Power and conflict

• The structure for analysing poetry includes comparing the titles, opening, middle, and volta (shift in poem).
• Form can be embedded in any of the above paragraphs, not as a separate paragraph.
• The comparisons for the opening, middle, and volta have been done for you.
• Key vocabulary and context can be found in the poems.
• Key quotes can be found in the poems.
• Themes in the poems include patriotism, heroism, glory, sacrifice, instability, futility, inexperience, idealism, duty, and momentum.
• Tennyson, the poet laureate, is mentioned in Bayonet Charge.
• The Battle of Balaclava is mentioned in Bayonet Charge.
• Hughes’s father fought in WWI and the poem Bayonet Charge describes trench warfare, psychological trauma, and WWI lasting longer than expected.
• “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”
• In the poem "My Last Duchess", the speaker describes a painting of his former wife, which he keeps in his study.
• In the poem "Ozymandias", a traveler encounters a broken statue of a king, symbolizing the hubris of the king.
• The opening line of "My Last Duchess" is "I met a traveller from an antique land".
• The opening line of "Ozymandias" is "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone".
• The middle of "My Last Duchess" features the line "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies".
• The middle of "Ozymandias" features the line "The sneer of cold command".
• The volta of "My Last Duchess" is "boundless and bare/...Nothing besides remains".
• The volta of "Ozymandias" is "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
• The poem "My Last Duchess" includes supporting quotes such as "King of Kings" and "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed".
• The poem "Ozymandias" includes supporting quotes such as "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed".
• “The air is full of voices, / But no one speaks, / No one moves, / No one hears, / No one cares, / No one sees, / No one knows, / No one tells, / No one goes, / No one comes, / No one leaves, / No one lives, / No one dies, / No one exists, / No one sees, / No one knows, / No one tells, / No one goes, / No one comes, / No one leaves, / No one lives, / No one dies, / No one exists, / No one sees, / No one knows, / No one tells, / No one goes, / No one comes, / No one leaves, / No one lives, / No one dies, / No one exists, / No one sees, / No one knows, / No on