War and Conflict Poetry Quotes Flashcards
(43 cards)
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Form - Ozymandias:
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*Mix of Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnet
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Language - Ozymandias
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- “I met a traveller”
- “Sunk”, “Shattered”, “Frown”, “Wrinkled”, “Snear”
- “Cold Command”
- “”My name is Ozymandias, look on my works, ye mighty and despair”“
- “Boundless and bare”
- “Lone and level sands stretch far away”
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Structure - Ozymandias:
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- “Round the decay / of that colossal wreck”
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Form - London
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- Rhyme scheme = ABAB
- Regular line length, stanza length
- Metrical Pattern = Iambic Tetrameter
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Language - London:
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- “Chartered Thames”
- “Cry of every man”, “Infants cry of fear”, “voice in every barn”
- “Mind forged manacles”
- “Marriage hearse”
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Structure - London:
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- “Chartered”
- “Marks”
- “Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
- “In every”
- Cyclical structure (focus of each paragraph)
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Language - Extract From the Prelude:
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- “Its usual home”
- “Stealth”
- “Troubled Pleasure”
- “Proud of his skill”
- “Chosen point”
- “Craggy ridge”, “utmost boundary”
- “Elfin Pinnace”
- “Heaving through the water like a swan”
- “Trembling oars”
- “I left my bark”
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Structure - Extraxt from the Prelude:
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- No stanzas or major breaks
- Enjambment at Volta
- “Huge peak, black and huge”
- “No familiar faces”, “No pleasant images of trees”, “No colours of green fields”
9
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Form - My Last Duchess:
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- Dramatic Monologue
- 29 Rhyming Couplets
- Iambic Pentameter
- 1 stanza
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Language - My Last Duchess:
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- “Will’t you please sit and look at her?”
- “If they durst”
- “You”, “Sir”
- “How shall I say?”
- “ - good!”
- “I gave commands then all smiles stopped”
- “Cast in bronze for me”
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Structure - My Last Duchess:
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- “My”
12
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Form - The Charge of the Light Brigade:
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- Dactylic Dimeter
- “Someone had blundered”
- Irregular rhyme scheme
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Language - The Charge of the Light Brigade:
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- “All in the valley of death”
- “Theirs not to”
- “Cannon”
- “Thunder’d”
- “Wonder’d”
- “Mouth of hell”
- “Jaws of death”
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Structure - The Charge of the Light Brigade
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- “Half a league, half a league, half a league onwards”
15
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Form - Exposure:
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- Rhyme scheme = ABBAC
- Pararhyme
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Language - Exposure:
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- “Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
- “Mad gusts”
- “Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks”
- “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
- “Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
- “Gunnery rumbles” “Dull rumble”
- “For the lack of God seems dying”
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Structure - Exposure:
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- “Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing sunk fires”
- “But nothing happens”
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Language - Remains:
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- “Legs it up the road”
- “Probably armed, possibly not”
- “Letting fly”
- “Sort of inside out”
- “Drink and drugs wont flush him out”
- “Dug in behind enemy lines”
- “Sun-stunned, sand-smothered”
- “My bloody hands”
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Structure - Remains:
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- “On another occasion”
- “Somebody else and somebody else”
- “Three”
- “I swear / I see every round as it rips through his life”
- “Then I’m home on leave. But I blink”
- “Probably armed, possibly not”
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Form - Bayonet Charge:
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- No Rhyme scheme
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Language - Bayonet Charge:
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- “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
- “Stumbling, lugged”
- “Numb as a smashed arm”, “Dropped like luxuries”, “Rolled like fire”
- “Yellow hair”
- “He”
- “Etcetera”
- “His terror’s touchy dynamite”
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Structure - Bayonet Charge:
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- “Suddenly”
- “Raw”, “Raw”, “Raw”
- “Was he the hand pointing that second?”
- “Furrows / Threw up”
- Repeated Caesura and Enjambment
- “Green hedge”
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Form - Storm on the Island:
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- Dramatic Monologue
- No rhyme scheme (but 2 lines of pararhyme at beginning and end, “Squat” and “slate”, and “air” and “fear”)
- No separate stanzas
- Iambic pentameter
- “Fear”
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Language - Storm on the Island:
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- “We”
- “As you see”, “you know what I mean”
- “Exploding comfortably”
- “Stafes”, “Salvo”
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Structure - Storm on the Island:
* **Enjambment from lines 5 to 10**
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Form - War Photographer:
* **Regular Rhyme scheme = ABBCDD**
* **Regular Stanza length**
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Language - War Photographer:
* **“Ordered Rows”**
* **“Like a priest preparing to intone a mass”**
* **“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh"**
* **“The reader's eyeballs pricked with tears”**
* **“They do not care”**
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Structure - War Photographer:
* **“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh"**
* **“.Rural England.”**
* **“Tears" “Beers”**
* **“From the aeroplane”**
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Form - Poppies:
* **Dramatic Monologue**
* **Free verse**
* **Different stanza lengths**
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Language - Poppies:
* **“I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias”**
* **“Sellotape bandaged around my hand”**
* **“Reinforcements of scarf, gloves”**
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Structure - Poppies:
* **“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting”**
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Form - The Emigree:
* **Free verse**
* **Semi regular line length of 8/9 lines**
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Language - The Emigree:
* **“There once was a country…”**
* **“The bright filled paperweight”**
* **“Branded by an impression of sunlight”**
* **“Sick”, “comes to me”, “it lies down”, “I comb its hair”, “Takes me dancing”, “My city hids behind me”**
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Structure - The Emigree:
* **“Branded by an impression of sunlight”**
* **“I carried here / like a hollow doll”**
* **“They accuse me”, “They circle me”, “They mutter death”**
* **Epistophe of “sunlight”**
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Form - Tissue:
* **“Free verse”**
* **“Turned into your skin”**
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Language - Tissue:
* **“Paper that lets the light through”, “Alter things”, “Koran”**
* **“Maps too. The sun shines through”**
* **“Borderlines, the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds”**
* **“Fine slips” “Like paper kites”**
* **“Daylight breaks through capitals and monoliths”**
* **“Turned into your skin”**
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Structure - Tissue:
* **Enjambment between stanza's 1, 2, and 3**
* **“Transparent”**
* **“Turned into your skin”**
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Form - Checking out me History:
* **Stanzas about black historical figures are in Free verse**
* **AAAA rhyme scheme for comparison stanzas**
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Language - Checking out me History:
* **Creole language, phonetic spellings, and lack of punctuation**
* **“Bandage up me own eye with me own history”**
* **Lack of punctuation in italicised stanzas**
* **“Dem tell me about Lord Nelson and waterloo, but them never tell me about Shaka da great Zulu”**
* **“Carving out me own history”**
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Structure - Checking out me History:
* **“Dem tell me”**
* **“Dick Whittington and he cat”, “Toussaint L'Overture”**
* **“Balloon”, “Spoon”, “Moon”, “Nanny de Maroon”**
* **Enjambment**
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Form - Kamikaze:
* **Regular Stanza Length**
* **Free Verse**
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Language - Kamikaze:
* **“Samurai Sword”**
* **“Shaven heads full of powerful incantations”**
* **“She”, “He”**
* **“Little fishing boats”, “Green-blue translucent sea”**
* **“Figure of eight”**
* **“Shoals of fish flashing silver as their bellies swivel towards the sun"**
* **“Built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles”**
* **“A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”**
* **“Which had been the better way to die?"**
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Structure - Kamikaze:
* **“Safe” “Safe” “Safe”**
* **“Laughed / Till”**
