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Created by Andrew Stonehouse
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Question | Answer |
Storm on the Island | Seamus Heaney |
Storm on the Island investigates themes such as .... and...... It describes ..... and uses we, the first person plural to describe the communal experience. "" One ...., compact like the '' houses | humans vs nature fear a community preparing for a storm "we are prepared" stanza "squat" |
There is a .... field of .... using words like "" and "" Similes such as "" personify the storm | semantic war bombarded exploding "spits like a tame cat turned savage" |
The attitudes in the poem change from .... , .... and then ..... ..... structure shows repeated relentlessness of storm "" 'Stormont' relates to recent .... in Ireland | security, fear, helplessness Circular "We are prepared....strange it is a huge nothing that we fear" violence |
Compare with the fear of nature in | Exposure |
Tissue | Imtiaz Dharker |
There is ..... therefore focusing on general humanity. ... of rhythm and rhyme gives poet ..... The poem is built up in ..... like life, stanza by stanza. It refuses a ..... interpretation. Themes include.... | No specific speaker lack freedom layers simple power of humans vs nature and identity |
Sunlight is shown as a positive force that can "" The delicacy of paper is an ...... for human life. "turned into ...." | "shine through borderlines" extended metaphor your skin" |
The poem has 3 parts, history,experiences and life. The final line "" questions the reader Repetition of "" shows the never ending control of paper | "turned into your skin" "smooth stroked and turned" |
Compare with ... or ..... | Checking out me History |
Bayonet Charge | Ted Hughes-father in WW1, Inspired by WOwen |
Explores the thought of .... showing .... and the .... of conflict Uses 'he' therefore.... Enjambment, caesura, and uneven lines represent the soldier stumbling | soldier going over the top fear effects and reality ambiguous |
Simile "" showing how he finds war difficult to describe and has lost rational thought "etcetera" | "like a man who has jumped up in the dark listening between his footfall for the reason of his still running" |
Starts in the middle of the action Time stops in second stanza Gives up in final stanza. Attitude of .... and .... | terror and confusion |
Compare with | Charge of the Light Brigade |
Remains | Simon Armitage |
Real story of British soldier in .... and shows his PTSD. Sounds like a confession due to... Uses 'we' before changing to 'I' as the guilt increases. | Iraq ...no constraints on the rhythm or rhyme and use of caesura and enjambment |
Juxtaposition of : Graphic Imagery "" reminds reader of ... of war And Casual Language so desensitized feelings of man, trying to hide feelings. | tosses his guts back into his body horror |
Repetition shows how the PTSD.... "" Turns from anecdote to... Turning point when.... | is always there "dug in behind enemy lines" confession he returns home |
Compare with | War Photographer Feelings of guilt, memory and conflict |
War Photographer | Carol Ann Duffy |
Regular rhyme and stanza length like.... Follows the photos journey. | ...the photographers organised work, and the care he takes, applying structure to chaos. |
Emotive imagery. "a strangers features...." | "....faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost" |
Circular Structure shows how.... Contrasts Rural England and ...., Widows tears and ....... . Feelings of .... | nothing changes and his work doesn't have a impact War Zones Readers prick pain, detachment, anger |
Compare with .... | Remains |
Emigree | Carol Rumens |
1st Person. .... therefore.... No rhythm or rhyme represents... | vague relates to many people lack of continuity in her life |
Language about light and dark. Describes old city as "" and new city accuses her of "". Shows how she doesn't fit in. Personification shows how memories of her city are like a friend. | "sunlight clear" "being dark" "takes me dancing" |
1+2 Have enjambment 3 Doesn't 4 is longer | Freedom/nostalgia No freedom in new city or old city-threatened Doesn't want her old city to leave her |
Compare with | London-Place |
Ozymandias | Percy Shelley didn't like oppression and absolute power |
Second hand account.... One stanza.... About Ramses II | distances reader from events Short like pharaohs rein |
Pharaohs uses powerful and aggressive language "" but it is ironic because "". His "" | "king of kings, look on my word ye mighty and despair" "nothing beside remains" "shattered visage" |
Attitudes of .... and .... Describes small details at beginning, which is... | pride and arrogance contrasted later with the large empty desert. |
Compare with | My Last Duchess - power and pride |
London | William Blake - wanted equality |
Describes miserable walk through London.... Dramatic Monologue, first person narrative makes it .... and .... Rhyme scheme shows... | not helped by people in power dramatic and personal endless suffering of people in city |
Uses senses immersing the reader. Emotive language to try and gain support for his beliefs. "" oxymoron shows how even everything is effected. Babies are born into a nasty world. Marriage leads to children, life union, but prostitutes don't have that | the youthful harlots curse blights with plague the marriage hearse |
Beginning focuses on people affected, 3rd focuses on organisations causing problems. Ends with lost innocence of babies leaving impression on reader. Repeats "every" suggesting.... | ....no one is unaffected |
Compare with | Emigree-Experiences, Anger, lack of hope |
Poppies | Jane Weir |
1s person narrative about a son leaving to war.... No regular rhythm or rhyme show how her life is now jumbled, and she is reliving thoughts and memories. Long sentences and enjambment.... Caesura is used when she tries .... | ambiguous show how she is lost in thought to hold herself together. |
Uses senses wanting son to be physically there Domestic imagery"" juxtaposed with war imagery "" | "my stomach busy making tucks, darts and pleats" "bandaged, spasms of red, reinforcements" |
Follows events chronologically however..... feelings of .... | memories are sprinkled occasionally, showing how he is on her mind loss, and fear |
Compare with pride in | Kamikaze |
Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Lord Tennyson About Crimean War. Cavalry sent into valley surrounded by Russians. Generals paid way to top. Public were unhappy. As Poet Laureate had to write about it. Didn't like rich people |
.... person. Chronological Story. Broken rhythm sounds like....and .... men | 3rd horses hooves and falling men |
Uses double meaning to show Alfred's hatred of power and the stupid rich, but also the admiration of the soldiers. "ered" "" | "someone had blundered all the world wondered" |
Repetition at end of paragraph of "" shows vast number of people and casualties. Foreshadowing "" shows how generals should've known better Attitudes of .... and .... | "into the valley of death, rode the six hundred" admiration and patriotism |
Compare with .. or... | bayonet charge-charges to death |
Prelude | William Wordsworth- Grew up in Lake District. Romantic Poet |
Personal experience. Regular rhythm sounds like.... and lack of .... adds.... Part of unfinished collection of poems about his life. 1 stanza and enjambment is ...... No breaks | speech rhyme serious tone overwhelming |
Exteneded metaphor for ... control over .... Uses weaker language, repeating words"" showing authors... and ... | natures control over man "huge peak, black and huge" shock and fear |
Starts ..... then becomes .... and upon ..... we learn how as a young man ..... "" | confident fearful reflection he thought he knew everything and has much to learn "trouble to my dreams" |
Compare with Similar themes of ... | Kamikaze nature and fear turning around |
Kamikaze | Beatrice Garland |
About ......who turned around. .... when he returns home due to cultural beliefs of .... 3rd person distances reader from pilot. Direct speech from daughter ..... Absence of pilots voice... | Japanese Kamikaze pilot shunned dying for your country creates empathy shows how he no longer speaks |
Power of nature shown through ..... "" | detailed descriptions that triggered him to turn around " green blue translucent sea" |
Chronological order shows changes from .... to ... and .... 1 sentence for man's flight. Final sentence leaves reader reflecting "" | patriotism to shame and regret "which was the better way to die" |
Compare with | Prelude. Power of nature, fear, turning around |
Checking out me History | John Agard- Black Caribbean raised in England Anger at the emission of black people from history by the British Empire who educated everyone with their own history. |
Uses ... and .... creating a Caribean accent and not conforming to the rules of English language. 1st person and refers to ""distancing the author from the people trying to control him and villainising them | enjambment and phonetic spelling "dem" |
metaphors of vision shows how black history was hidden "" "" metaphor of "carving" to show the process of finding himself and his history. Painful but unchangeable. | "bandage up my eye"-pirate "blind me to my own identity" |
Meant to be heard, and .... used to make it memorable so ideas spread. Juxtaposes white people and nursery rhymes.... | repetition showing how history was picked and choose turning it into no more than a fairy tale |
Compare with | Tissue Identity, control |
My Last Duchess | Robert Browning |
About .... Dramatic monologue.. Extract from a conversation, however other person doesn't talk. Rhyming couplets show Duke's.... Enjambment shows.... | Duke Alfonso of Ferrera desire for control gets carried away within own voice. |
Uses a .......tone "" | sinister and powerful "I gave commands then all smiles stopped together." |
Foreshadowing "" wife's painting controls him , even though he... Feelings of ... ,and .... We find out at the end .... | "looking as if she were alive" killed her and hides her away pride and jealousy he is arranging his next marriage |
Compare with.... | Ozymandias -Power and pride |
Exposure | Wilfred Owen-WW1 Soldier |
Present tense, 1st person plural shows collective experience, Regular rhyme scheme is .... and....also shown by half lines and rhymes. Expecting but no delivery. | anticlimactic and shows monotonous nature of war "but nothing happens" |
Personifies nature making it sound like the enemy " Sibilance " | "merciless iced winds that knife us" "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence" |
Circular structure shows Rhetorical questions answer themselves at the end of each stanza"" | how everyone experiences the monotonous nature of trench warfare. "what are we doing here" |
Compare with fear and nature in | Storm on the Island |
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