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Poetry
English Paper 2

Ozymandias - Perry Bysshe Shelley
Form:

Themes:

Sonnet (Shakespeare, Petrarchan, unknown)

Power of nature, critic of powerful

Structure:

Compares with:

One stanza

My Last Duchess, any poem about nature

Language:

Context:

“I met a traveller”

Romantic poet

“cold command”

Atheist

“hand that mocked”

Ozymandias resembles King George III

“boundless and bare”

King Ramseses II

London - William Blake
Form:

Themes:

Dramatic monologue

Misuse of power, suffering, power of man, place

Structure:

Compares with:

Iambic trentameter (one line has 7)

The Prelude, The Emigrée

Cyclical structure (suffering)

Context:

Language:

Songs of Innocence and Experience criticised
humans corrupting the world

“chartered Thames”
Against industrial revolution
“marriage hearse”
Disagreed with church but was was a Christian
“every black’ning church”

The Prelude - William Wordsworth
Form:

Themes:

Blank continuous verse, epic poem

Power of nature, inner conflict, power of man

Structure:

Compares with:

Enjambement

Any nature poem, Kamikaze, London, Tissue

Cyclical structure “stealth” “stole”

Context:

Language:

Romantic

“her” “its”

John Milton ‘Paradise Lost’ epic poem “elfin
pinnace” mythical language

“a huge peak, black and huge”
“views of man, nature and society”
“proud of his skill”

My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
Form:

Themes:

Dramatic monologue

Domestic power, power of man, control

Structure:

Compares with:

Rhyming couplets and enhancement

Ozymandias, COTLB (misuse of power resulting
in death)

One long stanza
Context:
Language:
Victoria vs Italian Renaissance
“my” “Frà Pandolf”
Attitudes to women = controlling
“which I have not”
“taming a seahorse”
“I gave commands”

Charge Of The Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Form:

Themes:

Ballad

Negative vs positive, misuse of power, war

Structure:

Compares with:

Six stanzas

Any war poem, Bayonet Charge, My Last Duchess

Dacylic dimeter (satire)

Context:

Language:

Cavalry were made up of upper class soldiers and
often weren't involved in battle

“all the world wondered”
Poet Laureate - subtle criticism
“theirs not to”
“jaws of death”

Exposure - Wilfred Owen
Form:

Themes:

Regular rhyme

Reality of war, conflict, nature

Structure:

Compares with:

Pararhyme

Any war poem e
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Bayonet Charge, War
Photographer, any nature poem

Stanza structure to build tension, anticlimax
Context:
Language:
Revolutionary WW1 poet
“winds that knive us” “her melancholy army”
Abandoned religion “For love of God is dying”
“merciless iced east winds”
“but nothing happens” “black with snow”

Storm On The Island - Seamus Heaney
Form:

Themes:

Continuous verse

Power of nature and conflict

Structure:

Compares with:

Cyclical structure of pararhyme

Any nature poem

Enjambement

Context:

Language:

Extended etaphor of NI Troubles shows in mix of
English iambic pentameter and Irish phrases

“blasts” “pummels”
Stormont
“exploding comfortably”
Repetition of “company”

Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
Form:

Themes:

Blank verse

Horror of war, futility of war, following orders

Structure:

Compares with:

Starts in middle “suddenly”

Any war poem, particularly Exposure and
Kamikaze

Enjambement between stanzas and caesura ?
Context:
Language:
Father served in WW1
“raw” “like a flame” “etcetera” “patriotic tear”
“his terror’s touchy dynamite”
“smacking” “listening for reason”

Admired Wilfred Owen, similarities to ‘Spring
Offensive’

Remains - Simon Armitage
Form:

Themes:

Irregular rhyme and rhythm

Memories, can’t escape war, effects of conflict

Structure:

Compares with:

Caesura and volta

War Photographer, any poem with death e
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My
Last Duchess

Changes from we to I
Context:
Language:
“blood-shadow” “week after week”
“rips through his life-”
“won’t flush him out”

Interviewed soldiers for 2007 collection of
poems
References to “desert sand” represent the Gulf
War

Poppies - Jane Weir
Form:

Themes:

Dramatic monologue

Domestic conflict and effects on family

Structure:

Compares with:

Enjambement onto different stanzas “slowly
melting”

Kamikaze, Remains, War Photographer
Context:

Caesuras vs strong form
Textile designer hence symbolism
Language:
Poppies and memory of WW1
“sellotape bandaged” “I was brave”
Ask to write by Carol Ann Duffy
“overflowing like a treasure chest”

War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
Form:

Themes:

Rhyme

Memories of war, civilian perspective,
impossibility to present horror of war

Structure:
Compares with:
Cyclical structure (war zone)
Remains or any other war poem
Staccato sentences interrupt smooth
Context:
Language:
1985
“ordered rows” “half formed ghost”
“all flesh is grass” “a hundred agonies”
“they do not care” “Belfast
...
Phnom Penh”

Vietnam war “running children in a nightmare
heat”

Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker
Form:

Themes:

Free verse

Fragility of man and power, inner conflict

Structure:

Compares with:

Enjambement: new topic before new stanza

The Prelude, Ozymandias

Stand alone line “turned into your skin”

Context:

Language:

Impressionistic

“transparent” “shines through”

Muslim Calvinist: “Koran” “alter things”

“fine slips from grocery shops” “maps”

God has power

The Emigrée - Carol Rumens
Form:

Themes:

Free verse

Power of place, imagination, identity, memories

Structure:

Compares with:

Enjambement and caesura

Checking Out Me History, London

Each stanza ends with “sunlight”

Context:

Language:

Émigré - forced to leave her country

“branded by an impression of sunlight”

Not a specific place, ambiguity

“bright, filled paperweight” “takes me dancing”
“time rolls its tanks” “my shadow falls”

Checking Out Me History - John Agard
Form:

Themes:

Oral and building rhyme scheme in stanzas

Identity, being out of place

Structure:

Compares with:

Enjambement and italic stanzas

The Emigrée

No punctuation

Context:

Language:

Born in South America and moved to England

“dem tell me” “carving”

Believes there is euro-centric twist to everything

“bandage up me eye” “yellow sunrise”

Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland
Form:

Themes:

Free verse and 3rd person to 1st person

Inner conflict, national duty, conflict, empathy

Structure:

Compares with:

Six lines per stanza

Poppies, The Prelude, Bayonet Charge

Enjambement

Context:

Language:

Japanese filter pilot suicide mission

“shoals of fishes” “like bunting” “boat safe”

Japanese military flag “sunrise”

“tuna,the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
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Think about poet
Think about date
Literal, simple meaning
Poetic devices
Structure and form
Inconsistencies and deeper meanings
Answer question

Question 2
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Repeat six steps
What are the poets’ points of views?
Is there a hidden meaning?
Effect on reader?



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