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15 Cards in this Set
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The charge of the light brigade |
Out of the blue |
Both poems work as public memorials for disasters that become widespread media events. They describe victims of disasters of not of their makings |
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Futility |
Mametz wood |
Both poems contrast images of men and earth and are concerned with the memory of the dead |
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Out of the blue |
Mametz wood |
Both poems deal with death on a large scale and explore the relationship between personal tragedy and social history |
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Flag |
At the boarder |
Both poems are about nationalists, nations and imagined communities |
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Mametz wood |
Poppies |
Both are about the effects of war but contrast in the sense that poppies is more personal |
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The yellow palm |
Mametz wood |
Both poems link a specific place to larger events in history through the use of imagery involving nature |
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The right word |
Belfast confetti |
Both poems describe a world were soldierd and civilians are part of everyday life in a city divided by political and religious conflict |
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At the boarder |
Flag |
Both poems explore the way ideas of home and nationhood can be expressed in symbols |
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Bayonet charge |
Futilty |
Both poems describe the ww1 trenches and the horrors of war but from different points of view |
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The falling leaves |
Poppies |
Both poems add a powerful female voice to the presentation of war in poetry |
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Come on, come back |
Poppies |
Both poems express feelings of sadness and anger at conflict bu focusing on symbols of beuty and innocence. They both also search for consolation in the face of death |
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Next to of course god america I |
The right word |
The poems contrast in the sense that the politician in next to of course god america I does not think about what he is saying, wheras the speaker in the right word searches desperetly for the right word to call the boy and worries about the words she uses |
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Hawk roosting |
Next to of course god America I |
Both poems are political speeches suggesting the same conclusion: violence and death for the weak |
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Belfast confetti |
The right word |
Both poems use language to covey the poets struggles to describe conflict |
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Poppies |
The falling leaves |
Both contrast between the calm delivery of the words and the violent subject matter |
