Conflict Poetry

• "Later a single dove flew from the pear tree" - Poppies, Jane Weir


  Symbolism, The dove represents peace, Also the dead son could've been reincarnated into the dove
• “The dove pulled freely against the sky”- Poppies, Jane Weir


  Could represent the mother letting go of her son
• “The world overflowing like a treasure chest”- Poppies, Jane Weir


  Simile, the world holds many hidden gems
• “Crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding”- Poppies, Jane Weir


  Enjambment, blockades used in war, spasm happens when you die
• “Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”- COTLB, Alfred, Lordy Tennyson


  Repetition, sets a fast pace, like galloping horses
• “Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell”- COTLB, Alfred, Lord Tennyson


  Metaphor, being killed like prey, consumed, inescapable brutal death
• “Flash’d all their sabres bare”- COTLB, Alfred, Lord Tennyson


  Bearing sabres like animals, savage, bloodthirsty, ferocious, animalistic battle
• “O the wild charge they made!”- COTLB, Alfred, Lord Tennyson


  Semantic field of animals, fight for survival, survival of the fittest
• "I sunned it with smiles, and soft deceitful wiles."- A Poison Tree, William Blake


  Extended metaphor that compares emotions to a tree, supressing your emotions will only make them grow, manipulation
• "Till it bore an apple bright"- A Poison Tree, William Blake


  Idea of religion, links to Adam and Eve with the forbidden apple
• "In the morning glad I see, My foe outstrech'd beneath the tree."- A Poison Tree, William Blake

  The anger has grown into hatred and caused the person to commit murder
• "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold"- The destruction of Sennacherib, Lord Byron


  Simile, compares the Assyrian to wolves, suggests they are savage, bloodthirsty predators
• "And the sheen of their spears was like the stars on the sea"- The destruction of Sennacherib, Lord Byron


  Simile, infers there is a large number of them, however it is mesmerising
• "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast"- The destruction of Sennacherib, Lord Byron


  Metaphor, the blast triggered their deaths, nobody will make it out alive
• "Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!"- The destruction of Sennacherib, Lord Byron


  Simile, shows the power of god as he only glanced at them
• "Small circles glittering idly in the moon"- Extract from the prelude, William Wordsworth


  Imagery, Repetition of 'L' sound imitates the gentle waves, tranquillity and peace
• "The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge"- Extract from the prelude, William Wordsworth


  Volta (Change in tone), repetition of 'huge' suggests a loss for words and emphasises the size, threatening
• "As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head"- Extract from the prelude, William Wordsworth


  Enjambment, Personification, a display of dominance
• "To lead a shameless shameful life."- Cousin Kate, Christina Rossetti


  Oxymoron, the Lord is not shamed for his actions, however she is shamed for being pregnant out of wedlock
• "He wore me like a golden knot, he changed me like a glove"- Cousin Kate, Christina Rossetti


  Simile, she has been used and discarded, now nobody else will want her
• "Your love was writ in sand."- Cousin Kate, Christina Rossetti


  Metaphor, a common saying, her love is temporary
• "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"- Exposure, Wilfred Owen


  Personification, the weather is cruel, suffering
• "Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence, less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow"- Exposure, Wilfred Owen


  Sibilance, reflects the sound of the wind, it is likely they will die by frostbite rather than by bullet
• "But nothing happens"- Exposure, Wilfred Owen


  Repetition, constantly waiting, it feels like forever
• "On us the doors are closed"- Exposure, Wilfred Owen


  They won't return home, nobody will come to help them
• "As I stood in a hot, white Room at the window watching"- Catrin, Gillian Clarke


  Enjambment, Alliteration, sterile, new beginning, innocence
• "I can remember you, child"- Catrin, Gillian Clarke

  Repetition, the use of 'I' makes it seem like a personal story, and the use of 'child' suggests that other mothers can relate to it
• "Our first fierce confrontation, the tight red rope of love"- Catrin, Gillian Clarke


  Alliteration, Metaphor, suggests that they are restricted by the relationship
• "In the glass tank clouded with feelings"- Catrin, Gillian Clarke


  Trapped raising a child, hate clouds love
• "The reassurance of the frame is flexible"- War photographer, Carole Satyamurti


  Alliteration, the frame usually captures the good
• "Instinct prevailing, she dropped her burden and, mouth too small for her dark scream"- War Photographer


  Metaphor, loss of innocence, fight for survival
• "But hell, like heaven, is untidy, its boundaries arbitrary as a blood stain on a wall"- War Photographer

  Simile, arbitrary means random, stains, nothing is perfect
• "Itself- an asterisk on the map. This hyphenated line, a burst of rapid fire"- Belfast confetti


  Imagery, Semantic field of punctuation, they look like a cartoon explosion and bullets
• "I know this labyrinth so well" "Why can't I escape?"- War Photographer


  Feels trapped, confused, frustrated
• "What is... My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks."- Belfast Confetti


  Enjambment, Fusillade means rapid fire of bullets
• "Is it because my hands are stained with toil? Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil?"- The class game

  Rhyming couplet, comparing herself to others, toil because they've had a harder life
• "Why do you car what class I'm from? Does it stick in your gullet like a sour plum?"- The class game

  Interrogating them, standing up for herself, belittling the others
• "Cos we live in a corpy, not like some"- The class game


  Stereotypical language of the lower class, corpy is a council house
• "Yu put me in a pigeon hole, but I am versatile"- No problem


  Stereotypes often put people in small boxes, shows he is used to this discrimination
• "I am not de problem"- No problem


  Repetition, trying to teach others, potentially trying to convince himself that he isn't the problem