Themes in Power and conflict

Themes in Power and conflict

1. Power of Humans

   • Tissue
     • "Might fly our lives like paper kites
     • "The shapes that pride can make
   • ozymandias
     • "ye mighty and despair"
     • "And on the pedestal"
     • "Sneer of cold command"

2. Power of Nature

   • ozymandias
     • "Of that collosal wreck
     • "lone and level sands strech far away"
     • Shatter'd vissage lies"
   • Exsposure
     • "Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"
     • "merciless iced east winds that Knive us
     • Pale flakes with fingering stealth
     • "All their eyes are ice"
   • Tisssue
     • "The Sun shines through"
     • "A structure never meant to last"
     • With living tissue

3. effects of Conflict

   • Exsposure
     • "Shutters and doors, all closed:on us the doors are closed
     • "Is it that we are dying
     • "For love of God is dying
     • "All their eyes are ice
   • Poppies
     • "I was Brave
     • "Released a songbird from its cage"
     • "An ornamental stitch
   • War photographer
     • ‘The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers’
     • ‘.Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain
     • "Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

4. Reality of conflict

   • Exposure
     • "Is it that we are dying"
     • "But nothing happens"
     • "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
   • War photographer
     • "Running Children in Nightmare heat"
     • "Blood stained in foreign dust"
     • "All flesh is grass

5. Loss and Absence

   • Exsposure
     • "Shutters and doors,all closed on us the doors are closed"
     • "For love of God seems dying"
     • "Is it that we are dying
   • Poppies
     • "Sellotape bandaged
     • "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial"
     • "a single dove flew from the pear tree

6. Memory

   • Poppies
     • Sellotape bandaged around my hand"
     • "Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind
     • "Turned into felt
   • War photographer
     • "A half formed ghost
     • "They do not care
     • "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

7. Negative Emotion Anger

   • War photographer
     • "they do not care"
     • "Sundays supplement
     • "to do what someone must"

8. Negative Emotion Guilt

   • War \Photographer
     • "how he sought approval without words to do what someone must"
     • "His hands which did not tremble then though seem to now"

9. Negative Emotion Fear

   • Poppies
     • "I was brave"
     • "my stomach busy making tucks darts and pleats"
     • "Steeled the softning"

10. Negative Emotion pride

    • Ozymandias
      • "look on my works, ye mighty and despair"
      • shatter'd visage"
      • "Decay of colossal wreck"

11. Identity

    • Poppies
    • Tissue
      • "Written in the name and histories , who was born to whom
      • "Fine slips from grocery shop"
      • "Fly our lives like paper kites
      • "turned into your skin"