Remains by Simon Armitage Exposure by Wilfred Owen Poppies by Jane Weir

Power: Military, Humans Conflict: Modern, Military, Mental Power: Nature Conflict: Reality of Conflict, Mental, Effects Power: Emotions, Memories Conflict: Effects
Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context
-Written to coincide with a TV documentary about -“These are poems of survivors – the damaged, -Speaker describes war as a battle against the weather -Written in 1917 before Owen went on to win the -A modern poem that offers an alternative -Set around the time of the Iraq and Afghan wars, but
those returning from war with PTSD. Based on exhausted men who return from war in body but and conditions. Military Cross for bravery, and was then killed in battle interpretation of bravery in conflict: it does not focus the conflict is deliberately ambiguous to give the poem
true story of Guardsman Tromans, who fought in never, wholly, in mind.” Simon Armitage -Conflicting images of cold and warm reflect the in 1918: the poem has authenticity as it is written by on a soldier in battle but on the mother who is left a timeless relevance to all mothers and families.
Iraq in 2003. -Poem coincided with increased awareness of PTSD delusional mind of a man dying from hypothermia. an actual soldier. behind and must cope with his death. -There are hints of a critical tone; about how soldiers
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHWqppktFo) amongst the military, and aroused sympathy amongst -Owen wanted to draw attention to the suffering, - Of his work, Owen said: “My theme is war and the -The narration covers her visit to a war memorial, can be overcome by the glamour or the military: “a
-Speaker describes shooting a looter dead in Iraq and the public – many of whom were opposed to the war. monotony and futility of war. pity of war”. interspersed with images of the soldier’s childhood blockade of yellow bias” and “intoxicated”.
how it has affected him. -Despite highlighting the tragedy of war and mistakes and his departure for war.
-Shows the reader that mental suffering can persist of senior commanders, he had a deep sense of duty:
long after physical conflict is over. “not loath, we lie out here” shows that he was not
bitter about his suffering.
Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure
-“Remains” - the images and suffering remain. -Monologue, told in the present tense to convey a -“Our brains ache” physical (cold) suffering and mental -Contrast of Cold-Warm-Cold imagery coveys Suffering- -Contrasting semantic fields of home/childhood (“cat -This is an Elegy, a poem of mourning.
-“Legs it up the road” - colloquial language = authentic flashback (a symptom of PTSD). (PTSD or shell shock) suffering. Delusions-Death of the hypothermic soldier. hairs”, “play at being Eskimos”, “bedroom”) with -No rhyme scheme makes it melancholic and adds a
voice -First four stanzas are set in Iraq; last three are at - Weather is the enemy. -Repetition of “but nothing happens” creates cyclical war/injury (“blockade”, bandaged”, “reinforcements”) sense of realism
-“Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry” – home, showing the aftermath. -“the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” – structure implying never ending suffering -Aural (sound) imagery: “All my words -Enjambment gives it an anecdotal tone.
reduction of humanity to waste or cattle -Enjambment between lines and stanzas conveys his personification (cruel and murderous wind); sibilance -Rhyme scheme ABBA emphasises the monotony. flattened, rolled, turned into felt” shows pain and -Nearly half the lines have caesura – she is trying to
-“he’s here in my head when I close my eyes / dug in conversational tone and gives it a fast pace, especially (cutting/slicing sound of wind); ellipsis (never-ending). -Pararhymes (half rhymes) (“nervous / knife us”) only inability to speak, and “I listened, hoping to hear hold it together, but can’t speak fluently as she is
behind enemy lines” – metaphor for a war in his head; when conveying the horror of the killing -Repetition of pronouns ‘we’ and ‘our’ – conveys barely hold the poem together, like the men. your playground voice catching on the wind” shows breaking inside.
the PTSD is entrenched. -Repetition of ‘Probably armed, Possibly not” conveys togetherness and collective suffering of soldiers. longing for dead son.
-“his bloody life in my bloody hands” – alludes to guilt and bitterness. -“I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front
Macbeth: Macbeth the warrior with PTSD and Lady door”: different perspective of bravery in conflict.
Macbeth’s bloody hands and guilt.

Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes War Photographer
Power: Military, Hierarchical Conflict: Military, Effects, Glory Power: Emotions Conflict: Effects, Reality, Power: Memories Conflict: Mental, Reality,
Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context
- Published in a newspaper, six weeks after a -As Poet Laureate, he had a responsibility to inspire the -Describes the terrifying experience of ‘going over the -Published in 1957, but most-likely set in World War 1. -Tells the story of a war photographer developing -Like Tennyson and Ted Hughes, Duffy was the Poet
disastrous battle against the Russians in the nation and portray the war in a positive light: top’: fixing bayonets (long knives) to the end of rifles -Hughes’ father had survived the battle of Gallipoli in photos at home in England: as a photo develops he Laureate.
unpopular Crimean War propaganda. and leaving a trench to charge directly at the enemy. World War 1, and so he may have wished to draw begins to remember the horrors of war – painting a -Duffy was inspired to write this poem by her
-Describes a cavalry charge against Russians who shoot -Although Tennyson glorifies the soldiers who took -Steps inside the body and mind of the speaker to attention to the hardships of trench warfare. contrast to the safety of his dark room. friendship with a war photographer, Don McCullin
at the lightly-armed British with cannon from three part, he also draws attention to the fact that a show how this act transforms a soldier from a living -He draws a contrast between the idealism of -He appears to be returning to a warzone at the end of (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8QgGgUTBM). She
sides of a long valley. commander had made a mistake: “Someone had thinking person into a dangerous weapon of war. patriotism and the reality of fighting and killing. (“King, the poem. was intrigued by the challenge faced by these people
-Of the 600 hundred who started the charge, over half blunder’d”. -Hughes dramatises the struggle between a man's honour, human dignity, etcetera”) -Duffy conveys both the brutality of war and the whose job requires them to record terrible, horrific
were killed, injured or taken prisoner. -This was a controversial point to make in Victorian thoughts and actions. indifference of those who might view the photos in events without being able to directly help their
-It is a celebration of the men’s courage and devotion times when blind devotion to power was expected. newspapers and magazines: those who live in comfort subjects.
to their country, symbols of the might of the British and are unaffected by war.
Empire.
Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure
-“Into the valley of Death”: this Biblical imagery -This is a ballad, a form of poetry to remember “The patriotic tear that brimmed in his eye Sweating -The poem starts ‘in medias res’: in the middle of the “All flesh is grass”: Biblical reference that means all -Enjambment – reinforces the sense that the world is
portrays war as a supremely powerful, or even historical events like molten iron”: his sense of duty (tear) has now action, to convey shock and pace. human life is temporary – we all die eventually. out of order and confused.
spiritual, experience. -6 verses, each representing 100 men who took part. turned into the hot sweat of fear and pain. -Enjambment maintains the momentum of the charge. “He has a job to do”: like a soldier, the photographer -Rhyme reinforces the idea that he is trying to bring
-“jaws of Death” and “mouth of Hell”: presents war as -First stanza tightly structured, mirroring the cavalry “cold clockwork of the stars and nations”: the soldiers -Time stands still in the second stanza to convey the has a sense of duty. order to a chaotic world – to create an understanding.
an animal that consumes its victims. formation. Structure becomes awkward to reflect the are part of a cold and uncaring machine of war. soldier’s bewilderment and reflective thoughts. “running children in a nightmare heat”: emotive -Contrasts: imagery of rural England and nightmare
-“Honour the Light Brigade/Noble six hundred”: chaos of battle and the fewer men returning alive. “his foot hung like statuary in midstride.”: he is frozen -Contrasts the visual and aural imagery of battle with imagery with connotations of hell. war zones.
language glorifies the soldiers, even in death. The ‘six -Repetition of ‘the six hundred’ at the end of each with fear/bewilderment. The caesura (full stop) jolts the internal thoughts of the soldier = adds to the “blood stained into a foreign dust”: lasting impact of -Third stanza: A specific image – and a memory –
hundred’ become a celebrated and prestigious group. stanza (epistrophe) emphasises huge loss. him back to reality. confusion. war – links to Remains and ‘blood shadow’. appears before him.
-“shot and shell”: sibilance recreates sounds of battle. “he earns a living and they do not care”: ‘they’ is
ambiguous – it could refer to readers or the wider
world.
Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland The Emigree by Carol Rumens Checking Out Me History by John Agard
Power: Memory, Nature Conflict: Family, Relationships, Effects Power: Memories, Identity Conflict: Military, Identity, Power: Identity, Protest, Individual Conflict: Identity
Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content , Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context
-In World War 2, Japanese Kamikaze pilots would fly - Despite the certainty of death, it was regarded as a -‘Emigree’ – a female who is forced to leave their -Emigree was published in 1993. The home country of -Represents the voice of a black man who is frustrated -John Agard was born in the Caribbean in 1949 and
manned missiles into targets such as ships. great honour to be selected for a Kamikaze mission county for political or social reasons. the speaker is not revealed – this ambiguity gives the by the Eurocentric history curriculum in the UK – which moved to the UK in the 1970s.
-This poem explores a kamikaze pilot’s journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3qoNE4XwhM) -The speaker describes her memories of a home city poem a timeless relevance. pays little attention to the black history. -His poetry often challenges racism and attitudes
towards battle, his decision to return, and how he is -Cowardice or surrender was a great shame in wartime that she was forced to flee. The city is now “sick with -Increasingly relevant to many people in current world -Black history is quoted to emphasise its separateness towards race.
shunned when he returns home. Japan. tyrants”. climate and to stress its importance. -This poem may, to some extent, have achieved its
-As he looks down at the sea, the beauty of nature and -To surrender meant shame for you and your family, -Despite the cities problems, her positive memories of purpose: in 2016, a statue was erected in London in
memories of childhood make him decide to turn back. and rejection by society: “he must have wondered the place cannot be extinguished. honour of Mary Seacole, one of the subjects of the
which had been the better way to die”. poem.
Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure Language Form
-The Japanese word ‘kamikaze’ means ‘divine wind’ or -Narrative and speaker is third person, representing -“I left it as a child”: ambiguous meaning – either she -First person. -Imagery of fire and light used in all three stanzas -Dramatic monologue, with a dual structure.
‘heavenly wind’, and has its origin in a heaven-sent the distance between her and her father, and his left when she was a child or the city was a child (it was -The last line of each stanza is the same (epistrophe): regarding black historic figures: “Toussaint de - Graphology: Stanzas concerning Eurocentric history
storm that scattered an invading fleet in 1250. rejection by society. vulnerable and she feels a responsibility towards it). “sunlight”: reinforces the overriding positivity of the beacon”, “Fire-woman”, “yellow sunrise”. (normal font) are interspersed with stanzas on black
-“dark shoals of fish flashing silver”: image links to a -The first five stanzas are ordered (whilst he is flying on -“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”: imagery city and of the poem. -Uses non-standard phonetic spelling (“Dem tell me history (in italics to represent separateness and
Samurai sword – conveys the conflict between his love his set mission). of light - it will stay with her forever. -The first two stanzas have lots of enjambment – wha dem want”, to represent his own powerful rebellion).
for nature/life and his sense of duty. Also has sibilance. -Only full stop is at the end of Stanza Five: he has made -Personification of the city: “I comb its hair and love conveys freedom. The final stanza has lots of full-stops accent and mixes Caribbean Creole dialect with - Black history sections arranged as serious lessons to
- “they treated him as though he no longer existed”: his decision to turn back. its shining eyes” (she has a maternal love for the city) – conveys that fact that she is now trapped. standard English. be learned; traditional history as nursery rhymes,
cruel irony – he chose to live but now must live as -The final two are in italics and have longer line to and “My city takes me dancing” (it is romantic and -“I carving out me identity”: metaphor for the painful mixed with fairytales (mocking of traditional history).
though he is dead. represent the fallout of his decision: his life has shifted passionate lover) struggle to be heard, and to find his identity. - The lack of punctuation, the stanzas in free verse, the
-“was no longer the father we loved”: the pilot was and will no longer be the same. -“My city hides behind me”: it is vulnerable and – irregular rhyme scheme and the use of Creole could
forever affected by his decision. -Direct speech (“My mother never spoke again”) gives despite the fact that she had to flee – she is strong. represent the narrator’s rejection of the rules.
the poem a personal tone. -Semantic field of conflict: “Tyrant, tanks, frontiers” -Repetition of “Dem tell me”: frustration.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker
Power: Humans, Nature, Loss of Power, Hierarchical Conflict: Power: Status, Identity, Males, Control Conflict: Relationships, Hierarchy Power: Power of Nature, Identity Conflict:
Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context
-The narrator meets a traveller who tells him about a -Shelley was a poet of the ‘Romantic period’ (late -The Duke is showing a visitor around his large art -Browning was a British poet, and lived in Italy. The -Two different meanings of ‘Tissue’ are explored: -Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan and grew up in
decayed stature that he saw in a desert. 1700s and early 1800s). Romantic poets were collection and proudly points out a portrait of his last poem was published in 1842. firstly, the various pieces of paper that control our Glasgow.
-The statue was of a long forgotten ancient King: the interested in emotion and the power of nature. wife, who is now dead. He reveals that he was -Browning may have been inspired by the story of an lives (holy books, maps, grocery receipts); secondly, -This particular poem also questions how well we
arrogant Ozymandias, ‘king of kings.’ -Shelley also disliked the concept of a monarchy and annoyed by her over-friendly and flirtatious behaviour. Italian Duke (Duke of Ferrara): his wife died in the tissue of a human body. understand ourselves and the fragility of humanity.
-The poem is ironic and one big metaphor: Human the oppression of ordinary people. -He can finally control her by objectifying her and suspicious circumstances and it was rumoured that she -The poet explores the paradox that although paper is
power is only temporary – the statue now lays -He had been inspired by the French revolution – when showing her portrait to visitors when he chooses. had been poisoned. ‘Ferrara’ is the sub-title of the fragile, temporary and ultimately not important, we
crumbled in the sand, and even the most powerful the French monarchy was overthrown. - He is now alone as a result of his need for control. poem. allow it to control our lives.
human creations cannot resist the power of nature. -The visitor has come to arrange the Duke’s next -Also, although human life is much more precious, it is
marriage, and the Duke’s story is a subtle warning also fragile and temporary.
about how he expects his next wife to behave.
Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure
-‘sneer of cold command’: the king was arrogant, this -A sonnet (14 lines) but with an unconventional -‘Looking as if she was alive’: sets a sinister tone. -Dramatic Monologue, in iambic pentameter. -Semantic field of light: (‘Paper that lets light shine -The short stanzas create many layers, which is a key
has been recognised by the sculptor, the traveller and structure… the structure is normal until a turning point -‘Will’t please you sit and look at her?’ rhetorical -It is a speech, pretending to be a conversation – he through’, ‘The sun shines through their borderlines’, theme of the poem (layers of paper and the creation of
then the narrator. (a volta) at Line 9 (..these words appear). This reflects question to his visitor shows obsession with power. doesn’t allow the other person to speak! ‘let the daylight break through capitals and human life through layers)
-‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.’: ‘Look’ = how human structures can be destroyed or decay. -‘she liked whate’er / She looked on, and her looks -Enjambment: rambling tone, he’s getting carried away monoliths’) emphasises that light is central to life, a -The lack of rhythm or rhyme creates an effect of
imperative highlights commanding tone; -The iambic pentameter rhyme scheme is also went everywhere.’: hints that his wife was a flirt. with his anger. He is a little unstable. positive and powerful force that can break through freedom and openness.
ironic – he is telling other ‘mighty’ kings to admire the disrupted or ‘decayed’. -‘as if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred-years- -Heavy use of caesura (commas and dashes): stuttering ‘tissue’ and even monoliths (stone statues). -All stanzas have four lines, except the final stanza
size of his statue and ‘despair’, however they should -First eight lines (the octave) of the sonnet: the statue old name / With anybody’s gift’: she was beneath him effect shows his frustration and anger: ‘She thanked -‘pages smoothed and stroked and turned’: gentle which has one line (‘turned into your skin’): this line
all really despair because power is only temporary. is described in parts to show its destruction. in status, and yet dared to rebel against his authority. men, – good! but thanked / Somehow – I know not verbs convey how important paper documents such focuses on humans, and addresses the reader directly
‘The lone and level sands stretch far away.’: the -Final two lines: the huge and immortal desert is -‘I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together’: how’ as the Koran are treated with respect. to remind us that we are all fragile and temporary.
desert is vast, lonely, and lasts far longer than a statue. described to emphasise the insignificance of human euphemism for his wife’s murder. -Dramatic Irony: the reader can read between the lines -‘Fine slips […] might fly our lives like paper kites’: this -Enjambment between lines and stanzas creates an
power and pride. -‘Notice Neptune, though / Taming a sea-horse’: he and see that the Duke’s comments have a much more simile suggests that we allow ourselves to be effect of freedom and flowing movement.
points out another painting, also about control. sinister undertone. controlled by paper.
Extract from The Prelude: Stealing the Boat by William Wordsworth Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney London by William Blake
Power: Power of Nature, Memories Conflict: Power: Power of Nature Conflict: Humans v Nature Power: Class, Humans Conflict: Hierarchy
Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context Content, Meaning and Purpose Context
-The story of the narrator’s love of nature and a -Published shortly after his death, The Prelude was a -The narrator describes how a rural island community -Seamus Heaney was Northern Irish, he died in 2013. -The narrator is describing a walk around London and -The poem was published in 1794, a time of great
night-time adventure in a rowing boat that instils a very long poem (14 books) that told the story of prepared for a coming storm, and how they were -This poem was published in 1966 at the start of ‘The how he is saddened by the sights and sounds of poverty in many parts of London.
deeper and fearful respect for the power of nature. William Wordsworth’s life. confident in their preparations. Troubles’ in Northern Ireland: a period of deep unrest poverty. -William Blake was an English poet and artist. Much of
-At first, the narrator is calm and confident, but the -This extract is the first part of a book entitled -When the storm hits, they are shocked by its power: and violence between those who wanted to remain -The poem also addresses the loss of innocence and his work was influenced by his radical political views:
sight of a huge mountain that comes into view scares ‘Introduction – Childhood and School-Time’. its violent sights and sounds are described, using the part of the UK and those who wanted to become part the determinism of inequality: how new-born infants he believed in social and racial equality.
him and he flees back to the shore. -Like Percy Shelley, Wordsworth was a romantic poet metaphor of war. of Ireland. are born into poverty. -He also questioned the teachings of the Church and
-He is now in awe of the mountain and now fearful of and so his poetry explores themes of nature, human -The final line of the poem reveals their fear of -The first eight letters of the title spell ‘Stormont’: this -The poem uses rhetoric (persuasive techniques) to the decisions of Government.
the power of nature which are described as ‘huge and emotion and how humans are shaped by their nature’s power is the name of Northern Ireland’s parliament. The convince the reader that the people in power
mighty forms, that do not live like living men.’ interaction with nature. poem might be a metaphor for the political storm that (landowners, Church, Government) are to blame for
-We should respect nature and not take it for granted. was building in the country at the time. this inequality.
Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure Language Form and Structure
-‘One summer evening (led by her)’: ‘her’ might be -First person narrative – creates a sense that it is a -‘Nor are there trees which might prove company’: -Written in blank verse and with lots of enjambment: -Sensory language creates an immersive effect: visual -A dramatic monologue, there is a first-person narrator
nature personified – this shows his love for nature. personal poem. the island is a lonely, barren place. this creates a conversational and anecdotal tone. imagery (‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’) and (‘I) who speaks passionately about what he sees.
-‘an act of stealth / And troubled pleasure’: confident, -The regular rhythm and enjambment add to the effect -Violent verbs are used to describe the storm: -‘We’ (first person plural) creates a sense of aural imagery (‘cry of every man’) -Simple ABAB rhyme scheme: reflects the unrelenting
but the oxymoron suggests he knows it’s wrong; of natural speech and a personal voice. ‘pummels’, ‘exploding’, ‘spits’. community, and ‘You’ (direct address) makes the -‘mind-forged manacles’: they are trapped in poverty. misery of the city, and perhaps the rhythm of his feet
forebodes the troubling events that follow. -The extract can be split into three sections, each with -Semantic field of war: ‘Exploding comfortably’ (also reader feel immersed in the experience. -Rhetorical devices to persuade: repetition (‘In as he trudges around the city.
-‘nothing but the stars and grey sky’: emptiness of sky. a different tone to reflect his shifting mood: an oxymoron to contrast fear/safety); ‘wind dives and -The poem can split into three sections: every..’); emotive language (‘infant’s cry of fear’). -First two stanzas focus on people; third stanza focuses
-‘the horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge’: Lines 1-20: (rowing) carefree and confident strafes invisibly’ (the wind is a fighter plane); ‘We are Confidence: ‘We are prepared:’ (ironic) -Criticises the powerful: ‘each chartered street’ – on the institutions he holds responsible; fourth stanza
the image of the mountain is more shocking (contrast). Lines 21-31: (the mountain appears) dark and fearful bombarded by the empty air’ (under ceaseless attack). The violence of the storm: ‘It pummels your house’ everything is owned by the rich; ‘Every black’ning returns to the people – they are the central focus.
-‘Upreared its head’ and ‘measured motion like a Lines 32-44: (following days) reflective and troubled -This also reinforces the metaphor of war / troubles. Fear: ‘it is a huge nothing that we fear.’ church appals’ - the church is corrupt; ‘the hapless
living thing’: the mountain is personified as a powerful -Contrasts in tone: ‘lustily I dipped my oars into the -‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’: simile compares -There is a turning point (a volta) in Line 14: ‘But no:’. soldier’s sigh / Runs in blood down palace walls’ –
beast, but calm – contrasts with his own inferior panic. silent lake’ versus ‘I struck and struck again’ and ‘with the nature to an animal that has turned on its owner. This monosyllabic phrase, and the caesura, reflects the soldier’s suffer and die due to the decisions of those in
-‘There hung a darkness’: lasting effects of mountain. trembling oars I turned’. final calm before the storm. power, who themselves live in palaces.
Key themes and connections: poems that you might choose to compare Language for comparison Assessment Objectives Poetic Techniques
Ensure that your answer covers all of these LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
When poems have similarities areas: Metaphor – comparing one thing to another Stanza – a group of lines in a poem.
AO1 Simile – comparing two things with ‘like’ or ‘as’ Repetition – repeated words or phrases
Similarly, … Personification – giving human qualities to the non- Enjambment – a sentence or phrase that runs onto the
Both poems convey / address…  Write a response related to the key word in
human next line.
Both poets explore / present… the question. Imagery – language that makes us imagine a sight Caesura – using punctuation to create pauses or stops.
 Use comparative language to explore both (visual), sound (aural), touch (tactile), smell or taste. Contrast – opposite concepts/feelings in a poem.
This idea is also explored in…
poems. Tone – the mood or feeling created in a poem. Juxtaposition – contrasting things placed side by side.
In a similar way, …
 Use a range of evidence to support your Pathetic Fallacy – giving emotion to weather in order Oxymoron – a phrase that contradicts itself.
Likewise, … response and to show the meaning of the to create a mood within a text. Anaphora – when the first word of a stanza is the
poems. Irony – language that says one thing but implies the same across different stanzas.
When poems have differences opposite eg. sarcasm. Epistrophe – when the final word of a stanza is the
AO2
Colloquial Language – informal language, usually same across different stanzas.
Although…  Comment on the effect of the language in creates a conversational tone or authentic voice. Volta – a turning point in a poem.
Whereas… your evidence, including individual words. Onomatopoeia – language that sounds like its FORM
Whilst…  Identify any use of poetic techniques and meaning. Speaker – the narrator, or person in the poem.
In contrast, … explain their effects. Alliteration – words that are close together start with Free verse – poetry that doesn’t rhyme.
AO3 the same letter or sound. Blank verse – poem in iambic pentameter, but with no
Conversely, … Sibilance – the repetition of s or sh sounds. rhyme.
 What might the poet’s intentions have been
On the other hand, … Assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds Sonnet – poem of 14 lines with clear rhyme scheme.
when they wrote the poem?
On the contrary, … Consonance – repetition of consonant sounds. Rhyming couplet – a pair of rhyming lines next to each
 How might a reader interpret the poem
Unlike…  Comment on the historical context – when
Plosives – short burst of sound: t, k, p, d, g, or b sound. other.
Meter – arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables.
was the poem published and what impact Monologue – one person speaking for a long time.
1 CRY; BLOOD; SIGH
2 HUGE; TREMBLING; SPARKLING
3 CURIOUS; NERVOUS; NOTHING
4 THEIRS; HONOUR; HERO
5 BLAST; EXPLODING; SPITS
Which poem has each group
6 NIGHTMARE; GHOST; TEARS of words been taken from,
7 STRUCTURE; BUILD; SUN and who is the author of that
8 BLIND; BANDAGE; STAR
9 BROTHERS; FATHER; JOURNEY
poem?
10 SUNLIGHT; DARK; BRANDED
11 RELEASED; DOVE; PLAYGROUND
12 NUMB; BEWILDERMENT; KING
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13 STOOP; BLUSH; TAMING
14 DECAY; STAMPED; LONE
15 DOZEN; LORRY; BLOODY
Quiz: Poems with a link to military conflict

1. Why might Armitage use colloquial language in Remains?

2. What were Wilfred Owen’s views on war?
3. State what PTSD stands for and name a poem that explores this
particular effect of conflict (2)
4. Explain, in one sentence, how Tennysson creates a celebratory mood in
Charge of the Light Brigade
5. In terms of setting, where does War Photographer begin and end?
6. Name two poems that show the effect that military conflict can have on
families
7. Why does Rumens write about a non-specific “City”? (2)
8. What point does Hughes make about patriotism in Bayonet Charge?
Quiz: Poems with a link to feelings regarding conflicts

1. In one sentence, how does the narrator feel about the power of
nature at the end of The Prelude?
2. What is the last line of Remains and how can it be explained? (2)
3. State and explain an unpleasant scene that the War Photographer
remembers (2)
4. Which three word phrase sums up the monotony of war in Exposure?
5. Each stanza in The Emigree ends with the word ‘Sunlight’. What does
this show the reader about the narrator’s feelings? (2)
6. Why does the narrator’s mother never speak to her father again in
Kamikaze
7. State a line that shows the narrator’s anger and frustration in My Last
Duchess
Quiz: Poems with a link to the power of nature

1. Give an example of the weather being personified in Exposure

2. Describe the setting of the traveller’s tale in Ozymandias
3. Storm on the Island is often seen as a metaphor for The Troubles.
Which country did this historical event take place in?
4. What are the two types of Tissue that Imitiaz Dharker writes about?
5. Who might ‘her’ refer to in the opening line of The Prelude – “One
summer evening (led by her)”?
6. How does Heaney create a conversational tone in Storm on the
Island?
7. How can Ozymandias be seen as a poem about nature?
Quiz: Poems with a link to the theme of identity

1. What is the effect of Agard’s use of Caribbean dialect?

2. Why does Rumens not write about a specific city in The Emigree?
3. How can “I left it as a child”, from The Emigree, be seen as
ambiguous?
4. Which three people recognised Ozymandias as arrogant?
5. Explain an example of the narrator of My Last Duchess exerting
power over his duchess.
Knowledge Test 1
1. What were Wilfred Owen’s views on war?
2. State what PTSD stands for and name a poem that explores this
particular effect of conflict (2)
3. Explain, in one sentence, how Tennyson creates a celebratory mood in
Charge of the Light Brigade
4. What point does Hughes make about patriotism in Bayonet Charge?
5. In one sentence, how does the narrator feel about the power of nature
at the end of The Prelude?
6. Give an example of the weather being personified in Exposure.
7. Describe the setting of the traveller’s tale in Ozymandias
8. What is enjambment and what is its effect? (2)
Knowledge Test 2
1. Who wrote “My Last Duchess”?
2. What was the name of the Duke?
3. When did William Blake write London?
4. Complete the quotation: “In every cry, in every band, the mind-forged
__________________ ______ ________________.”
5. In what part of England is the Prelude set?
6. What type of vehicle does the voice of the Prelude go joyriding in?
7. Who wrote the Charge of the Light Brigade?
8. Where did the famous Charge take place?
9. How many people began the charge?
10. How many survived?