Power and conflict poetry

Created by

Phoebe🫶🏻

Cards (72)

Which quote highlights ozymandias as cruel?
“cold command”
Which quote highlights ozymandias as no longer living or powerful?
“Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things”
Which poems can you compare to Ozymandias?
My last duchess and London
What poems can you compare to London?
My last duchess, checkin’ out me history and the prelude
What poems can you compare to the prelude?
my last duchess, ozymandias and London
What poems can you compare to my last duchess?
Ozymandias, London and the prelude
What poems can you compare to exposure?
storm on the island, charge of the light brigade and bayonet charge
What poems can you compare to charge of the light brigade?
Bayonet charge, remains and exposure
What poems can you compare to storm on the island?
Exposure, the prelude and tissue
What poems can you compare to remains?
Bayonet charge, charge of the light brigade and exposure
What poems can you compare to bayonet charge?
Charge of the light brigade, remains, exposure and poppies
What poems can you compare to war photographer?
Remains, poppies and exposure
What poems can you compare to kamikaze?
Bayonet charge and poppies
What poems can you compare to poppies?
War photographer, bayonet charge, kamikaze and tissue
What poems can you compare to tissue?
Checking out me history, the emigree and London
What poems can you compare to the emigree?
Checking out me history, tissue and london
What poems can you compare to checking out me history?
London, tissue, the emigree and kamikaze
“Into The Valley of death”
What sort of imagery is evoked here?
Biblical imagery
refrain -repeated in next stanza
metaphor -charging straight to their death
“Canon to the right of them”
”canon to the left of them”
”canon in front of them”
what does this highlight?
Anaphora highlights the futility of the attack
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”
what method is used here?
Alliteration of the ‘sh’ shows how noisy the cannons are.
like a storm and imitate explosive sounds of battle
“Not the six hundred”
What other quote links to this?
“Rode the six hundred”
-implies only a few survived
“When can their glory fade?”
what is Tennyson concerned about?
The soldiers glory rather than death
rhetorical question
“Frontiers rise between us, close like waves”
what does this suggest about the poet and her country?
Simile - ‘like waves’ suggests a metaphorical sea flowing between them, separating them permanently
“My memory of it is sunlight - clear”
what sort of imagery is Rumens evoking?
Positive imagery - sunlight has connotations of warmth and clarity
motif of light
“I am branded by an impression of sunlight“
what does this imply about the poet?
‘Branded’ implies the country has left marks on her. Could suggest she has been disfigured by her experiences, or branded as an outsider by society
“The white streets of that city“
”white plane”
what does ‘white’ have connotations of?
Purity, implies she is clinging onto an idealised view of her country.
’that city’ is also nameless ambiguous. The poem speaks for all emigrants.
“Bright, filled paperweight”
what could the paperweight symbolise?
Her memories. Metaphor for the solid ideas (paperweight) in the poets mind that keep flimsy (paper) doubts in check
“Spasms of paper red”
what could the verb ‘spasms’ imply?
The soldiers life was cut short.
connotations of injury and a stabbing pain
’spasms’ of grief are uncontrollable
‘red could symbolise blood
’paper’ shows how disposable the soldiers are viewed
“Blackthorns of your hair”
what methods/connotations are used here?
Religious imagery - ‘blackthorns’ represents Jesus’ crown of thorns
metaphor - the mother believes her son is being metaphorically crucified by leaving for battle
could also symbolise barbed wire used in war to protect the trenches
“Flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
what imagery is used here
Textile imagery - she’s trying to stitch together the gap the war has caused
“Later a single dove flew from the pear tree”
what is the dove a symbol of?
Peace, her son has died and gone to a peaceful world
“Your playground voice”
what does this show about the ending of the poem?
Ending at the memorial relates back to the start.
cyclical structure - death of soldiers is never ending
“With trembling oars I turned”
how is the narrator feeling?
He is stunned and dazed that he feels he must swim away, it’s taking a toll
personification and hypallage - it is the narrator who manipulates the oars that trembles, not the oars itself
alliteration - t’s sound like stuttering
“A huge peak, black and huge”
what methods are used to describe how he’s feeling (narrator)?
Repetition - ‘huge’ shows the impact of the massive peak on his state of mind, disorientated
plosive p’s + b’s - suggest heaviness and dominance
semantic field - power and dominance
“Proud of his skill”
what does this suggest about the narrator?
He is arrogant over his own ability
irony - he is later belittled and dwarfed by nature
adjective - ‘proud’ indicating his egotism
“I unloosed her chain”
what could this imply about the narrator and the boat?
Could indicate a bond or sense of familiarity between the man and boat
personification - ‘her’
“No pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky”
How does wordsworth end the poem?
He ends the poem negatively, these things once described so positively are now daunting
cyclic structure
“His editor will pick out five or six for Sundays supplement”
who is Duffy criticising?
Western attitudes to wars
why are they only considered a supplement?
clearly we are desensitised and insensitive towards the suffering of those at war
“A hundred agonies“
what method is used here?
Hyperbole. Shows the number of deaths and injuries are incomprehensible
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
What can be said about ‘children’ and ‘heat’?
Sharp contrast
twisted parallelism reflects to the use of napalm strikes in Vietnam