Power And Conflict Poems

• ozymandias quotes


  -"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  
  

  - sneer of cold command

  
  

  - Half sunk, a shattered visage lies whose frown and wrinkled lip

  
  

  - Boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretched far away
• ozymandias structure


  sonnet = a love poem.... shows love for himself

  
  

  the different forms of sonnet (Petrarchan, Shakespearean, another one with a different rhyme scheme) show how nothing lasts forever, not even the form
• london quotes


  - i wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow

  
  

  - Marks in every face i meet. Marks of weakness, Marks of woe

  
  

  - The hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls

  
  

  - blights with plagues the marriage hearse
• london structure


  quatrains = 4 lines each..... strict structure resembles the strict ownership over the town

  + ABAB rhyme scheme

  cyclical structure
• Extract from The Prelude Quotes


  - One summer evening (led by her)

  
  

  - It was an act if stealth and troubled pleasure

  
  

  - a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head

  
  

  -huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day, and were a trouble to my dreams
• Extract from Thr Prelude Quotes

  Epic poem

  Blank verse

  Iambic Pentameter- boat rowing

  overwhelmed by the length of the poem
• My last Dutchess Quotes

  - None puts by the curtain i have drawn for you but I

  
  

  - Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse, thought a rarity which Clause of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me

  
  

  - Frà Pandolf('s hands) (by design)

  
  

  - Half-flush that dies along her throat
• My Last Dutchess Structure


  Dramatic monologue

  Iambic pentameter + Rhyming couplets show the tight control of the Duke
• The Charge Of The Light Brigade Quotes

  - Someone had blunder'd

  
  

  - Into the valley of Death

  
  

  - While all the world wandered

  
  

  - Theirs but to do and die
• The Charge Of The Light Brigade Structure

  Ballad = remembering stories

  Dactylic Dimeter presents the sounds of horses hooves, it is broken with the "someone had blunder'd quote"
• Exposure Quotes


  Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds thst knife us. waried, we keep awake because the night is silent

  
  

  - Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens

  
  

  - Dawn massing in the east her melancholy arm Attacks once more in ranks in shivering ranks of grey but nothing happens

  
  

  - So we drowse, sun dozed, littered sith blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses - is it that we are dying?
• Exposure Structure


  line 1= blunt and powerful sentence

  followed by emotive vocabulary

  ends with an anticlimax.

  ABBAC rhyming structure presents how building momentum of battle never gets you anywhere

  cyclical structure shows how battle never gets anywhere
• Storm On The Island Quotes

  -Storm On The Island (Stormont, The Island)

  
  

  - Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. this wizened earth has never troubled us

  
  

  - so that you listen to the thing you fear, forgetting that it pummels your house too

  
  

  - Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
• Storm On The Island Structure

  could be a dramatic monologue.

  (a poem about someone talking to a silent listener)

  lack of voice shows how nature is indifferent

  extended metaphor
• Bayonet Charge Quotes


  - Suddenly he awoke and was running- raw. In raw seamed hot Khaki, his sweat heavy

  
  

  - Bullets smacking the belly out of the air- he lugged his rife numb as a smashed arm.

  
  

  - in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations. Was he the hand pointing that second?

  
  

  -king, honor, dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries
• Remains Quotes


  - on another occasion we got sent out

  
  

  - I see every round as it rips through his life

  
  

  - probably armed, possibly not (repeated)

  
  

  - end of story, except not really, his blood shadow stays on the street, and lit on patrol and out on patrol i walk over it week after week
• Remains Structure


  cyclical structure- inescapable

  monologue

  media res
• Poppies Quotes


  - Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer.

  
  

  - Blackthorns of your hair. All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt

  
  

  - After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, released a songbird from its cage

  
  

  - The dove pulled freely against the sky an ornamental stitch, i listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind
• Poppies Structure


  dramatic monologue +

  free verse +

  different stanza lengths +

  enjambment +

  = chaotic structure + chaotic impact of conflict
• War Photographer Quotes


  - in his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

  
  

  - A priest preparing to intone a mass. graves Belfast. Beirut. Phnom. Penh. all flesh is grass

  
  

  - The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers

  
  

  - From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care

  
  

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• Tissue Quotes


  - Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things

  - The back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories

  
  

  - Maps too. the sun shines through their borderlines

  
  

  - With living tissue... Thinned to be transparent, turned into your skin
• Tissue Structure


  extended metaphor- tissue = human tissue

  ambiguous

  free verse

  4 lines oer stanza but 3 lines for last stanza
• The Emigreè


  - there once was a country... i left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear

  
  

  - it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight

  
  

  - the childs vocabulary i carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar

  
  

  - my city hides behind me. they mutter death and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

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• Checking Out Me History Structure

  Oral Poetry

  repetition "dem tell me"

  phonetic spelling

  strong rhythm
• Kamikaze Quotes


  - Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword and enough fuel for a one way journey into history

  
  

  - like a huge flag waved first ine way, then the others in a figure if eight

  
  

  - the loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

  
  

  - and sometimes she said,he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
• Kamikaze Structure


  six line stanzas

  free verse

  enjambment