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- 1Who wrote "Remains" and what is it based on?Armitage
Iraq War- between USA and Iraq - 2Remains "his ___ life in my ___ hands" "____ armed, _____ not" "His ____ stays on the street" "he’s here in my ____ when I close my eyes, ____ in behind ___ ___" "I see every ___ as it rips through his ___"bloody, bloody (repetition, shows how gruesome it was)
probably, possibly (lexical the choice, the police werent sure if he was armed yet chose to shoot anyways)
blood-shadow (metaphor, his mark is left not only on the street but in his mind)
head, enemy lines (metaphor, also consonance, the person is "stuck" in the persons mind)
round, life (short alliteration of r, mimics the sound of gunfire in a sense) - 3Who wrote "Storm on the island" and what is it based on?Heaney, the irish-northern ireland conflict
- 4SOTI "We are ___, we build our houses ___" "Forgetting that it ___ your house too" "Exploding ___ down on the ___" "The very ___, spits like a tame ___ turned ___" "We are ___ by empty air, strange it is a huge ___ we fear"prepared, squad (pronoun we depicts that the community is prepared for the storm)
pummels (emotive language, emphasises how violent this "storm" is)
comfortably, cliffs (oxymoron for something)
windows, cat, savage (oxymoron/metaphor, shows how the weather used to be their friend due to farming but is now against them)
bombarded, nothing (another oxymoron, depicts how they arent sure if they should be afraid or not) - 5Who wrote exposure and what is it based on?Owen, WW1
- 6Exposure (yay) "Our ___ ache, in the ___ iced east winds that ___ us" "But ____ happens" "Sudden ____ flights of bullets ____ the ____" "For love of ____ seems ____" "We only know ____ lasts, rain ____ , and clouds ____ stormy"brains, merciless, knive (metaphor, portrays how the wind is in fact kniving them and not the enemies)
nothing (repetition of this phrase could show how war is pointless if nothing is achieved)
successive, streak, silence (sibilance represents the sound of gunfire and tinnitus)
god, dying (declarative, their last hope is faded out and they have nothing to rely on)
war, soaks, sag (triplet, shows the pessimistic views the narrator is having) - 7Who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade and what is it based on?Tennyson, Crimean War
- 8"Into the ___ of death, into the ___ of hell" "Theirs not to make ___, theirs not to ___ why, theirs but to ___ or die" "While ___ and ___ fell, those who had fought so ___" "Cannon to ___ of them, Cannon to ___ of them, Cannon in ___ of them"jaws, mouth
reply, reason, do
horse, hero, well
the left, the right, front - 9Who wrote war photographer and what is it based on?Duffy, actual war photographers portraying the horrors of war
- 10"with ___ of ___ set out in ordered rows" "to fields which don’t ___ beneath the feet of running ___ in a ___ heat" "beneath his ___, which did not ___then though seem to now" "A hundred ___ in black and white" "he earns his ___ and they do not ___"spools, suffering (sibaliance)
explode, children, nightmare
hands, tremble
agonies
living, care - 11Who wrote "London" and what is it based onWilliam Blake, 1802 London
- 12"marks of ___, marks of ___" "In ___ cry of every man, in ___ infants cry of ___, in ___ voice, in every ___" "I ___ through each ___ street" "But most through ___ streets I hear, how the youthful ___ ___"Weakness, Woe (alliteration, shows how every person there is metaphorically scarred)
Every, every, fear, every, ban (repitition shows how EVERYONE is affected)
walk, chartered (chartered- controlled, lack of freedom)
midnight, harlot curses - 13Who wrote Poppies and what is it based on?Jane Weir, a mother saying goodbye to her son during ww1
- 14"___ the ___ of my face" "turned into ___, slowly ___" "the world ___ like a ___ chest" "Later a single ___ flew from the ___ tree" "play at being ___ like we did when you were ___"Steeled, softening (sibilance, attempts to hide her true feelings)
felt, melting (metaphor, also a caesura and enjambent)
overflowing, chest (similie shows how his world is full of new oppurtunities)
dove, pear (symbolism for peace/mourning)
eskimos, little (similie? remembers the joyous things) - 15Who wrote The Emigree and what is it based onCarol Rumens, Immigration
- 16"It ___ be at war, it ___ be sick with ___" "but i am ___ an impression of ___" "It tastes of ___" "There once was a ___ ... i left it as a ___" "but my city ___ to me in its own ___ plane" "and my ___ falls as evidence of ___"may, may, tyrants (repetition indicates its not as big of an issue for the narrator)
branded, sunlight, sunlight (repetition, imagery for a bright future)
country, child
comes, white (metaphor, she has memories of her city and its still with her)
shadow, sunlight - 17Who wrote Kamikaze and what is it based on?Beatrice Garland, Japan ww2 suicide bombs
- 18"they ___ him as though he no longer ___" "a ___ head full of powerful ___" "and enough ___ for a one-way journey into ___" "safe to ___, salt-sodden, ___" "that this was no ___ the father we ___" "which had been the ___ way to ___"treated, existed
shaven, incantations
fuel, history
shore, awash
longer, loved
better, die - 19(responsibility) The Inspector Quotes?"All intertwined with our lives, with what we think and do"
"We dont live alone, we are all members of one body" - 20(responsibility) Mr Birling Quotes?"A man has to make his own way..... has to look after himself"
"horrid business, but i don't understand why you should come here"
"socialist crank" - 21(responsibility) Sheila/Eric Quotes?S - "At least im trying to tell the truth"
S - "I'll never ever do it again, to anybody"
S - "I behaved badly, I know I did and i am ashamed of it"
E - "You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but i cant"
E-"That doesn't matter to me. The one I knew is dead" - 22IF NOT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MRB/MRSBMrB - "the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke"
MrB - "I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business"
MrsB (bitch) - "As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money"
MrsB - " I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept
no blame at all" - 23IF NOT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERIC/SHEILAE - " And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters"
E - "Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices"
S - "Is it the one you wanted me to have?"
S - "Yes, go on mummy"
S - "And if I could help her now, I would" - 24IF NOT RESPONSIBLE GERALD/INSPECCY BOYG - "After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals"
G - "“Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”
I - "it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it"
I - "it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves
in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their
dingy little back bedroom" - 25Who wrote The PreludeWordsworth
- 26"and troubled ___ nor without the ___" "Small ___ glittering idlely by the ___" "There hung a ___. call it solitude" "Remained, no ___ images of ___" ""The horizons bound, a ___ peak, black and ___"pleasure, voice
circles, moon
sadness, solitude
pleasant, trees
huge huge - 27Who wrote ozymandiasSHELLEY
- 28"and wrinkled ___ and sneer of cold ___" "of that ___ wreck" "Look on my ___ ye mighty and ___" "The hand that ___ them, and the ___ that fed"lip, command (wrinkled suggests his power fading, sneer conveys rulers have no sympathy)
colossal
works, despair (the sculptor calling ozy "despair" , irony as made to show power but has opposite effect (fading))
Mocked, Lips - 29Poems for Loss and Absence Memory Identity Pride FearLondon, Exposure, Kamikaze, The Emigree, Poppies
Remains, WP, The Emigree, Kamikaze
COTLB, Poppies, The Emigree, Kamikaze, COMH
Ozymandias, My Last Dutchess, The Prelude
The Prelude, SOTI, Poppies - 30Poems for Power of Humans Power of Nature Effects of conflict Reality of conflict GuiltRemains, Ozymandias, MLD
Exposure, SOTI, Ozymandias, The Prelude
COTLB, Exposure, Remains, War Photo
Same as above
London, WP, Kamikaze
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