reality of war in his poetry.

19
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bayonet charge structure?

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The poem begins in media-res (straight into the action). The lines are uneven and sporadic, using enjambment and caesura, and have an irregular rhythm.

20
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merciless…

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iced east winds that knive us (exposure)

21
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dawn massing in the east…

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her melancholy army attacks once more on shivering ranks of grey (exposure)

22
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Less deadly than…

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the air that shudders black with snow (exposure)

23
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pale flakes…

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with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces (exposure)

24
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exposure context?

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This poem was written during World War I. It depicts the horrific conditions of war. Owen wanted to show the reality of war in contrast to the propaganda that was being feed to the British nation at home.

25
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exposure structure?

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The poem is structured as a series of eight stanzas of five lines. The last line of each stanza is noticeably shorter and indented which emphasises its importance. It is also part of the more general disruption of the rhythmic structure which uses hexameters as its basis. Hexameters have 6 beats, but Owen often adds other beats to disrupt the flow.

26
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half sunk…

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a shattered visage lies (ozymandias)

27
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wrinkled lip…

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and a sneer of cold command (ozymandias)

28
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nothing besides…

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remains (ozymandias)

29
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colossal…

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wreck (ozymandias)

30
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‘My name is Ozymandias…

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king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ (ozymandias)

31
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ozymandias context?

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Shelley’s poem takes its title from the Egyptian king Ramesses II, known to the Greeks by the name Ozymandias. Shelley was a Romantic poet.

32
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ozymandias structure?

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Mixture of Patrachan and Shakespearean sonnet forms then a whole new sonnet form to symbolise eternal change. Shelley’s sonnet is a strange mixture of these two forms. It is Petrarchan in that the poem is structured as a group of eight lines (octave) and a group of six lines (the sestet). The rhyme scheme is initially Shakespearean, as the first four lines rhyme ABAB. But then the poem gets strange: at lines 5-8 the rhyme scheme is ACDC, rather than the expected CDCD. For lines 9-12, the rhyme scheme is EDEF, rather than EFEF. Finally, instead of a concluding couplet we get another EF group. The entire rhyme scheme can be schematized as follows: ABABACDCEDEFEF.

33
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the prelude context?

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wordsworth was a romantic poet and loved nature.

34
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my last duchess context?

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a dramatic monologue set in italy based on the life of Alfonso II, duke of Ferreira. The dukes first wife died in 1561 after 3 years of marriage at a very young age– there was a suspicion of being poisoned by the duke.

35
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charge of the light brigade context?

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The charge of the light brigade occurred during the Battle of Balaclava, and was a costly mistake that shouldn’t have happened. Alfred Lord Tennyson was the poet laureate at the time

36
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storm on the island context?

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stormont = irish government building. there was a civil war about irelands freedom from the uk.

37
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remains context?

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‘Remains’ is based on the experiences of a soldier who served in Basra in Iraq. He suffered severe PTSD as a result of his experiences

38
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poppies context?

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Poppies was her response to a commission for war poems by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. This, and nine other poems, appeared in The Guardian newspaper in 2009. Her poem was a response to the losses already suffered during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

39
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tissue context?

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Imtiaz Dharker is a contemporary poet who was born in Pakistan and grew up in Scotland. She has written five collections of poetry and often deals with themes of identity, the role of women in contemporary society and the search for meaning. She draws on her multi-cultural experience in her work.

40
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the emigree context?

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the 1990s saw an increase in the number of immigrants entering various countries around the world; the poem was published in 1993.

41
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checking out me history context?

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The poem focuses on the holes in the British colonial education system—particularly that system’s omission of important figures from African, Caribbean, and indigenous history.

42
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kamikaze context?

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kamikaze pilots would fly their planes into american ships and sacrifice themselves during ww2. kamikaze means ‘divine wind’.