Power And Conflict Poetry Flashcards
(175 cards)
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War photographer quote about suffering
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“Spools of suffering”
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War photographer quote about countries
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“Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”
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War photographer quote about the famous photo of a napalm attack in the Vietnam war
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“Running children in a nightmare heat”
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War photographer quote about ghosts
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“A half formed ghost”
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War photographer quote about blood
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“Blood stained into foreign dust”
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War photographer quote about agonies
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“A hundred agonies in black - and - white”
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War photographer quote about earning
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“He earns his living and they do not care”
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Who was war photographer written by
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Carol Ann Duffy
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What do you link war photographer to
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Exposure - nihilism
Kamikaze - duty
Bayonet charge/remains - war effects everyone
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Form and structure of war photographer
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Ordered sextets (ordering photos and soldiers)
Rhyme (predictability of war)
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Context of war photographer
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The writer was friends with 2 famous war photographers
Published in 1985 (10 years after Vietnam war)
Campaigns and protests against the war
Phenom penh was the Cambodian genocide
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Author’s intention of war photographer
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Difficulties and responsibility of a war photographer (duty)
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Exposure quote about wind
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“Merciless iced east winds”
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Exposure quote about nothing
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“But nothing happens”
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Exposure quote about watching
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“Watching, we hear mad gusts”
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Exposure quote about agonies
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“Twitching agonies of men”
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Exposure quote about war
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“We only know war lasts”
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Exposure quote about snow
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“Flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew”
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Exposure quote about dreams
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“Back on forgotten dreams”
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Exposure quote about ghosts
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“Our ghosts drag home”
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Exposure quote about dying
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“We turn back to our dying”
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Who was exposure written by
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Wilfred owen
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What do you link exposure to
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War photographer on nihilism
London/storm on the island/ozymandias - powerlessness
Prelude - power of nature
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Form and structure of exposure
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Half rhyme - shows confusion
Starts as it begins - envelope/trapped
Quintains - predictable/commanded
1st person due to first hand experience
“Our” collective suffering
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Context of exposure
Written 1917 3 years into WW1 in the coldest winter
Cynical first hand view of war
Died just before war ended
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Authors intentions of exposure
To show powerlessness of soldiers against nature and war
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Bayonet charge quote about tears
“Patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
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Bayonet charge quote about jumping
“Running like a man who has jumped up in the dark “
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Bayonet charge quote about a hare
“Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
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Bayonet charge quote about a mouth
“It’s mouth wide”
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Bayonet charge quote about honour
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
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Bayonet charge quote about dynamite
“His terrors touchy dynamite”
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Bayonet charge quote about a rifle
“A rifle numb as a smashed arm”
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Who wrote bayonet charge
Ted Hughes
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What do you link bayonet charge to
London/light brigade- over controlled
War photographer/remains - effects on all
Exposure - nihilism
Kamikaze - duty and influence
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Form and structure of bayonet charge
No rhyme and uneven lines - chaotic/panic/unpredictable/uncertainty of war
Enjambement - no rest
3rd person - remote
Begins in media res
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Context of bayonet charge
Writer was a child in WW2 - saw post war effects
Grew up in countryside - natural imagery
Tribute to fathers suffering
Inspired by Wilfred Owen
Bayonet charges were notorious for high casualties
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Authors intention in bayonet charge
To show the brutal reality of war, and as a tribute to his father
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The émigré quote about tyrants
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
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The émigré quote about sunlight
“I an branded by an impression of sunlight”
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The émigré quote about tyrants
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
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The émigré quote about tongue
“I can’t get it off my tongue”
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The émigré quote about passport
“I have no passport, there’s no way back at all”
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The émigré quote about paper
“Lies down in front of me, docile as paper”
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The émigré quote about absence
“They accuse me of absence “
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Who wrote the émigrée
Carol rumens
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What do you link the émigrée to
The prelude - not belonging/nature
Checking out me history - embracing culture
London - corruption
Kamikaze - desertion
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Form and structure of the émigrée
Free verse, enjambement- lack of power or control - freedom of memories
Regular stanza - corruption/control
Final paragraph has caesuras and end stopped lines to show that she cannot escape this new city
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Context of the émigrée
Writer born in London but lived in Belfast and wales
Traveled wildly - Russia and Eastern Europe
Focuses on identity and culture
Emigrant - someone who leaves a country
Published during the conflict in what was Yugoslavia
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Authors intention of émigrée
To show a migrants personal view of displacement and connection to identity
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Kamikaze quote about history
“A one-way journey through history”
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Kamikaze quote about the sea
“A green-blue translucent sea”
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Kamikaze quote about fishes
“Dark shoals of fishes flashing silver”
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Kamikaze quote about returning
“Though he came back”
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Kamikaze quote about existing
“They treated him as though he no longer existed”
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Kamikaze quote about not returning
“To live as though he has never returned “
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Kamikaze quote about death
“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die”
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Who wrote kamikaze
Beatrice Garland
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What do you link kamikaze to
Prelude - power of nature
Bayonet charge - duty and influence
Émigrée - desertion
Remains - consequences of decisions
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Form and structure of kamikaze
Narrative
6 sextets - regular/predictable war, lack of control over political power
Starts in 3rd person and moves to 1st
Non-liner/free verse - reminiscing
The fathers voice is never heard which shows his disconnect from the family
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Context of kamikaze
Kamikaze pilots were chosen by the government for suicide missions, shunned if refused
Culture based on family honour
The writer was inspired to look into why people died for their country
Writer works as a researcher for physiological medicine
Kamikaze means divine wind - state manipulation
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Author intention of kamikaze
To show the effects of war and consequences of decisions
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The prelude quote about ripples in the moon
“Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track”
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The prelude quote about the boat
“My boat went heaving though the water like a swan”
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The prelude quote about the mountain
“A huge peak, black and huge”
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The prelude quote about the shape
“The grim shape towered up between me and the stars”
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The prelude quote about purpose
“With purpose of its own…like a living thing, strode after me”
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The prelude quote about living men
“Huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men”
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Who wrote the prelude
William Wordsworth
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What do you link the prelude to
Kamikaze - power of nature
Émigrée - unbelonging
Storm on the island - power of nature
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Form and structure of the prelude
No rhyme
Rhythmic like rowing
1 long stanza - like the mountain
Enjambement - heavy breathing in panic
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Context of the prelude
Romantic poet - natural imagery and revelling against formal poetry requirements
Opposed industrialisation
Story of how the writer stole a boat as a right of passage into adulthood
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Authors intention of the prelude
To convey that every man is powerless to nature
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London quote about streets
“I wander through each chartered street “
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London quote about marks
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
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London quote about voice
“In every voice, in every ban”
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London quote about soldiers
“The hapless soldiers sigh”
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London quote about palace
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
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London quote about marriage
“Plagues the marriage hearse”
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Who wrote London
William Blake
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What do you link London to
Bayonet charge/duchess - control
Exposure/light brigade - powerlessness
Émigrée - corruption
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Form and structure of London
Regular rhyme ABAB
Quatrains
Regular meter - control/order/containment
Lugubrious tone
End stopped lines
Sensory tour in paragraphs
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Context of London
Writer was anti- urbanisation
Romantic poet
3 evils - church/monarchy/government
Time of king George III - French Revolution
Child labour / prostitution
Loss of nature
Published in songs of innocence and experience to show the “two contrary sides of the human soul”
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Authors intention of London
To convey the corruption and loss of natural world
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Who wrote ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What do you link ozymandias to
Exposure - powerless to nature
My last duchess - pride and arrogance
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Form and structure of ozymandias
Irregular, slow rhythm - death
Iambic pentameter
Sonnet 14 lines - sonnet structure breaks down at the end of poem to symbolise the break down of the Pharos control
Changes in focus
Rhyme - order and control
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Context of ozymandias
Based on Ramasses II the great who would have been a god on earth
Romantic poet
Writer inspired by a statue Napoleon had sent to England from conquering Egypt
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Authors intention of ozymandias
To convey the insignificance of human life against nature
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Who wrote my last duchess
Robert Browning
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What do you link my last duchess to
London - control and oppression
Ozymandias - pride and arrogance
Light brigade - control
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Form and structure of my last duchess
Dramatic monologue
1 sided conversation - control
Rhyming couplets - control
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Context of my last duchess
Based on the duke of Ferrara, whose wife died suspiciously
Writer takes on a poetic persona
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Authors intention of my last duchess
Desire of complete control over another - criticism of patriarchy
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Who wrote the charge of the light brigade
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What do you link the charge of the light brigade to
Bayonet charge - control over easily replicable troops
My last duchess - control
London - powerlessness
Exposure - futility
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Form and structure of the charge of the light brigade
Rhythm of horses
Ballad
Irregular structure - fell apart
6 stanzas for the 600 men
3rd person for distance and respect
Fast paced battle and poem
Repetition shows inevitability of their deaths
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Context of the charge of the light brigade
1834 - lord Cardigan led 670 to charge the enemy when they were meant to retreat - lasted 20 minutes
271 casualties
Crimean war - first war with modern technology
Wanted to show patriotic British feelings to encourage war
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Authors intention of the charge of the light brigade
To immortalise the light brigade - died fruitfully and in vain
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Who wrote storm on the island
Seamus Heaney
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What do you link storm on the island to
Exposure - powerless to nature
London - powerless to oppression
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Form and structure of storm on the island
Fast paced
Inclusive 1st person
Solid stanza
Little punctuation - panic
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Context of storm on the island
Metaphor for political arguments in Stormant in Ireland
Poet is northern Irish
Vulnerability on the island
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Authors intention of storm on the island
To shows the vulnerability of people to nature and government
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Who wrote remains
Simon Armitage
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What do you link remains to
Bayonet charge - PTSD and effects on all
Exposure - wars effects
War photographer - guilt
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Form and structure of remains
Cathartic - release of emotion
Stream of consciousness
Quatrains + closing couplet - ordered army
Enjambement - fluid/conversational
1st person monologue
Shorter last stanza to suggest the soldier won’t recover
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Context of remains
Writer was interviewing soldiers with PTSD for a documentary “the not dead”
Guardsman Tromans story in Iraq
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Authors intention of remains
Awareness of PTSD and effects of war
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Who wrote poppies
Jane Weir
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What do you link poppies to
Bayonet charge - tribute to those left behind
Tissue - human life and loss
Remains - wars lasting effects
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Form and structure of poppies
Free verse, no rhyme - overwhelm of loss
Enjambement - emotions spilling out
Dramatic monologue
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Context of poppies
Poetic persona of a mother
Writer had 2 sons and was a textile designer
Religious imagery
Susan Owen specifically
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Authors intention of poppies
To show a Mothers perspective of war and loss
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Who wrote tissue
Imtiaz Dharker
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What do you link tissue to
Émigrée - paper and identity
Poppies - religion and loss
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Form and structure of tissue
Stream of consciousness/freedom of the mind
Quatrains - predictability of life/seasons
Cyclical - no ending
1 line ending - clear end to all things
Line lengths decrease toward the end of the poem to show life’s degradation
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Context of tissue
Tissue as a metaphor for human life - fragile, transient, disposable
Conflicting identity - Pakistan/Glasgow
Husband had cancer for 11 years before dying
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Authors intention of tissue
To show human life breaking free from non-spirituality
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Who wrote checking out me history
John Agard
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What do you link checking out me history to
Émigrée - embracing culture
Ozymandias - history and legacy
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Form and structure of checking out me history
Dual structure (italics) - separation of history
Phonetic rendition - authenticity and accent
Dem to I - ownership of identity
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Context of checking out me history
Toussaint L’overture - led révolution in Haiti, bécane the First Nation free from slavery
Learning about culture
Writer saw Guyana gain independence in 1966
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Authors intention of checking out me history
To show that education is corrupt/racist/patriarchal - carve out own identity
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Ozymandias quote about kings
“King of kings”
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Ozymandias quote about despair
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
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Ozymandias quote about nothing
“Nothing besides remains”
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Ozymandias quote about shattered
“Shatter’d visage”
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Ozymandias quote about bareness
“Boundless and bare”
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My last Duchess quote about curtains
“None puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I”
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My last Duchess quote about possessive pronoun
“My lady’s”
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My last Duchess quote about the pride of his name
“Nine-hundred-years-old name”
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My last Duchess quote about flushed
“Faint half-flush that dies along her throat”
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My last Duchess quote about intensifiers repetition
“Too soon made glad, too easily impressed”
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My last Duchess quote about commands
“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together”
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The charge of the light brigade quote about die
“Do and die”
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The charge of the light brigade quote about the valley
“Valley of death”
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The charge of the light brigade quote about shots
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”
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The charge of the light brigade quotes about personifying death
“Mouth of hell”
“Jaws of death”
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The charge of the light brigade quote about honour
“Honour the charge they made”
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The charge of the light brigade quote about six
“Six hundred”
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Storm on the island quote about company
“Prove company when it blows full blast”
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Storm on the island quote about comfort
“Exploding comfortably”
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Storm on the island quote about a cat
“Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
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Storm on the island quote about siting
“Sit tight”
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Storm on the island quote about nothing
“A huge nothing that we fear”
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Storm on the island quotes about noises of the sea
“Blast”
“Exploding”
“Spit”
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Remains quotes about colloquial language
“Legs it up the road”
“One of my mates”
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Remains quote about somebody
“Somebody else and somebody else”
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Remains quote about orders
“We get sent out”
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Remains quote about life
“Rips through his life”
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Remains quote about guts
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
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Remains quote about probably
“Probably armed, probably not”
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Remains quote about blinking
“But I blink, and he burst again through the doors of the bank”
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Remains quote about guilt and blood
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
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Poppies quote about graves
“Individual war graves”
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Poppies quote about red
“Spasms of paper red”
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Poppies quotes about military language
“Blockade”
“Bandaged”
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Poppies quote about childhood
“Playground voice”
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Poppies quote about religious imagery
“Blackthorns”
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Poppies quote about tucks
“Tucks, darts and pleats”
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Poppies quote about a dove
“The dove pulled freely”
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Tissue quote about light
“Light” can “alter things”
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Tissue quote about paper
“Paper thinned by age”
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Tissue quote about smooth
“Smoothed and stroked”
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Tissue quote about buildings
“Buildings were paper”
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Tissue quote about kites
“Might fly our lives like paper kites”
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Tissue quote about human life
“Living tissue” “turned into your skin”
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Checking out me history quote about blinding
“Blind me to me own identity”
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Checking out me history quotes about Mary Seacole
“A healing star”
“Yellow sunrise”
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Checking out me history quote about fairytales
“Dick Whittington and he cat”
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Checking out me history quote about who led the revolution in Haiti
“Toussaint L’ouverture”
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Checking out me history quote about those forced out by the British and French
“De Caribs”
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Checking out me history quote about those wiped out by foreign diseases
“De Arawaks”
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Checking out me history quote about identity
“I carving out me identity”
