Poetry of Power and Conflict AQA

• Who wrote "London"?


  William Blake
• What era is Blake from?

  Romantic movement - Individuals can cause change, critical of organised religion, social justice, value individual
• Why is 'chartered' repeated in 'London"?

  To emphasise how London is mapped according to ownership - controlled by wealthy
• Quote involving church in 'London'.

  Every black'ning church appalls.
• Where does the blood run in 'London'? [Quote]


  Runs in blood down palace walls
• Who wrote "Charge of the Light brigade"?

  Lord Tennyson
• What war influenced Tennyson?

  Crimean war
• What is the rhythm in CotLB?


  Dactylic rhythm - echoes horses, unflinching resolve
• What is a refrain?

  A repeated phrase which is changed slightly each time (e.g. 'six hundred')
• What were the three things that the soldiers did needed to do in CotLB? In order


  Not to Make reply, not to reason why, but to do and die
• Volley'd and thunder'd; ................................................ (CotLB)

  Storm'd at with shot and shell
• "Cossack and Russian ........................... " - complete

  Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
• "While ? and ? fell" CotLB

  Horse hero
• Jaws of x, mouth of x. CotLB

  Death hell
• Honour the charge .................. .......................................... ..................... (Last three lines of CotLB)

  They made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!
• Who wrote 'War Photographer'?

  Carol Ann Duffy
• With ............... of .................. set out .......................................... (write out whole quote) WP

  With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
• Religious metaphor in War Photographer

  As though this were a church and he a priest
• What is flesh according to Duffy? (Whole quote)

  All flesh is grass
• What do the fields of rural England not do according to WP?

  To fields which don't explode the feet of running children in a nightmare heat
• WP - how he sought approval .................................

  Without words to do what someone must
• A hundred agonies ........................ WP

  In black-and-white
• From which his editor .......................................... WP

  Will pick out five or six for Sunday's supplement
• Last phrase of WP

  And they do not care
• Who wrote 'Remains'?

  Simon Armitage
• Quote about whether looter is armed in Remains

  "Probably armed. Possibly not."
• "I see every round ................................. - ........................... side. " Remains

  As it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other
• "And he's there on the ground, .................." Remains


  Sort of inside out
• "Tosses his guts ............" Remains

  Back into his body
• "End of story. ..............." Remains


  Except not really
• "His blood-shadow ..............." Remains

  Stays on the street
• "Sleep, and he's ........................ . Dream, and he's ........................... ." Remains

  Probably armed, possibly not torn apart by a dozen rounds
• "He's here in my head ..................... " Remains


  When I close my eyes
• "And the drink .............................. " Remains


  And the drugs won't flush him out
• "His bloody life, ..............." Remains


  In my bloody hands
• Who said "man is born free but everywhere he is in chains"

  Jean - Jacques Rousseau
• What is the meter of CotLB?


  Dactylic dimeter
• What is the "Valley of death" in CotLB a reference to?

  Psalms 23
• What is "Our brains ache" a reference to?

  Ode to a nightingale by John Keats [emphasises a disagreement over purpose of poetry, Keats thought they were beautiful, Owens thought they had to be TRUE]
• How does Tennyson emphasise "Some one had blunder'd"?

  It does not conform to dactylic dimeter