power and colnflict quotes

• Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, explores the power of nature and humans, with emotions such as pride and fear.
• London, by William Blake, focuses on the power of humans and loss and absence, with emotions such as pride, anger, and fear.
• The Prelude, by William Wordsworth, highlights the power of nature and memory, with emotions such as pride, fear, and anger.
• My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning, depicts the power of humans and memory, with emotions such as pride, anger, and fear.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, explores conflict and identity, with emotions such as pride, anger, and fear.
• Exposure, by Wilfred Owen, focuses on the power of nature and conflict, with emotions such as fear, loss, and absence.
• Storm on the Island, by Seamus Heaney, highlights the power of nature and humans, with emotions such as fear and pride.
• Bayonet Charge, by Ted Hughes, explores conflict and emotions, with individual experiences of fear.
• In the poem "Remains", by Simon Armitage, the narrator lugs a rifle numb as a smashed arm and is filled with terror.
• In the poem "Poppies", by Jane Weir, the narrator experiences loss and absence, and their individual experiences are reflected in the poem.
• In the poem "Checking Out Me History", by John Agard, the power of humans is explored, and their emotions (anger) and identity are reflected in the poem.
• In the poem "Tissue", by Imitaz Darkher, the power of nature and humans is explored, and their identity is reflected in the poem.
• In the poem "War Photographer", by Carol Ann Duffy, the narrator experiences loss and absence, and their identity is reflected in the poem.
• In the poem "The Emigree", by Carol Rumens, loss and absence are themes, and the narrator's individual experiences are reflected in the poem.
• In the poem "Kamikaze", by Beatrice Garland, the power of humans is explored, and their conflict, loss and absence, memory, emotions (guilt), and identity are reflected in the poem.
• Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley Power of nature Power of humans Emotions (Pride) ‘I met a traveller from an antique land’ ‘The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’ ‘sneer of cold command’ ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ ‘Nothing beside remains.’
• London, by William Blake Power of Humans Loss and Absence Emotions (Pride, Anger) ‘chartered streets… where the chartered Thames does flow’ ‘mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ ‘mind forged manacles’ ‘Every black’ning church appals’ ‘blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
• (Extract from) The Prelude, by William Wordsworth Power of nature Memory Emotions (Pride, Fear) ‘Straight I unloosened her chain… it was an act of stealth’ ‘proud of his skill’ ‘grim shape towered up between me and the stars’ ‘huge and mighty forms… were a trouble to my dreams.’ ‘my boat went heaving through the water like a swan’
• My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning Power of Humans Memory Emotions (Pride, Anger) ‘since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I’ ‘She had a heart - …to soon made glad’ ‘She liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere’ ‘as if she ranked/My gift of a nine-hundred years-old name/With anybody’s gift’ ‘I gave commands;/then all smiles stopped altogether.’
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Conflict Identity ‘Some one had blundered’ ‘Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die’ ‘Into the jaws of death rode the 500’ / ‘Into the mouth of hell rode the 500’ ‘Cannon to the right of them / Cannon to the left of them / Cannon behind them’ ‘Honour the Light Brigade! / Honour the charge they made! / Noble six hundred!’
• Exposure, by Wilfred Owen Power of Nature Conflict Loss and Absence ‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us…’ ‘Dawn masking … her melancholy army’ ‘Pale Flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces –‘ ‘Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed’ ‘All their eyes are ice / but nothing happens’
• Storm on the Island, by Seamus Heaney Power of Nature Power of Humans Emotions (Fear) ‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat / Sink walls in a rock / roof with good slate’ ‘It pummels your house too’ ‘Exploding comfortably’ ‘We just sit tight while wind dives / and strafes invisibly … space is a salvo’ ‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
• Bayonet Charge, by Ted Hughes Conflict Emotions (Fear) Individual Experiences ‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’ ‘He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm’ ‘In bewilderment … almost stopped-‘ ‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera’ ‘His terror’s touchy dynamite’
• Remains, by Simon Armitage Conflict Memory Emotions (Guilt) Individual Experiences ‘On another occasion, we sent out / to tackle looters raiding a bank’ ‘probably armed, possibly not’ ‘I see every round as it rips through his life-‘ ‘tosses his guts back into his body.’ ‘blood shadow… his bloody life in my bloody hands’
• Poppies, by Jane Weir Conflict Loss and Absence Memory Emotions (Fear) Identity Individual Experiences ‘Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade/of yellow bias binding’ ‘Sellotape bandaged around my hand’ ‘All my worlds/flattened, rolled, turned into felt’ ‘released a song bird from its cage / later a single dove flew from the pear tree’ ‘your playground voice catching on the wind’
• War Photographer, by Carol Ann Duffy Conflict Loss and Absence Emotions (Anger, Guilt) Identity ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’ ‘Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.’ ‘fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat’ ‘A hundred agonies in black and white’ ‘The reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers’
• Tissue, by Imitaz Darkher Power of Nature Power of Humans Identity ‘Paper… could alter things’ ‘pages smoothed and stroked and turned’ ‘Fine slips … might fly our lives like paper kites’ ‘Raise a structure / never meant to last’ ‘turned into your skin’
• The Emigree, by Carol Rumens Loss and Absence Memory Identity Individual Experiences ‘There was once a country / My memory of it is sunlight clear’ ‘but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’ ‘but I can’t get it off my tongue, for it tastes of sunlight ‘my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight’ ‘They accuse of absence, they circle me’
• Checking Out Me History, by John Agard Power of Humans Emotions (Anger) Identity ‘Dem tell me/ what dem want to tell me’ ‘Bandage up me eye… Blind me to me own identity’ ‘Dem tell me about Columbus and 1942/ But what happen to the de Caribs and de Arawaks too’ ‘But now I checking out me own history’ ‘I carving out me identity’
• Kamikaze, by Beatrice Garland Power of Humans Conflict Loss and Absence Memory Identity ‘a shaven head / full of powerful incantations’ ‘little fishing boats / strung out like bunting / on a green blue translucent sea’ ‘the dark prince, muscular, dangerous’ ‘as though he no longer existed’ ‘he must have wondered / which was the better way to die.’