GCSE English Power And Conflict Poetry
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Petrarchan sonnet
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing remains of his great works
William Blake
Mental chains of oppression and social control
Repetition to emphasize control
William Wordsworth
Blank verse
The awesome power of nature
Robert Browning
Dramatic monologue
He had her killed
His desire to control and possess
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Crimean War
Half a league
Soldiers must obey orders without question
Wilfred Owen
World War I
The weather/cold
The monotony and futility of trench warfare
Seamus Heaney
Ireland during the Troubles
Fear
Ted Hughes
Heavy and burdensome
Oxymoron
Simon Armitage
The Iraq War/Gulf War
The memory of shooting a looter
Guilt and trauma
Jane Weir
Remembrance of war dead
Saying goodbye to her son going to war
Carol Ann Duffy
A place of truth and development
Rolls of film containing images of war
Imtiaz Dharker
The fragility of human constructs
The Quran
Carol Rumens
Positive childhood memories
Ellipsis
John Agard
Black historical figures ignored by colonial education
Visual representation of different voices
Beatrice Garland
Thoughts of his family and the beauty of life
Third-person narrative
Abuse of power
Oppression and control
The reality of war
The fragility of human constructs
The impact of war on those left behind
Guilt and psychological trauma
Identity and cultural memory
The passage of time and impermanence
Everything is controlled and owned
black and huge"?
The Duke's controlling
Creates the rhythm of horses charging
Makes the experience immediate and ongoing
Sense of community facing threat
Shows the soldier's sudden realization
Makes the reader complicit
Blood and violence
The sanctity of his work
Human fragility and impermanence
The speaker's emotional attachment
Represents Caribbean dialect and identity
Different viewpoints on honor and duty
Shelley's republican views and critique of tyranny
Industrial Revolution and social inequality
Romanticism
Renaissance Italy and patriarchal power
The Battle of Balaclava
World War I and trench warfare
The Northern Ireland Troubles
World War I
Modern warfare in Iraq/Afghanistan
Military families and loss
Contrast between war zones and peaceful home
Borders and divisions are temporary
Various forced migrations and exiles
Traditional British historical narrative
World War II and Japanese culture
Alliteration
marks of woe" in "London"?
Personification
Dramatic irony
Dactylic dimeter
Personification and alliteration
Metaphor and oxymoron
Caesura
Colloquial language and enjambment
rolled
Juxtaposition
Metaphor
Ellipsis
Contrast through typography
Third-person narrative shift
The mighty statue is now broken ruins
As oppressive and controlling every aspect of life
The mountain overwhelms and intimidates the speaker
Through his casual mentions of murder and control
Through heroic language and honor
Through focus on suffering rather than glory
As violent and unpredictable
Through the soldier's disoriented thoughts
Through the haunting repetition of the shooting
Through a mother's grief and worry
Through the photographer's duty to record truth
As temporary and fragile like paper
Through idealized recollections of homeland
By questioning whose stories are told
Through duty to country versus love of family
It contrasts the contained poem with Ozymandias's vast claims
To emphasize how everything is controlled and commodified
It mirrors natural speech while maintaining formality
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