Poetry Power And Conflict

Front 1

-Storm on the island

Back 1

- nature :

•"blast: you know what I mean"

•"exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"

•"it is a huge nothing we fear"

(caesura, semantic field of war, iambic pentameter, juxtaposition, dramatic volta)

Front 2

-Kamikaze

Back 2

- patriotism can cause devastation:

•"as though he no longer existed"

•"till gradually we too learned to be silent"

•"no longer the father we loved"

•"journey into history"

(Irony, caesura + enjambment, sibilant sounds)

Front 3

-war photographer

Back 3

- power of war:

•"he earns his living and they do not care."

•"all flesh is grass."

•"something is happening."

•"he remembers the cries of this man's wife"

(Plosive sounds, metaphors, sibilant sounds, similes, irony, volta, emphasis"

Front 4

-the emigrée

Back 4

- losing identity:

• "my memory of it is sunlight-clear" • "time rolls it's tanks"

• "I have no passport, there's no way back at all"

• "my city hides behind me"

(Light imagery, fairytale-like begining, metaphor, juxtaposition, personification)

Front 5

-london

Back 5

- control of society and nature:

•"in every cry of every man, in every cry infants cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban"

•"marks of weakness, marks of woe"

•"the hapless soldiers sigh"

(Regular rhyme, alliteration, dramatic monologue, anaphora, personal experience)

Front 6

-tissue

Back 6

- effect of ear in identity and loved ones:

•"turned into your skin."

•"paper thinned by age or touching" •"written the names and histories, who was born to whom"

•"of paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent"

(Paper in all walks of life, enjambment, light imagery, single line paragraph at the end, repetition)