Poetry Power and Conflict

Question	Answer
Storm on the Island	Seamus Heaney
Storm on the Island investigates themes such as .... and...... It describes ..... and uses we, the first person plural to describe the communal experience. "" One ...., compact like the '' houses	humans vs nature fear a community preparing for a storm "we are prepared" stanza "squat"
There is a .... field of .... using words like "" and "" Similes such as "" personify the storm	semantic war bombarded exploding "spits like a tame cat turned savage"
The attitudes in the poem change from .... , .... and then ..... ..... structure shows repeated relentlessness of storm "" 'Stormont' relates to recent .... in Ireland	security, fear, helplessness Circular "We are prepared....strange it is a huge nothing that we fear" violence
Compare with the fear of nature in	Exposure
Tissue	Imtiaz Dharker
There is ..... therefore focusing on general humanity. ... of rhythm and rhyme gives poet ..... The poem is built up in ..... like life, stanza by stanza. It refuses a ..... interpretation. Themes include....	No specific speaker lack freedom layers simple power of humans vs nature and identity
Sunlight is shown as a positive force that can "" The delicacy of paper is an ...... for human life. "turned into ...."	"shine through borderlines" extended metaphor your skin"
The poem has 3 parts, history,experiences and life. The final line "" questions the reader Repetition of "" shows the never ending control of paper	"turned into your skin" "smooth stroked and turned"
Compare with ... or .....	Checking out me History
Bayonet Charge	Ted Hughes-father in WW1, Inspired by WOwen
Explores the thought of .... showing .... and the .... of conflict Uses 'he' therefore.... Enjambment, caesura, and uneven lines represent the soldier stumbling	soldier going over the top fear effects and reality ambiguous
Simile "" showing how he finds war difficult to describe and has lost rational thought "etcetera"	"like a man who has jumped up in the dark listening between his footfall for the reason of his still running"
Starts in the middle of the action Time stops in second stanza Gives up in final stanza. Attitude of .... and ....	terror and confusion
Compare with	Charge of the Light Brigade
Remains	Simon Armitage
Real story of British soldier in .... and shows his PTSD. Sounds like a confession due to... Uses 'we' before changing to 'I' as the guilt increases.	Iraq ...no constraints on the rhythm or rhyme and use of caesura and enjambment
Juxtaposition of : Graphic Imagery "" reminds reader of ... of war And Casual Language so desensitized feelings of man, trying to hide feelings.	tosses his guts back into his body horror
Repetition shows how the PTSD.... "" Turns from anecdote to... Turning point when....	is always there "dug in behind enemy lines" confession he returns home
Compare with	War Photographer Feelings of guilt, memory and conflict
War Photographer	Carol Ann Duffy
Regular rhyme and stanza length like.... Follows the photos journey.	...the photographers organised work, and the care he takes, applying structure to chaos.
Emotive imagery. "a strangers features...."	"....faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost"
Circular Structure shows how.... Contrasts Rural England and ...., Widows tears and ....... . Feelings of ....	nothing changes and his work doesn't have a impact War Zones Readers prick pain, detachment, anger
Compare with ....	Remains
Emigree	Carol Rumens
1st Person. .... therefore.... No rhythm or rhyme represents...	vague relates to many people lack of continuity in her life
Language about light and dark. Describes old city as "" and new city accuses her of "". Shows how she doesn't fit in. Personification shows how memories of her city are like a friend.	"sunlight clear" "being dark" "takes me dancing"
1+2 Have enjambment 3 Doesn't 4 is longer	Freedom/nostalgia No freedom in new city or old city-threatened Doesn't want her old city to leave her
Compare with	London-Place
Ozymandias	Percy Shelley didn't like oppression and absolute power
Second hand account.... One stanza.... About Ramses II	distances reader from events Short like pharaohs rein
Pharaohs uses powerful and aggressive language "" but it is ironic because "". His ""	"king of kings, look on my word ye mighty and despair" "nothing beside remains" "shattered visage"
Attitudes of .... and .... Describes small details at beginning, which is...	pride and arrogance contrasted later with the large empty desert.
Compare with	My Last Duchess - power and pride
London	William Blake - wanted equality
Describes miserable walk through London.... Dramatic Monologue, first person narrative makes it .... and .... Rhyme scheme shows...	not helped by people in power dramatic and personal endless suffering of people in city
Uses senses immersing the reader. Emotive language to try and gain support for his beliefs. "" oxymoron shows how even everything is effected. Babies are born into a nasty world. Marriage leads to children, life union, but prostitutes don't have that	the youthful harlots curse blights with plague the marriage hearse
Beginning focuses on people affected, 3rd focuses on organisations causing problems. Ends with lost innocence of babies leaving impression on reader. Repeats "every" suggesting....	....no one is unaffected
Compare with	Emigree-Experiences, Anger, lack of hope
Poppies	Jane Weir
1s person narrative about a son leaving to war.... No regular rhythm or rhyme show how her life is now jumbled, and she is reliving thoughts and memories. Long sentences and enjambment.... Caesura is used when she tries ....	ambiguous show how she is lost in thought to hold herself together.
Uses senses wanting son to be physically there Domestic imagery"" juxtaposed with war imagery ""	"my stomach busy making tucks, darts and pleats" "bandaged, spasms of red, reinforcements"
Follows events chronologically however..... feelings of ....	memories are sprinkled occasionally, showing how he is on her mind loss, and fear
Compare with pride in	Kamikaze
Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred Lord Tennyson About Crimean War. Cavalry sent into valley surrounded by Russians. Generals paid way to top. Public were unhappy. As Poet Laureate had to write about it. Didn't like rich people
.... person. Chronological Story. Broken rhythm sounds like....and .... men	3rd horses hooves and falling men
Uses double meaning to show Alfred's hatred of power and the stupid rich, but also the admiration of the soldiers. "ered" ""	"someone had blundered  all the world wondered"
Repetition at end of paragraph of "" shows vast number of people and casualties. Foreshadowing "" shows how generals should've known better Attitudes of .... and ....	"into the valley of death, rode the six hundred" admiration and patriotism
Compare with .. or...	bayonet charge-charges to death
Prelude	William Wordsworth- Grew up in Lake District. Romantic Poet
Personal experience. Regular rhythm sounds like.... and lack of .... adds.... Part of unfinished collection of poems about his life. 1 stanza and enjambment is ...... No breaks	speech rhyme serious tone overwhelming
Exteneded metaphor for ... control over .... Uses weaker language, repeating words"" showing authors... and ...	natures control over man "huge peak, black and huge" shock and fear
Starts ..... then becomes .... and upon ..... we learn how as a young man ..... ""	confident fearful reflection he thought he knew everything and has much to learn "trouble to my dreams"
Compare with Similar themes of ...	Kamikaze nature and fear turning around
Kamikaze	Beatrice Garland
About ......who turned around. .... when he returns home due to cultural beliefs of .... 3rd person distances reader from pilot. Direct speech from daughter ..... Absence of pilots voice...	Japanese Kamikaze pilot shunned dying for your country creates empathy shows how he no longer speaks
Power of nature shown through ..... ""	detailed descriptions that triggered him to turn around " green blue translucent sea"
Chronological order shows changes from .... to ... and .... 1 sentence for man's flight. Final sentence leaves reader reflecting ""	patriotism to shame and regret "which was the better way to die"
Compare with	Prelude. Power of nature, fear, turning around
Checking out me History	John Agard- Black Caribbean raised in England Anger at the emission of black people from history by the British Empire who educated everyone with their own history.
Uses ... and .... creating a Caribean accent and not conforming to the rules of English language. 1st person and refers to ""distancing the author from the people trying to control him and villainising them	enjambment and phonetic spelling "dem"
metaphors of vision shows how black history was hidden "" "" metaphor of "carving" to show the process of finding himself and his history. Painful but unchangeable.	"bandage up my eye"-pirate "blind me to my own identity"
Meant to be heard, and .... used to make it memorable so ideas spread. Juxtaposes white people and nursery rhymes....	repetition showing how history was picked and choose turning it into no more than a fairy tale
Compare with	Tissue Identity, control
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning
About .... Dramatic monologue.. Extract from a conversation, however other person doesn't talk. Rhyming couplets show Duke's.... Enjambment shows....	Duke Alfonso of Ferrera desire for control gets carried away within own voice.
Uses a .......tone ""	sinister and powerful "I gave commands then all smiles stopped together."
Foreshadowing "" wife's painting controls him , even though he... Feelings of ... ,and .... We find out at the end ....	"looking as if she were alive" killed her and hides her away pride and jealousy he is arranging his next marriage
Compare with....	Ozymandias -Power and pride
Exposure	Wilfred Owen-WW1 Soldier
Present tense, 1st person plural shows collective experience, Regular rhyme scheme is .... and....also shown by half lines and rhymes. Expecting but no delivery.	anticlimactic and shows monotonous nature of war "but nothing happens"
Personifies nature making it sound like the enemy " Sibilance "	"merciless iced winds that knife us" "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
Circular structure shows Rhetorical questions answer themselves at the end of each stanza""	how everyone experiences the monotonous nature of trench warfare. "what are we doing here"
Compare with fear and nature in	Storm on the Island

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