Poem Summaries

• Ozymanpidas


  A traveller discovers a smashed statue of a once great Egyptian king.
• London

  Realistic picture of the brutal society and criticise the authorities in 18th century England for the exploitation of the poor
• Extract from the prelude

  A nighttime journey in his boat which begins positive but he is overcome with awe at the enormous mountain
• My last duchess


  A duke talking about his last wife and how she was easily impressed by everything.
• The charge of the light brigade

  Celebrated the heroism of those who died in battle of balaclava in the Crimean war due to military error of judgement
• Exposure


  The horrors of the trench life in WW1 and the weather conditions they suffered
• Storm on the island 


  A strong storm on an exposed island to highlight the power of nature
• Bayonet charge

  The perspective of a soldier attacking an enemy position in WW1 and uestions whether theres any point of war
• Remains

  A soldier shot a looter they thought was armed robbing a bank and the guilt haunts him
• Poppies

  A mothers experience of her son going to war and she doesn’t know if he’s dead yet
• War photographer

  The difficulties of the profession ( how they just have to watch without being able to help) and how people didn’t under the severity
• Tissue

  Uses an extended metaphor of paper to explore ideas about identity and also the strengths and weaknesses of humans
• The emigree 


  Refugees memories of her exiled homeland
• Check out me history


  protests about the way black people have been written in history