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What does the quote “bandage up me eye with my own history”show?
Which poem is it from?

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-checking out me history
-people in power want to prevent him from understanding his own history
-metaphor-agard is isolated from society

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What does the quote “blind me to my own identity” show?
Which poem is it form?

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-checking out me history
-people in power want to prevent him form understanding his own history
-repetition of ‘own’ shows anger
-loss of knowledge of own history/identity compared to being unable to see yourself (blind)

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What does the quote “dem tell me what dem want to tell me” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-checking out me history
-he doesn’t know much about his history because of with holding important information
-repetition suggests anger
-cyclical structure-he takes control

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What does the quote “but now I checking out me history” show”?
Which poem is it from?

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-checking out me history
-poet is taking control of identity and understanding his history
-conjunction shows contrast
-Volta-total shift in poem from victim to empowered

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What does the quote “on another occasion we get sent out” show?
Which quote is it from?

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-remains
-a soldier narrates a story about an incident involving the war he was in
-more stories-normal occurance
-in media res-reader is thrown in unprepared like the soldier

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What does the quote “probably arms, possibly not” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-remains
-‘probably’ comes first as he would like to believe this
-speaker reflects on whether the looter was armed and wether he is guilty or not

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Which themes are shown in checking out me history?

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-identity
-power of humans

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What does the quote “I see every round as it rips through his life” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-remains
-describes fatal injury of the looter at the hands of the narrating soldier
-metaphor - life=body— vivid image of death
-plosives ‘p’ sound of gun
-pronounce ‘i’ shows effect of violence on soldier

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What does the quote “his bloody life in my bloody hands” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-remains
-Soldier excepts his individual guilt
-metaphorical- for his individual guilt
-repetition: ‘bloody’ - covered in blood or colloquial language

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What does the quote “his bloody shadow stays on the street” show?
Which poem is it form?

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-remains
-The soldier talks about how the blood stain remains visible after the incident
-a shadow of guilt follows you around
-metaphor - blood stays on the ground

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Which themes are shown in remains?

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-effects of conflict
-reality of conflict
-individual experiences
-negative emotions

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What does the quote “spools of suffering” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-war photographer
-photographer is developing photos of suffering
-metaphor - suggests all photos depict scenes of pain and destruction
-sibilance -slows pace
-plural - suggests amount of suffering

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What does the quote “all flesh is grass” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-war photographer
-‘flesh’ - bloody human
-metaphor - suggests life is fragile — we will all die

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What does the quote “running children in a nightmare heat” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-war photographer
-a reference to an iconic photo of children running from a napalm attack in Vietnam
-‘children’ - innocence, protection
-imagery - image of conflict

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What does the quote “a half formed ghost” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-war photographer
-a photo of a man in his dying moments
-metaphor - describing how the image of a man appears on paper - how the man disappears

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What does the quote “eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers” show?
Which poem is it form?

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-war photographer
-Duffy describes how people in England have little regard for suffering of those in a war zone
-suggests blood and pain for only a short period

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Which themes are shown in war photographer?

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-effect of conflict
-reality of conflict
-negative emotions

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What does the quote “it may be sick with tyrants” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-emigree
-her homeland is suffering under dictators
-personification - political problems presented as plague/disease — spread but can be cured

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What does the quote “but i am branded with an impression of sunlight” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-emigree
-speaker cannot forget her home city and is branded by its memory
-contrast with tyrants
-metaphor-branded = scared, showing belonging — pain + damage
-connotes happiness and hope

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What does the quote “that child’s vocabulary is carried here” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-emigree
-speaker reflects on her home language which has stopped developing
-adjective - simple, needs care + attention
-verb - suggests she is looking after her language
-metaphor

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What does the quote “it tastes of sunlight” show?
Which quote is it from?

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-emigree
-speaker reflects on the preciousness of her home language
-unpleasant taste but sunlight is positive
-synaestasia - mixing up senses —— suggests confusion

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What does the quote “my city hide behind me. They mutter death” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-emigree
-The emigree feels protective towards her home town she grieves its loss
-pronounce ‘they’ - ambiguous language - people disrespecting her
-personification-her city is presented as weak and child-like

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What themes are shown in emigree?

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-memory
-identity
-negative emotions
-reality of conflict

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What does the quote “her father embarked at sunrise” show?
Which poem is it from?

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-kamikaze
-poem begins with the father setting off on a suicide mission at dawn
-3rd person ‘her’: creates distance from pilot reflecting cold treatment from community + family
-symbolism-‘sunrise’: new life or after life

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What does the quote “like a huge flag … in a figure of eight” show? Which poem is it from?
-kamikaze -the father looks down at the sea and sees a school of fish -symbol-infinity — war going one side to another -simile - fish more like a flag — symbol of national pride
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What does the quote “a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.” Show? Which poem is it from?
-kamikaze -pilot remembers how his father once caught a tuna — symbol of manhood/power -‘tuna’ extended metaphor -fish — people are trapped by traditions and culture -first full stop followed Volta
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What does the quote “nor did she meet his eyes” show? Which poem is it from?
-kamikaze -pilot is shunned by family + community after he returns -perspective shifts from 3rd to 1st person
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Which themes are shown in kamikaze?
-memory -negative emotions -individual experiences -power of nature -identity
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What does the quote “i met a traveler from an antique land” show? Which poem is it from?
-ozymandias -the poet speaks in first person and relates a tale told by a traveller -1st person perspective—distance from ozymandias + his power — diminished, undermines power -noun ‘traveller’: romantics looked up to people who travelled + sought truth -‘antique land’ - old, valuable adjectives (long forgotten, fallen empire)
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What does the quote “and wrinkled lip, sneer of cold command” show? Which poem is it from?
-ozymandias -the artist has captured ozymandias’s hubristic nature -‘wrinkled’ - adjective: old, weak, sneering — power fading -‘sneer’ - noun: ridicule, no interest in helping subjects -‘command’: military, powerful -humans should not cling to power
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What does the quote “the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed” show? Which poem is it from?
-ozymandias -describes how these negative emotions ended up on the statues face -metaphor-artist feels hurt at own treatment + presents ozymandias negatively -artist is powerful
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What does the quote “my name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty and despair” show?
-the message about ozymandias’s power which the sculptor added to the statue -Volta — shift in perspective to ozymandias’s words -irony — the words speak of power but the ruined statue shows a lack of power — presented as vulnerable-human power does not last
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What does the quote “of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare” show? Which poem is it from?
-ozymandias -human achievements are presented as limited and insignificant in comparison tot he power of nature -‘wreck’ - broken, neglected, forgotten -oxymoron - emphasising how his power did not last -alliteration - emphasises how vast and empty the dessert is
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What does the quote “upreared its head, i struck and struck again, and growing still in stature the grim shape towered up” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -the poet describes how he watches the mountain growing in size in front of him — panic -repetition - violent verb — fighting power of nature -personification presents a sense of fear — mountain = monster
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What does the quote “there hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -the poet feels the experience haunts him like a shadow -narrator lacks words to describe how he feels / doesn’t understand it -Poe this aware of limitations
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What does the quote “one summer evening led by her” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -narrator tells us about an experience in his childhood -pathetic fallacy - pleasant tone -personification of nature - female - nurturing creator suggests narrator is no tin control but believes himself to be confident
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What does the quote “a huge peak, black and huge” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -describes how the mountain peak looms up -plosives ’p’ sound suggests dominance -colour symbolism - dark side of nature reflected (powerful and unknown) -repetition - emphasising the size of the mountain and presents narrator as lost for words — we see the impact
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What does the quote “our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -possessive adjective — universal experience of soldiers (includes Germans) -personification - nature is a powerful enemy not Germans -physiological impacts of war -ellipsis shows tension
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What does the quote “dawn massing in the east her melancholy army” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -personification - dawn = army -‘her’ not nurturing
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What does the quote “attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -irony - usually represents hope -attacked with force - nature is powerful -either grey clouds of rain + snow OR soldiers are shivering in weather
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What does the quote “less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -personification + colour symbolism - deadly -oxymoron - snow is white -bullets are not as deadly as weather
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What does the quote “shutters and doors, all closed:on us the doors are closed,-“ show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -no new families = no young men -caesura - soldiers in trenches are separated form home, soldiers next to shut door either forced to war OR they are dead (families have moved on)
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What does the quote “pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -assonance - ice is in the eyes - war is placing a strain on natural relationships / friendships -the frost disfigures them - unrecognisable -refrain - cyclical structure - soldiers have achieved nothing, war is futile OR criticising generals
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What does the quote “unpreared its head. I struck and struck again, and growing still in statue the grim shape towered up” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -the poet describes how he watches the mountain growing in size in front of him - panic -prepositional verb— power, dominant -repetition ‘struck’:violent verb— fighting back against power of nature-powerless -personification- creates a sense of fear -mountain=monster -juxtaposition - enormous mountain vs insignificant boat + man
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What does the quote “there hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -afterwards, the poet feels the experience haunts him like a shadow-depression -the narrator lacks words to describe how he feels - doesn’t understand it -‘solitude’ noun: loneliness, singled out, neglected - alone but without choice -poet is aware of his limitations
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What does the quote “one summer evening (led by her)” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -the narrator tells us about an experience in his childhood -pathetic fallacy:pleasant tone -personification of nature:female— nurturing creator suggests narrator is not in control but believes himself to be confident
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What does the quote “a huge peak, black and huge” show? Which poem is it from?
-the prelude -describes how the mountain peek looms up -plossive ‘p’ sound suggests dominance -colour symbolism - dark side of nature reflected (powerful and unknown) -repetition- emphasising the size of it and presents narrator as lost for words - we see how impacted he is
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What does the quote “our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -perssecive adjective - universal experiences of soldiers (even Germans) -phycological impacts of war -personification - nature is a powerful enemy (not Germans) - exposure to elements -ellipsis creates tension
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What does the quote “dawn massing in the east her melancholy are attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -personification - dawn=army -irony - usually represents hope -attacked with force - nature is powerful -soldiers shivering in weather
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What does the quote “less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow” show? Which poem is it from?
-exposure -bullets are not as deadly as weather -personification /colour symbolism - deadly -oxymoron - snow is white
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What does the quote “shutters and doors, all closed:

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