Power and Conflict Flashcards
Ozymadias
- trunkless legs of stone
- lone and level sands stretch far away
One stanza
London
- the mind forged manacles I hear
- marks of weakness, marks of woe
Four stanzas, four quatrains
My Last Duchess
- my last Duchess painted on the wall
- I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together
Heroic couplets
Exposure
- merciless iced east winds that knife us
- all their eyes are ice
Four stanzas end in ‘but nothing happens’
Charge of the Light Brigade
- volley’d and thunder’d
- into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell
6 stanzas - 600 men. Last stanza short to represent loss
Bayonet Charge
- suddenly he awoke and was running - raw
- His terror’s touchy dynamite
Chaotic line length and enjambment
Remains
- then I’m home again on leave. But I blink and he bursts again
- his bloody life on my bloody hands
Enjambment ‘I swear’ - ‘ I see every round’. The life changing moment
War Photographer
- all flesh is grass
- with tears between the bath and pre-lunch bears
Four six line, similar length stanzas. (desensitised)
Poppies
- sellotape bandaged around my hand
- released a song bird from its cage
Enjambment - lack of emotional control
Kamikaze
- little fishing boats strung out like bunting
- which had been the better way to die
Released sibilance - sound of plane/ nursery rhyme
Tissue
- paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites
- turned into your skin
Last stanza one line - emphasis
Extract from the Prelude
- a huge peak, black and huge
- no familiar shapes remained, no pleasant shapes of trees
Iambic pentameter
Checking out me history
- blind me to me own identity
- I carving out me identity
Caribbean culture lines shorter - lack of knowledge on own culture
The Emigreé
- my memory of it is sunlight - clear
- frontiers rise between us, close like waves
Enjambment - memories rushing back
Storm on the island
- we are prepared
- no trees, no natural shelter
Enjambment - lack of control over nature
