English Literature Poetry AQA Moon on the Tides CONFLICT
Covers the following poems: Bayonet Charge, At the Border, 1979, Come on, Come back, The Yellow Palm, Belfast Confetti, Flag, Hawk Roosting, Poppies, Futility, Mametz Wood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Falling Leaves, next to of course god america i, The Right Word, extract from 'Out of the Blue' Only on what to compare,chosen key bits and who the speaker is.
- Created by: Gemma
- Created on: 23-05-12 15:04
Structure to use.
Poem 1: Poem 2:
Introduction (focus on key words and perspective/ideas of poet)
Language comparison (techniques including imagery)
Form and Structure comparison (arrangement and endings)
Conclusion (focus on key words and ideas/message of poem)
Bayonet Charge
Speaker: From a viewpoint of a solider who is running in an attack
Compare with: The Charge of the Light Brigade - The description of action in war. Mametz Wood - Contrast between war and its aftermath
Belfast Confetti - Language chosen to depict violence
Chosen key points: Metaphors, similes, onomatopia, imagery and personification used.
Chosen quotes: 'The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest' - painful burning in his chest, fighting with fear, tear of honour/pride then turns to no patriotism....just wants to get out of it.
'King, honour [....]' All patriotism lost. 'His terror's touchy dynamite' He's so scared he could explode. Running to get out of it.
At the Border, 1979
Speaker: Young girl recalls her family, with many others, standing at a border checkpoint
Compare with: The Yellow Palm - how war can divide a country
Flag - the idea of national identity, but in a much different sense
The Right Word - the contrast between the innocence of childhood and the perception of adults
Chosen key points: mood of tension and optimism and joy, metaphor, caesura, enjambment, patriotism
Chosen key quotes: 'I can inhale home' - use of senses + anticipation
Caesura used to make mothers announcement seem grand and significant.
'A men bent down [....]' - Patriotic man, young child doesn't understand. Reaction seems exaggerated as the land is nothing special.
Come on, Come back
Speaker: Poet is talking about a war that isn't real
Compare with: Futility - death in war
The Yellow Palm - the effect of war on ordinary people
The Falling Leaves - the quiet, sad tone which hides the horror beneath
Chosen key points: metaphor, alliteration, repetition, emphases, language juxtaposes the sad confusion of the girl solider with natural images.
Chosen quotes: 'ominious' - hints something bad will happen
natural images contrast
'wild' - manic, no tune
'[....] memory is dead [....]' - deprieved of memory/identity
The Yellow Palm
Speaker: 'Narrator's walk down Palestine Street in Baghdad reveals different terrible images
Compare with: The Right Word - repeated patterns to emphasise meaning and theme
Poppies - war affects on ordinary people
Belfast Confetti - conflict in the city streets
Futility - last stanza
Chosen key points: Repetition, metaphor, double meanings, enjambment, description with use of senses, child innocence
Chosen key quotes: 'no armistice' - no end, no solution, no peace, conflict carries on.'[....] turned up his face [....]' enjambment - carries on nothing stop
Belfast Confetti
Speaker: 1st person in explosion
Compare with: The Yellow Palm - violence in a city
Bayonet Charge - images that leap from one to another to describe confusion
The Right Word - the theme of violence and those who might bring it Out of the Blue - building
Chosen key points: No structure (enjambment to show explosion), irregular, to achieve an eractic and fragmented feel within this poem. - confusion + explosion. Stilled effected now.
Chosen quotes: 'A fusillade of question - marks' - police/soliders, himself - confusion. turmoil, panic, nationality, future.
Flag
Speaker: Poet - considers the power of a simple piece of cloth, a flag.
Compare with: The Charge of the Light Brigade - blindly following orders in battle which lead to death
next to of course god america i - an ironic voice
Poppies - a symbol of remembrance of those who diesw in war
Chosen key points: connotations of flag, semantic fields, form all the same except the last stanza, altnerative interpretation of knees, personification
Chosen quotes: 'just' repeat + could be sarcasm/ last stanza - emphasing it has a bigger meaning (trying to make a point) 'cloth' repeated throughout except last stanza - emphase power of the cloth.
Hawk Roosting
Speaker: Hawk
Compare with: The Falling Leaves - a quiet mood of grief. Natural + metaphors
Yellow Palm - violent imagery
Chosen key points: interpretations - political leaders (power) - dictatorship, metaphorical, literal.
Chosen quotes: Majority emphasise power/arrogant(ce). creater (capitals) thinks he's in charge.
Poppies
Speaker: A mother recalls an incident
Compare with:The Falling Leaves - a quiet mood of grief
The Charge of the Light Brigade - personal grief + public celebration + how 1 thing can change peoples lifes.
The Yellow Palm - a natural symbol of peace
Chosen key points: semantic fields, free verse + enjambment (no regular rhyme scheme or rhythm + run on lines), metaphor simile
Chosen key quotes: 'split second' - shows turning point, poem changes. 'leaned' emotional pain she cant stand up - link to wishbone. 'spasms' - metaphor shows excitement - pride/duty for his country.
Futility
Speaker: Owen himself talking about 1st person experience of life on the front. (how futile the waste of life was)
Compare with: The Falling Leaves: written from a woman 3rd perso, pacifist (concerned about the effect) like Owen thinks its futile + understated comment on the waste of young life.
Come on, Come back: the death of an individual soldier in war (diff: imaginery)
Mametz Wood: the First World War and the mood of quiet regret
Chosen key points: personification to sun, v.vocab on pointlessness, use of questions
Chosen quotes: ' kind old sun' - desperate, sun is only hope.
'Move' - command
Mametz Wood
Speaker: Flashbacks
Compare with: The Falling Leaves - the pathos (how events evoke strong feelings of pity or sorrow in the reader)
The Yellow Palm - powerful images of death
Poppies - a personal focus on death in war
Chosen key points: metaphors, flashbacks. futile
Chosen quotes: bits from stanza 2 - fragile bones -> fragile lives, strong visual images
Last verse of stanza 4 - keep coming back.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Speaker: Poet narrates a cavalry charge.
Compare with: Bayonet Charge - a soldier's attack against enemy fire
The Falling Leaves - a contrasting mood of quiet grief of death in war
Mametz Wood - the fate of men who marched to death
Chosen key points: repetition, semantic fields, frequency of death, personification
Chose quotes: 'blunder'd' mistake -> destroyed people lives like in 'Mametz Wood', never ending orders, rhythm = movement of horse (replicates charge) 'All that was left of them' emphasises the amount of deaths/losses
The Falling Leaves
Speaker: narrator rides through the woods and relates leaves to the soliders
Compare with: Futility - 1st/3rd person differences (see 'Futility' card) + death in war and natural images
Poppies - quietly remembering the dead
Mametz Wood - reminders of dead soliders
Chosen key points: pacifist/link to 'Futility', Broken into two parts - visual + thoughts (with a ; - caesura), alliteration, snowflakes fall individually like soliders. Only one long sentence which means the poem is one long sentence/thoughts.
Chosen quotes: 'brown leaves' - dead leaves, dead soldiers
'thickly, silently' - fell in big amounts quietly
alliteration 'w' - whistling sound use of sense, vivid enchance description - more real for the reader.
next to of course god america i
Speaker: imaginary patriotic speach
Compare with: The Right Word - language and its meanings
Belfast Confetti - deliberate confused syntax (order) for effect
Flag - the call to patriotism
Chosen key points: mockery (sytrical), starts patriotic then starts mocking. Short last sentence - doesn't care/no meaning
Chosen quotes: 'by jingo [....]' - american slang, not serious. Speaks hastily so he mispronounced 'golly' -> 'gorry'
The Right Word
Speaker: Poet
Compare with: next to of course god america i - the different associations attached to words
The Yellow Palm - the effect of warfare on ordinary people
Poppies - the child and the soldier
Chosen key points:repetition, trying to find the right description, questionning, could be metaphors
Chose quotes: 'outside your door' - could be metaphorically - e.g outside of comfort zone, divide between rich and poor, town or country. - threshold of safety - doesn't want to let the person in. Last stanza - relief but guilty about judgement, trying to sort things peacefully instead of lurking in the shadows/conflict.
extract from 'Out of the Blue'
Speaker: 1st person later on imagines a second person - loved one?
Compare with: The Yellow Palm - conflict and terror in a neighbourhood
Belfast Confetti - conflict in a modern city
At the Border, 1979 - events from a particular point of view
Chosen key points: title - terro/unexpected, alliteration, repetition, rhyme
Chosen quotes: 'A bird [....]' - image of freedom
Questions - asking for help
End full stop + language - giving up
'white' - surrender etc etc.
Unseen Poetry
Use song - Who, what, how, why
Plan x2
Who:
What: (purpose)
What: (feelings)
How:
Why:
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