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30 Cards in this Set
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What’s the semantic field of Ozymandias? |
Power, destruction |
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Analyse antique |
Historic, out of date |
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A quote from Ozymandias |
I met a traveller from an antique land My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away |
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Who wrote Ozymandias? |
Percy Shelley |
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Who wrote London? |
William Blake |
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Analyse chartered |
Known, logged in “Chartered Thames” control of nature |
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What’s a quote from London |
The mind forged manacles I hear Runs in blood down palace walls And blights with plagues the marriage hearse |
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What rhyming structure does London have? |
A basic A B rhyming structure |
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Who wrote The Charge Of The Light Brigade? |
Alfred Tennyson |
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What’s a quote from The Charge Of The Light Brigade |
Rode the six hundred Back from the mouth of Hell Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred |
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Why are there six stanzas in The Charge Of The Light Brigade? |
A stanza for every hundred that died, honouring |
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What’s the significance of “Noble six hundred”? |
It’s imperative. Many questioned the charge so Tennyson is honouring the honourable heroes. |
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Who wrote Bayonet Charge? |
Ted Hughes |
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What’s a quote from Bayonet Charge? |
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations Listening between footfalls for the reason His terror’s touchy dynamite |
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Analyse “Statuary in mid stride.” |
It’s at the end of the second stanza- it gives hope. But also it ends the enjambment with a sense of finality |
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What does enjambement show in Bayonet Charge? |
The soldiers urgency and desperation |
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Who wrote Remains? |
Simon Armitage |
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What’s a quote from Remains? |
Well myself and somebody else and somebody else He’s there on the ground, sort of inside out Tossed his guts back into his body Then I’m home on leave Dug in behind enemy lines |
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Analyse “sort of inside out” |
Childish. Can’t comprehend what happened |
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What’s the semantic field of Remains? |
Informal, casual - what happened happened |
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Analyse “his bloody life in my bloody hands” from Remains |
Messy, swear Can’t keep ahold of it, just staining everything- life. Hands. Clothes. Brain. Memory. |
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Who wrote Poppies? |
Jane Weir |
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What are some quotes from Poppies? |
The world overflowing like a treasure chest Through the gelled blackthorns of your hair Sellotape bandaged around my hand |
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Analyse “through the gelled blackthorns of your hair” |
Styled hair suggests loss of innocence, blackthorns a flashback to the days before |
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Who wrote War Photographer? |
Carol Anne Duffy |
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Quote war photographer |
In his dark room he is finally alone Running children in a nightmare heat A hundred agonies in black and white A half former ghost |
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Analyse “home again, to ordinary pain” from Poppies |
War has issues of death and bombs home only has bad weather and mundane issues |
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Who wrote Kamikaze? |
Beatrice Garland |
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Quote Kamikaze |
A samurai sword in the cock pit Little fishing boats strung out like bunting Arcing in swathes like a huge flag My mother never spoke again of his presence He must have wondered which had been the better way to die |
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Analyse “like a huge flag” in kamikaze |
Simile. Reminding him of what he’s betraying as he betrays it |
