Quotes from Poems - AQA power and conflict
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- Created on: 25-06-17 19:05
Ozymandias
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -PRIDE
- "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
- Stand in the desert"
- "Half sunk , a shattered visage lies"
- "My name is Ozymandias , king of kings
- Look on my works , ye mighty and despair!"
- "boundless and bare,
- The lone and level sands sretch far away"
My Last Duchess
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - PRIDE , IDENTITY
"That's my last duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive"
"She liked whatever
she looked on, and her looks went everywhere"
"I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together,"
Exposure
THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE
"Watching , we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire ,
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles."
"Pale flakes with ********* stealth come feeling for our faces"
"But nothing happens"
Bayonet Charge
THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"Suddenly , he awoke and he was running - raw
In raw - seamed hot khaki , his sweat heavy..."
"Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
And crawled in a threshing circle , it mouth wide..."
"His terror's touchy dynamite"
Remains
THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - GUILT
"I see every round as it rips through his life-
I see broad daylight on the other side"
"End of story , except not really"
"Probably armed , possibly not"
"His bloody life in my bloody hands"
War Phtographer
THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - ANGER , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - GUILT , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"In his darkroom , he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
"only light is red and softly glows,
as though this was a church and he
a priest"
"to fields which don't explode beneath your feet
of running children in a nightmare heat"
"Where he earns his living and they do not care"
Kamikaze
THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE, MEMORY , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES.
"Her father embarked at sunrise
With a flask of water , a samurai sword"
"A shaven head
Full of powerful incantations"
"A tuna , the dark prince , muscular and dangerous"
"little fishing boats
Strung out like bunting"
London
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS, LOSS AND ABSENCE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -ANGER, INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness , marks of woe"
"In every cry of every man,
In every infants cry of fear,
The mind forged manacles I hear"
"How the youthful harlot's curse ...
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
Extract from , The Prelude
THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -PRIDE , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"Small circles gathering idly in the moon ,
Until they melted all into one track
Of sparkling light"
".. a huge peak , black and huge,
As if with voluntary power instinct,
Upreared its head"
"..moved slowly through the mind
by day and were a trouble to my dreams"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT, IDENTITY
"Half a league , half a league,
Half a league onwards,
All into the valley of Death
rode the six hundred"
"Forward the light brigade
Charge for the guns!"
"When can their glory fade?"
Storm on the Island
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR
"We are prepared: we build our houses squat.
Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate."
"The wizened earth has never troubled us
With hay , so as you can see , there are no stacks"
"The flung spray hits
The very windows ,spits like a tame cat
Turned savage."
Poppies
THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"I wanted to graze my nose
across the tip of your nose , play at
being eskimos like we did when
you were little"
" All my words flattened , rolled, turned into felt."
"I traced
the inscriptions on the war memorial,
Leaned against it like a wishbone."
The Emigree
THEMES - LOSS AND ABSENCE , MEMORY , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES
"There was once a country.. I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight clear"
"...but I can't get it off my toungue. It tastes of sunlight"
"The worst news of it cannot break
My original view , the bright , filled paperweight
Checking Out Me History
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - ANGER , IDENTITY
"Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me"
" Dem tell me bout 1066 and all datDem tell me bout **** Whittington and he cat"
"And even when the British said noShe still brave the Russian snow" (MARY SEACOLE)
" But now I checking out me own historyI carving out me identity"
Tissue
THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , IDENTITY
"Paper lets the light
Shine through, this
is what could alter things"
"Maps too. The sun shines through
Their borderlines, the marks
That rivers make, roads,
Railtracks , mountainfolds,"
"Might fly our lives like paper kites"
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