Power And Conflict Flashcards
(120 cards)
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Analyse: ‘blights with plague the marriage hearse’
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Oxymoron. Joy of marriage infected by the misery of death. All good things in life have been destroyed by the change in nature of London.
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Analyse: ‘white streets…graceful slopes’ vs ‘tanks’; ‘tyrants’; ‘banned’
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Contrast between negative and positive images. Although there are images of war and negativity, the speaker still has a positive view of the place. Emphasises the power of the place on the speaker.
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Who wrote War Photographer?
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Carol Ann Duffy
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What does the structure of Ozymandias suggest?
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It has a broken rhyme scheme which connotes the broken statue
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Analyse: ‘sneer of cold command’
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Harsh alliteration. Shows that he is a cold-hearted rule. Poet could be trying to saying that man shouldn’t have power.
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Analyse: ‘We are bombarded by the empty air’
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War imagery. Suggests that their struggles are based on nothing. Could suggest that humans underestimate the power of nature and face the consequences.
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Analyse: tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.’
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Threatening image. First full stop. Pilot realises how unimportant human lie is when compared to nature.
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Analyse: ‘I was brave, as I walked’
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Break in structure reflects the mother’s break in emotions. War has a huge impact on her.
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Who wrote Extract from The Prelude?
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William Wordsworth
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Analyse: ‘ Bullets smacking the belly out of the air - he lugged the rifle numb as a smashed arm’
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Plosive sounds represent the force of the bullets when they come in contact with their target. Reflects the soldiers being worried about the possibility of being shots
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Who wrote Poppies?
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Jane Weir
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How can you compare Checking out me history with London?
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> Both challenge people in power
Checking out me history challenge those in power who decide how we are educated
London challenges those in power who are in government, ownership of land and religious positions.
London is a bleak poem that doesn’t offer a solution whereas Checking out me history does
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Analyse: ‘terror’s touchy dynamite’
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The alliterative ’t’ sounds represent his fear, as if the slightest touch will make him jump. The word ‘touchy’ suggests nerves stretched to the limit. The ’t’s could also symbolise the ticking time bomb of inevitable death.
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How can you compare London and Tissue?
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Both poems are a criticism of human power. London is a criticism of religion and the government which is ruining life at that time. Tissue presents human power as being weak. Tissue presents a solution to this problem however London does not
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Analyse: ‘Exploding comfortably’
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Oxymoron. Reflects how the speaker has gotten used to the conflict in life.
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Who wrote charge of the light brigade?
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Analyse: ‘valley of death’
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Biblical Allusion. To describe the dark and dangerous surroundings of the battlefield.
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Analyse: troubled pleasure
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Oxymoron. Shows how he found his environment intimidating but beautiful. He almost feels as he is trespassing on nature’s secrets.
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Analyse: ‘like a dull rumour of some other war’
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Biblical allusion. Reference to Jesus’ prediction of the end of the world. The situation that the poet is in feels like the end of the world has arrived.
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Describe the context of Checking out me history
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> Agard believed that education has an Eurocentric view - nothing exists until Europeans enter the scene.
Those in power use their power to shape how we see history
Agard was not in school when he was in Britain but went to school in South America in a British colony.
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Who wrote Exposure?
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Wilfred Owen
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Who wrote Checking out me history?
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John Agard
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How can you compare extract from The Prelude and Kamikaze?
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At first, man is presented as being powerful. However, nature is truly powerful.
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Analyse: ‘cold clockwork’
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Harsh alliteration. Could be dehumanising the soldier, as he has to work almost like a machine. He has to blindly follow orders and is easily indispensable, being easy to replace.
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Analyse: ‘mind-forged manacles’
Blake uses it to emphasise that these ‘manacles’, while a direct result of religious, social, economic, and political forms of control, are also caused to continue by our own limits. In other words, we create our own internal mental prisons.
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Analyse: ‘All flesh is grass’
Biblical allusion. Reflects the fragility of life
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What does the structure of My Last Duchess suggest?
The poem consists of a lot of enjambment and is a long stanza. This could suggest that the speaker lacked control and power as he couldn’t control his speech. This undermines the power shown in his status and the form of the poem.
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Analyse: ‘Paper that lets the light/ shine through’
It could suggest the fragility of human power. Paper represents human power and how it isn’t strong.
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Analyse: ‘ Maps too. The sun shines through’
Man divides nature using maps but man’s power is still weak.
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Who wrote Kamikaze?
Beatrice Garland
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Analyse: ‘I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together’
He has ordered for her murder. Caesura at the end of this shows how her life ended abruptly.
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Analyse: ‘bandage up me eye with me own history’
Metaphor. Feels that he is deliberately being held back from knowing about his ‘own history’.
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Analyse: ‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’
Contrast between silence and sudden gunfire. This may be also the contrast between the sudden death caused by bullets and the slow death they are experiencing from the tedious waiting.
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Describe the context of the extract from The Prelude
The Prelude is the autobiography of Wordsworth, written entirely as a poem. Therefore this was a real experience. Also, he was a Romantic poet.
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Analyse: ‘.Rural England.’
Caesura surrounds ‘Rural England’. Suggests aa divide between the conflict of war and the people at home.
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Analyse: ‘Her father embarked at sunrise’
Links to Japan and the act of the kamikaze pilot because it linked to the Japanese flag, the land of the rising sun, which is also the military flag. It connotes the Japanese military which presents the power of man.
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What does the form of My Last Duchess suggest?
It is a dramatic monologue. The Duke is the only person that speaks and never lets anyone else speak even the person who the Duke is speaking to. This shows his dominance and power.
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Analyse: ‘Nothing beside remains.’
Bathos. Power + wealth declines after death. The caesura at the end of it signifies the blunt end of his power by nature.
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What does the structure of War Photographer suggest?
> Tight + controlled - 6 lines per stanza + similar rhyme scheme
> Reflects the War Photographer’s job to impose order
> Contrasts the chaos of war
> Impact of war is repetitive
> Cyclical structure - starts with him returning from a trip and ends with him going back on another trip. Idea of fate is repetitive until we understand the true horrors of war.
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Analyse: ‘chimney-sweeper’s cry /Every black’ning church appalls’
Presents the problem of child labour in 1794. He condemns the church for not solving the problem. The word ‘black’ning’ creates an impression of the church being corrupt.
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Analyse: ‘Half-flush that dies along her throat’
Sinister tone. Symbolises a blade running along her throat as she is about to be killed.
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What does the form of Ozymandias suggest?
It is a sonnet which is usually used for love poems. This could imply that Ozymandias loved himself and was self-obsessed. Also, it begins in a Petrarchan sonnet form. As it has an octave (first 8 lines present a problem) and then sestet (final 6 solve that problem). But it is not just a Petrarchan sonnet but it also has elements of Shakespearean sonnet. For example, the poem has ABAB rhyme scheme whereas the Petrarchan sonnet usually follows ABBA rhyme scheme. Finally the poem ends with a new type of sonnet as there is no rhyming couplet at the end. The change in sonnet form reflects that is power changing, moving hands and is transient. This undermines the idea of Ozymandias’ supreme power.
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What does the structure of extract from The Prelude?
> Repetition of ‘huge’ shows how he was impacted by the shock of seeing the power of nature. His great vocabulary has disappeared in sight of the power of nature.
> One long verse - reader can understand that the experience was overwhelming
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Who wrote ‘London’?
William Blake
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Analyse: ‘green-blue translucent sea’
Natural imagery creates a beautiful image of nature. This is significant as it shows the pilot questioning why he should deprive himself and others from experiencing nature by completing the kamikaze mission
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Analyse: wondered which had been the better way to die’
Tragic. Shows that the pilot’s decision to return was futile. He had emotionally died anyway by returning because they had treated him as if he no longer existed.
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Analyse: ‘But nothing happens’
Repetition. War is futile and soldiers are serving for little function for great costs.
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Analyse: ‘We turn back to our dying’
Casual. The war has impacted them so much that they are expecting and waiting to die. This emphasises the horrors of war.
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What does the structure of ‘London’ suggest?
Four quatrains (stanzas with four lines and alternating rhyme). ABAB rhyme scheme. Repetitiveness reflects the monotonous lives of Londoners. This emphasises their suffering.
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What does the structure of Kamikaze suggest?
> 6 lines per stanza reflects the tight control of the culture and military in Japan.
> Free verse + enjambment - contrasts with the strict number of line. This shows that lack of control and the freedom the pilot wants.
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What does the form of Poppies suggest?
Dramatic monologue - but not her personal experience. Direct address - never hear from the other person who the speaker is speaking to. Emphasises the pain of the often ignored mother. Also, emphasises how the son isn’t there.
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Analyse: ‘act of stealth’
Implies that the poet knows that his actions are morally wrong as he is sneakily stealing the boat. This could suggest that man is selfish and take what they want.
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What does the form of The Charge of the Light Brigade suggest?
Ballad. Story to be sung. This is make sure an important message is remembered.
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Analyse: ‘Frà Pandolf’
Repetition. Eager to show his wealth and connections. He values the painting for its status rather than his Duchess in it.
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What does the structure of The Charge of the Light Brigade suggest?
Dactylic diameter which adds energy advance to the poem making it seem like the hoof beats from the horses in the Light Brigade. This is broken in the line ‘someone had blundered’ to draw importance to the mistake caused by leaders who bought their way into military positions.
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Analyse: ‘probably armed, possibly not’
Hints the internal conflict within the soldier as his conscience tells him that the looter was armed but his head tells him that he may not have been armed.
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Analyse: ‘transparent’
Repetition. Could also mean honesty as well as clear. Poet could be trying to say that those in power need to be honest.
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Analyse: ‘sunlight’ - repetition
Positive imagery. Shows that the speaker will always have a positive view of the country and love the country.
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Analyse: ‘my last Duchess’
Possessive pronoun.
> Makes wonder how many he has had. Collector of painting and perhaps women
> Ambiguous. Could be his previous Duchess or final Duchess.
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How can you compare Remains and Bayonet Charge?
Both convey the horrors of conflict zones. Also, its shows the personal impact of war. BC - impact on soldier in war zone. Remains - somebody left behind - not in war zones but civilians.
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Analyse: ‘fly our lives like paper kites’
Simile. Money (paper) controls us. Man tries to be free but is controlled by nature.
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Analyse: ‘spits like a tame cat Turned savage’
The familiar sea suddenly becomes dangerous and threatening. Emphasises that nature is really powerful and shouldn’t be underestimated.
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Analyse: ‘dem tell me about Dick Whittington and he cat/ But Toussaint L’Ouverture ‘
Juxtaposition of the fairy tale character and L’Ouverture suggests an imbalanced focus. The juxtaposition is a metaphor for unimportant history taking over significant history.
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How can you compare Poppies and War Photographer?
Both present the domestic impact of war. Poppies - presents the personal impact of war on a mother. War Photographer - frustration at the lack of national impact of war on those at home.
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Analyse: ‘My city comes to me’; ‘My city takes me dancing’
Personification. Shows how much she loves the place and its power over her.
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Analyse: ‘yellow hare that rolled like a flame’
Soldier is acknowledging his terror and cowardice
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How can you compare ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘My Last Duchess’?
> Both present power of man
> But their power is undermined
> One is undermined by nature and one by a Duchess
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Who wrote Remains?
Simon Armitage
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Who wrote Storm on the Island?
Seamus Heaney
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What does the form of Checking out me history suggest? (3)
> In Oral poetry form to make people remember the black historical figures
> Caribbean language and phonetic spellings. Agard refuses to abide with the rules of the English language. He is standing against the Eurocentric view of history
> Lack of punctuation. Punctuation restricts emotions. Agard refuses to use it to display his full emotions and views.
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How can you compare Charge of the Light Brigade and Exposure?
Both present the true horrors of war. But Exposure presents war as being futile whereas Charge of the Light Brigade presents war as glorious.
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Analyse: ‘bright, filled paperweight’
Emphasises the power of the place on the speaker. Gives the speaker stability.
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Analyse: ‘There hung a darkness, call it solitude/ Or blank desertion’
Poet is depressed by the events. He is conscious of his limitations and feels isolated.
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Analyse: ‘his bloody life in my bloody life’
The guilt lingers within him. The guilt has blurred his clear thinking
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Describe the context of ‘London’
At the time (eighteenth century), England was developing rapidly. This was called the industrial revolution This industrialisation led to poverty and poor living conditions. Child labour was very common they worked long hours in very dangerous environments.
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Analyse: ‘Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but do and die’
Sums up the the honest, humble and heroism of the soldiers. They didn’t question the order and followed it. Tennyson honours them for it.
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What does the structure of Checking to me history suggest? (6)
> Lines 22-25 and 32-35 have a build-up of rhyme to the name of a black historical figure which reminds us of their importance
> Enjambment shows overflowing anger to show that black historical figures are just as important as the white ones
> Repetition of ‘Dem’ presents Agard’s anger at the miseducation in history.
> Free verse of the verses about the black historical figures highlights that nobody controls them and the italics of these verses are to make them stand out.
> Imagery of nature in the verses about the black historical figures shows that these people had positive influences on the poet
> Short lines present his anger of the miseducation.
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Analyse: ‘dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivel towards the sun’
Sibilance. Creates an impression of smoothness and the natural wonders of the world. Emphasises the power of nature
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What does the structure of Poppies suggest?
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> Free verse
> Enjambment
> Caesura
> Different stanza length
- Chaotic structure: reflects the impact of war on those at home
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Describe the context of Exposure
From WWII where Owen was a soldier
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What does the structure of bayonet charge suggest?
> Begins mid-action helps us understand how the soldiers are feeling - reflects the chaotic environment they are in
> Enjambment + caesure - chaotic, disorganised structure reflects the chaos in war
> Repetition of ‘raw’ - Poet can’t express the true horrors of war as he hasn’t directly experienced it
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What does the structure of Storm on the Island suggest?
> One long stanza + complex sentences
> Enjambment
Emphasises the overwhelming situation of the speaker - the power of nature. There is no time to think or breathe for the speaker.
> Half-rhyme at the start and the end - cyclical structure: Storm is inescapable
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Analyse: ‘I carving out me identity’
‘Carving’ is an active task. This suggests that people have to actively find their identity. Once we find our identity it validates us as suggested by him being the ending.
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Describe the context of My Last Duchess
Based on Duke of Ferrara. Poet had an influence from his father a s he had an extensive collection of arts, books and literature. Poet went to Italy to marry Elizabeth Barrett because of her overprotective father.
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Who wrote Ozymandias?
Percy Bysshe Shelly
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Analyse: ‘noble six hundred’
Honours the Light Brigade
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Analyse: ‘We are prepared’
The speaker is part of community, full of confidence. This could suggest that the community is accustomed to the power of nature
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Analyse: ‘tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’
Internal rhyme. Viewers are only briefly affected emotionally by these photo and then they return to their normal daily lives.
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Analyse: ‘She thanked men—good!’
Exclamation and change of structure. The verse is broken with caesuras to his rising anger. He is losing control, his personality is now angry when before it was calm.
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Who wrote ‘Tissue’?
Imtiaz Dharker
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Analyse: ‘ My name is Ozymandias, king of kings’
Hyperbole. Bold and authoritative statement. Shows the pride of Man. The pharaoh could think that he is god.
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Analyse: ‘patriotic tear’
He no longer weeps for his country as this experience of war has destroyed his former patriotism.
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Analyse: ‘hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’
Longing of the mother to hear his voice again. Wants to turn back time to when her son was a child.
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Analyse: ‘rips through his life’
Fragility of life. How easily it was to kill him.
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Who wrote bayonet charge?
Ted Hughes
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How can you compare Storm on the Island and The Emigrée
Both present nature as powerful and threatening. The Emigrée talks about the chaos in a place and the lack of power she has. Storm on the Island talks about a community getting used to the danger of nature but occasionally nature suddenly becomes very threatening. The Emigrée is a positive poem whereas Storm on the Island is quite negative.
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Analyse: ‘he earns a living and they do not care’
Emphasises the lack of a significant impact of war at home when its should. ‘They’ could be the public, the wider world or the readers of the poem.
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What does the form of extract from The Prelude suggest?
Epic poem as it written in iambic pentameter and is a long narrative poem. The boy comes to the realisation of the power of nature which is reflected by the Epic poem form. Also, the blank verse shows that the poet is so overwhelmed that he couldn’t form a sophisticated poem.
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What does the structure of Tissue suggest?
Enjambment and free verse emphasises the lack of control.
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What does the structure of Exposure suggest?
> Anti-climatic ending for each stanza
> Repetitive rhyme scheme - ABBAC
> Pararhyme - ‘knive us’/ ‘nervous’ - permanent sense of being on edge that the poet experiences in the war.
> Cyclical structure starts and ends with ‘But nothing happens’ - emphasises the futility of war.
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Who wrote My Last Duchess?
Robert Browning
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Analyse: ‘mark in every face I meet /Marks of weakness, marks of woe’
Same word but different word. Shows Blake’s frustration at the change in nature of London because of the industrial revolution.
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Analyse: ‘Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream’
Agard presents the historical figure as a visionary. This is to urges people to look up to her and follow Agard in finding out your ‘own history’ .
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Analyse: ‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera’
The soldier was fighting for these values but it has fizzled with the realisation of the reality of war.
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Analyse: ‘Notice Neptune, though,/ Taming a sea-horse’
Contrasts with the fact that he couldn’t tame his wife but ended up killing her.
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Analyse: ‘Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
Implies that the solider’s pain and suffering remains as they are buried in graves. Emphasises the harsh impact of war on soldiers. Poet is trying to get the viewers to sympathise and act on this problem.
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Who wrote The Emigrée?
Carol Rumens
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Analyse: ‘spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias’
Semantic field of injury and war. Idea of conflict is overwhelming for her.
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Analyse: ‘Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point’
Shows the pride of man. He is dominant as he decides where he wants to look.
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Analyse: ‘released a song bird from its cage’
Mother is releasing all her emotions by crying. She doesn’t want her son to go off to war and thinks he is making the wrong decision. This is emphasised by ‘intoxicated’ - implies that he is making an uncontrolled and thoughtless decision.
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Analyse: ‘merciless iced east winds that knive us...’
Sibilance. Harsh weather is killing them. Emphasises the intensity of the horrors of war
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Describe the context of the Charge of the Light Brigade
From the Crimean war. The Light brigade was the unarmed cavalry who were told to charge at the opposition due to a mistake from inexperienced leaders.
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What does the structure of Remains suggest?
> Begins mid-action helps us understand how the soldiers are feeling - reflects the chaotic environment they are in
> Repetition of ‘somebody else’ shows that the speaker is trying to put blame on others for the murder but he then repeats ‘my’ which suggests that at home he is taking the blame.
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Analyse: ‘half-formed ghost’
Photo is start to fade into existence. The soldier’s suffering isn’t remembered making this situation repetitive.
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Analyse: ‘tosses his guts back into his body’
Crude language is used because they are all affected but unable to express their feeling. Could be trying to mask their guilt.
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What does the structure of The Emigrée suggest?
> Free verse
> Enjambment
> Caesura - ‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death’
- Reflects the chaos in the country and lack of power of the speaker
> Similiar stanza lines - 8, 8, 9 - speaker imposing order in the chaotic country
> Last longer stanza - she doesn’t want to leave.
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Analyse: ‘chartered street.....chartered Thames’
Repetition. Nature controlled by man. Reflects the lack of freedom in London.
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Describe the context of Ozymandias
Based on the discovery of the large statue of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Rameses II. Egyptian Pharaohs believed that they were gods and their legacy would last forever.
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Analyse: ‘a huge peak, black and huge’
Nature appears as the powerful force. Emphasises the impact it had on his mind.
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Analyse: ‘turned into your skin’
Metaphor. Emphasises how human power is fragile like tissue paper.
