POWER AND CONFLICT ESSAY PLANS

• exposure - reality and effect of conflict

  REMAINS:

  - Both poems present the suffering of soldiers in war

  - Exposure focuses on the condition of the men in war and the deterioration of the soldiers

  - Remains focuses on the aftermath/ post traumatic stress of war/ being a soldier

  - both show how soldiers are left to be vulnerable/ aren't supported.
• emigree - identity


  CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY:

  - identity is disconnected.

  - light imagery - represents positivity and hope.

  - speaker becomes empowered - "carving out me identity," "it hides behind her" she protects her identity.
• checking out me history - identity

  LONDON

  - both explore how identity is oppressed through higher authoritarian powers.

  - both show how it is a relentless cycle [in London, every child born is another victim to this society].

  - both show the people struggle against them, and in COMH, there is a hopeful ending, whereas in London, there is not.
• exposure - nature


  PRELUDE

  - nature is more powerful than men.

  - nature has a long lasting effect on humanity.

  - in exposure, nature is sly and underlying with the harm it does to the soldiers, but in the prelude, it is very obvious.
• storm on the island - nature

  PRELUDE

  - nature is powerful.

  - nature is fearful.

  - nature overcomes arrogant humans.