Power And Conflict Light Up Hub Flashcards
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Key context for kamikaze?
Garland uses peotry to immerse herself in other views
Japan military attituedws were founded on codes of honour and self sarcrifce.
Pilots were volunteers which convey how firmly beliveved in these values, enough to sacrifice their own lives
What are key quotes in kamikaze?
Title of poem “kamikaze” and “her father”- noun “father” imbues poem with sense of intimacy. Juxtaposes military rile as a “akamikaze” pilot: military expectations corrupt familial life and stripe a personal agency.
“Full of powerful incantations”(spells)- image of incantations suggest piolt was under an indoctinating (brainwashing) propoganda spell. Irony of “powerful”-dehumanisation and marginalisation (treated significicatnyl
Form of kamikaze?
Divided into sestests (stanzas kf 6 lines) which can be grouped into 2
First 5 describe story of her fathers mission. Yet final 2 explore his return, compresses the years after his return to be far shorter
Gravitas (seriousness) of his descion within that one moment cut his life cut short.
Metre (rhythm) poem written in free verse mimicking the flight of the plane
What can you compare kamikaze with?
Identidy-exposure, robbed by the war
Human control/power-exposure powerless to propoganda +war
War-bayonet charge-questioning the sacrifice
Memories-poppies-memories of loved ones tarnished by war
What is londons context?
William Blake was Romantic poet-believed nature was awe-inspiring (fear and inspired)
He was anti-established (government, church etc)-abused power
Religious
What is londons key quotes?
“Mind-forged manacles”-semantic feild of oppression: oppression so deep, it has formed these “manacles around individuals’ minds, confined to misery
Symbolism: “manacles” mimickes how poeple in london are closely interrwined with their misery and oppression- inescapable
“In every infant’s cry of fear”- anaphora (repition of word) mimics cyclical torturing in london are subject to
Oxymoron-“infant” and “fear”-innocence of youth has been corrupted and stolen
What is the form of london?
Quatrains (stanzas with four lines) and ABAB rhyme to emulate the mass of oppression and restriction the lower class were subject to and also shows a universal tone as easy to understand.
Iambic tetrameter- heightens the motif of oppression that permeates the poem; there is no freedom to escape this control
What does london compare with?
Identity- My last duchess- oppression of an individuals identity by higher power
Human control/ power- ozymandias oppression of people by a leader/leaders
Memories- my last duchess- memories tainted by the speakers perception
What is key context for ozymandias?
Shelley was a Romantic poet-believed in power of nature and the spiritual connection to it (known as the sublime)
Shelley was antimonarchy (anti-royalty) and a pacifict (against war)
What are key quotes in ozymandias?
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”-irony of kings hubris and vanity in his appearance. Embodies his tyrannical power doesnt last and shows cruelty and indifference.
Diction of “shattered”: only fragments of shattered statue remain, symbolised the collapse and decay of tryannicsl authority.
“Lone and level sands” nothing beside remains- alliteration, emphasiesmthe vast and mighty extent if nature. Whereas the human sees his power eroded and chipped away by time, nature enjoys transcendent power, shows futility of human power.
Metaphor, of passage of time-statue becomes engulfed by desert sands, parallels Ozymandias memory gradually obscured (covered)
What is ozymandias form?
Mix of Petrachan and Shakespearean sonnet- mirrors ozymandias’ love and obession he had with himself due to his hubris
But ridicules lack of love ozymandias’ people had for him due to his tyrannical and callous (cruelty)rule
Iambic pentameter- used as a motif of control. Used throughout the poem in order to demonstrate frightful
regularity of oppression by those in power on those they rule. Suggest there is no way to escape -constrained by oppressive tyrant
What can you compare ozymandias to?
Identity- London-oppression of peoples identities by a leader/leaders
Human control/power-london- oppresssion of people by leader/leaders
Power of nature- exposure-human power is nothing compared to nature
Tissue- the memories of human power doesn’t last
Key context for checking out me history?
Growing up in British Guyana, John Agard recieved a british education
After living in Britain for 30years and seeing rhe flawed and oppressive education system collection called “half-caste and other poems” which explored issues of race and identity. Eurocentric education.
Key quotes from checking out me history?
“I carving out me identity”- personal pronoun- he is taking personal charge over a identity, a power denied to him through the systematic exclusion of black history.
Colloquialism- writes how he speaks- regional dialect and a refusal to conform to the lexis of thise that educated him- clear deliberate act of defense against literary norms.
“Mary Seacole” “Fire-woman struggle” “a healing star”- motif of light with black historical figues
“Star” provides hope, peace and divine shows that these historical figures carved out a passage to freedom and illuminated a route out of colonialism
What is checking out me history form?
Free verse- use of rhyming quatrains (stanzas of 4 lines)- metaphoricsl act of breaking free from European cinvention as he abandons poetic tradition
Each reference to black history comes at the end of each stanza, perhaps critquing how white history was prioritised
Final image remains more pertinent in readers mind, sp giving them acknowledgement they deserve
What dies checking out me histroy compare to.
Identitiy-london- individual indentity stripped by their oppressor/higher authoritarian power
Human control/power- london-powerless to higher authoritaritan power
Memories- ozymandias-memories about legacies of past historical figures
What is key context for exposure?
Owen wrote poem while in trenches in 1917- wrote poetry to express the horrors of war opposed to internalising it. Makes it more real
Inspired by writers like Siegfried Sasoon who critiqued patriotism (love for country) and jingoistic (extreme patriotism) attitudes.
What are key quotes for exposure?
“Dawn massing in the East her melancholy army”- personification of “dawn” being a belligerent (aggressive) and violent army juxtaposes traditional views of Mother nature of nurturing, soldiers vs weather.
Ironic “dawn” typically is used as a symbol of renewal, offers no such promise- their future appears as a black and unyeilding as the predawn darkness they emerge from. Being emasculated by the weather.
“We turn back to out dying”“for love of God seems dying”- semantic feild of death and decay, fear is notably absent, soldiers have learned to accept the inevability of death, having constantly waiting for it, noth8ngness, defeat, dehumanised.
Disillusionment (not as good as orginally thought)- idea of religion due to being subject to dehumanising condions
Previous indoctrination (brainwashing) amd jingoism (extreme patrolism) of sacrifce for your country and God seems meaningless in such conditions
What is the form of exposure?
Pararhyme- “knife us”“nervous”
Half rhyme evoke a sense of unease and dissatisfaction in the reader, as they anticipate a full rhyme
Mirrors the soldiers’ anxious anticipation of conflict, their minds unsettled by nervous tension of awaiting battle
Cyclical strucutre- “but nothing happens” used to frame the poem as well interspesed throughout
Continuous vicious cycle of war and suffering as well as highligting that there is no true end to soldiers plight (struggle)
Modern day still happening (conflict
What does exposure compare to?
Identity-kamikaze idenity stripped of the individual from war
Power of nature- ozymandias-human power is weak in the face of mature
Memories- bayonet charge -powerlessness of soldiers on the battle feild and to propoganda
What are key context in poppies?
Weir has two sons herself which likely drove her empathy towards a mother who had ro say goodbye to a son leaving for war
Spending several years in Belfast, Weir lived through the Troubles of the 1980s- a period defined by conflict and violence
Poppies became a symbol of remembrance in 1921 after they grew on battlefeilds that had been used during world war 1
Being published in 2009, the first war would of been fleeting from peoples living memory, Weir may have seen it as her duty to keep enforcing the importance of remembrance
What is the form of poppies?
Dramatic monlogue- allows every aspect of poem to be imbued with personal emotions
Second person- dircted at her son, suggestion of absent listener amplifies sense ofmloss and mourning
Gives a voice to those who were generally overlooked during thenwar-the mothers and families of soldiers still when traumatic emotions
No regular rhyme/free verse, stanza length is irregular which makes poem seen controversial and intimate.
What does poppies link with?
War photographer and kamikaze
What are key quotes from poppies?
“Three days before Armistice sunday” begins with refrence to rememberance and mourning, setting a tone of grief and reflection right from the start.
“I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red”- metaphor of “spasms” recalls physical injury and involuntary pain of memory as she relives trauma of parting.
