Power and conflict poems 28th March

Question 1

Ozymandias context

Answer 1

Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, revolves around romanticism, which is a movement from the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. It explains the power of nature and believes in expression above reason. He tried to capture extreme emotions

Question 2

Ozymandias structure and form

Answer 2

Rhyme scheme comes back at the end of the poem to show nature taking the statue away from the king.
Sonnet: A form of irony.

Question 3

Ozymandias quotations

Answer 3

1) I met a traveler from an antique land
2) who said two vast and trunkless legs and stone
3) half sunk a shattered visage lies
4) and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
5) which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things.

Question 4

London context

Answer 4

Written by William Blake and their are 2 main collections of proms he wrote. Songs of innocence and songs of experience. He also has radical views about politics and society.

Question 5

London structure + form

Answer 5

A B rhyme scheme means that there is never ending suffering. 4 lines for every 4 stanzas.

Question 6

London quotations

Answer 6

1) I wander through each chartered street
2) never where the chartered Thames does flow
3) and mark in every face I meet
4) marks of weakness marks of foe.
5) In every cry of every man.

Question 7

My last Duchess context

Answer 7

Ferrara is a region of Italy. In 1561 the duke of Ferrara’s wife Lucrazia died in suspicious circumstances. There were roomers that she died a horrible death. Bearing events around this inspired Robert Browning to write this poem.

Question 8

My last Duchess structure + form

Answer 8

Dramatic monologue and rhyming couplets show the dukes desire for ultimate control

Question 9

My last Duchess quotations

Answer 9

1) That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall
2) will’t pleas you sit and look after her ? I said
3) sir ‘‘twas all one !
4) my gift of a nine hundred year old name
5) in speech to make your will

Question 10

Exposure context

Answer 10

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) is recognised as today’s leading poetic voices of WW1. During his lifetime he only had 4 poems published. In 1915 he enlisted in the army but returned in 1915 due to shellshock. He was killed on the 4th November 1918. His poems represent the voices of soldiers in his command.

Question 11

Exposure quotations

Answer 11

1) our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us ….
2) worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous.
3) watching, we hear the mad gusts.
4) pale flakes with fingering stealth, come feeling for our faces.
5) littered with blossom trickling where the blackbird fusses

Question 12

Storm on the island Context

Answer 12

Northern Irish poet called Seamus Heaney, often wrote about his childhood, nature and being on islands. The people discribes an experience of being on a cliff top cottage off the coast of an Ireland during a tretchous storm.

Question 13

Storm on the island structure + form

Answer 13

Blank verse - mirrors patterns of everyday speeches

But - line 11 - Volta - change monocilabic - 1 symbol and slow paced.

Question 14

Storm on the island quotations

Answer 14

1) we are prepared: we build our houses squat.
2) sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate
3) this wizened earth has never troubled us
4) which might prove company when it blows full
5) blast: you know what I mean - leaves and branches

Question 15

Remains context

Answer 15

From 2008 collection, based on a real account of a solider who survived in Iraq. Poem looks at the effects of war.

Question 16

Remains structure + form

Answer 16

Eight stanzas, final stanza only has 2 lines and therefore stands out. This emphases the fact that the speaker can’t get rid of the killing.
This was written as a monologue, the feel of fast paced natural speech.
First 4 stanzas describes the shooting, the rest describes the aftermath.

Question 17

Remains quotations

Answer 17

1) On another occasion we get sent out.
2) to tackle looters raiding a bank
3) probably armed possibly not
4) well myself and somebody else and somebody else.
5) I see every round as it rips through his life

Question 18

Poppies context

Answer 18

Carol Ann Duffy asked Jane weir to write a poem for carols war collection. Also links to a poem called Flanders fields. Jane is a textiles designer and implements this into her poems.

Question 19

Poppies structure + form

Answer 19

No rhyming scheme means that there is a lack of control over the emotion of her son, or unexpected changes she cannot account for. You cannot predict war so this is mirroring conflict.

Question 20

Poppies quotations

Answer 20

1) three days before armistice Sunday
2) and poppies had already been placed
3) on individual war graves. Before you had left
4) I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals
5) spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade

Question 21

War photographer context

Answer 21

Duffy was inspired to write this poem by her friendship with a war photographer. She was pulled by a particular challenge, that these people had to record these horrible events but weren’t allowed to help there subjects Duffy shares an affinity with these photojournalists.

Question 22

War photographer structure + form

Answer 22

Regular six line stanzas with each stanza ending with a rhyming couplet. This is interesting as the very rigid order contrasts with the chaotic disturbing images.

Question 23

War photographer quotations

Answer 23

1) in his darkroom he is finally alone
2) with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
3) the only light is red and softly glows
4) although this were a church and he
5) a priest preparing to intone a mass