Themes in Power and conflict

Power of Humans
1. Tissue
  1. "Might fly our lives like paper kites
  2. "The shapes that pride can make
2. ozymandias
  1. "ye mighty and despair"
  2. "And on the pedestal"
  3. "Sneer of cold command"
Power of Nature
1. ozymandias
  1. "Of that collosal wreck
  2. "lone and level sands strech far away"
  3. Shatter'd vissage lies"
2. Exsposure
  1. "Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"
  2. "merciless iced east winds that Knive us
  3. Pale flakes with fingering stealth
  4. "All their eyes are ice"
3. Tisssue
  1. "The Sun shines through"
  2. "A structure never meant to last"
  3. With living tissue
effects of Conflict
1. Exsposure
  1. "Shutters and doors, all closed:on us the doors are closed
  2. "Is it that we are dying
  3. "For love of God is dying
  4. "All their eyes are ice
2. Poppies
  1. "I was Brave
  2. "Released a songbird from its cage"
  3. "An ornamental stitch
3. War photographer
  1. ‘The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers’
  2. ‘.Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain
  3. "Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
Reality of conflict
1. Exposure
  1. "Is it that we are dying"
  2. "But nothing happens"
  3. "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
2. War photographer
  1. "Running Children in Nightmare heat"
  2. "Blood stained in foreign dust"
  3. "All flesh is grass
Loss and Absence
1. Exsposure
  1. "Shutters and doors,all closed on us the doors are closed"
  2. "For love of God seems dying"
  3. "Is it that we are dying
2. Poppies
  1. "Sellotape bandaged
  2. "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial"
  3. "a single dove flew from the pear tree
Memory
1. Poppies
  1. Sellotape bandaged around my hand"
  2. "Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind
  3. "Turned into felt
2. War photographer
  1. "A half formed ghost
  2. "They do not care
  3. "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
Negative Emotion Anger
1. War photographer
  1. "they do not care"
  2. "Sundays supplement
  3. "to do what someone must"
Negative Emotion Guilt
1. War \Photographer
  1. "how he sought approval without words to do what someone must"
  2. "His hands which did not tremble then though seem to now"
Negative Emotion Fear
1. Poppies
  1. "I was brave"
  2. "my stomach busy making tucks darts and pleats"
  3. "Steeled the softning"
Negative Emotion pride
1. Ozymandias
  1. "look on my works, ye mighty and despair"
  2. shatter'd visage"
  3. "Decay of colossal wreck"
Identity
1. Poppies
2. Tissue
  1. "Written in the name and histories , who was born to whom
  2. "Fine slips from grocery shop"
  3. "Fly our lives like paper kites
  4. "turned into your skin"

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