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Context for all Power and Conflict poems
Ozymandias- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Written by Shelly in a collection in 1819, it was inspired by the recent unearthing of part of a
large statue of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II
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The reference
to the stone statue is likely a direct reference to the statues and sculptures like the one
which was unearthed, which the ancient Egyptians made
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The innocence poems were often
naïve and simple
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Women had no rights, death rates from disease and
malnutrition were high and the industrial revolution has resulted in many large oppressive
factories
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Extract from the Prelude- William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a romantic poet, he wrote poems about the world we live in which
challenged people and the way they thought at the time
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This extract is from a much larger poem, it looks at the spiritual and moral
development of a man growing up
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The son of a wealthy bank clerk, he didn't
fit in as much in London society, he left the country and went to Italy to marry fellow poet
Elizabeth Barrett because of her over protective father
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The poem is loosely based
on the Duke of Ferrara and is written from his perspective, talking to a messenger about
arranging his next marriage
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Charge of the Light Brigade- Alfred Tennyson
The Crimean war saw British troops fighting in Russia
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However the light brigade were very lightly equipped, more for
scouting or attacking from the back or sides rather than charging straight in
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It showed to the British that even mistakes
can happen
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Some however have criticised the way they blindly followed orders
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Exposure- Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen was a soldier in World War 1
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Owen’s poems were often angry that the soldiers were in
muddy dangerous trenches while the generals behind the lines were living in comfort
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He was no against
fighting, but was angry about the conditions soldiers had to live with in order to do so
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He uses a large number of agricultural
and natural images in his work as metaphors for human nature
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Bayonet Charge- Bayonet Charge
The poem is about a nameless soldier going over the top in the trenches
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It is not clear at the end whether he dies but there is definitely a change in him
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The poet, Ted Hughes, was a former RAF serviceman and includes a great amount of natural
and historical ideas in his poems and he often looks at man’s impact on nature
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The
rest of the poem is looking at the fact the solider, even long after this event, cannot leave
the memory behind and carries this dead man with him in his mind
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Simon Armitage is a famous UK poet who is known for being very direct in his work
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Poppies- Jane Weir
The poem looks at a mother of a son who has grown up and gone to war
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The poem is based very heavily around the idea of Poppies
as memorials and therefore the idea of memory
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The poem also contains a range of emotions
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The poem doesn't seem to comment heavily on the war
itself
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The photo itself is developed using chemicals which slowly bring out the photo, it is then
hung to dry
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The poem is also looking at the contrast between the
war zones and safety of being back home and the way people just do not understand the
truth, after all a single photo cannot show everything
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Tissue- Imtiaz Dharker
A great number of her poems look at issues such as religion, terrorism and global
politics/identity
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The poem remarks how it would be
better not to hold too tightly to that and instead we should be willing to let go
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The poet is looking at this city through the eyes of a child and the happy
memories she had, she compares these to the truths she knows as an adult which is much
harsher
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The poet bases many of the
ideas on modern examples of emigration from countries like Russia or the Middle East
where people are fleeing corruption and tyranny, or those countries change in their absence
to some form of dictatorship
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We look at how history is taught and the conflict between fact and
truths which is sometimes obscured by race or gender
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Noticeably the poet emphasises how we often celebrate our national or cultural
history, without looking at the history and culture of those we were in conflict with
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Kamikaze pilots were expected to use up all their weapons and then
suicide by flying into their targets as a final act of destruction
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The pilot in this poem returns home and is rejected
by his family forever after, his own wife refusing to speak to him
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The narrator explains the events, almost
translating the story, while the speaker gives a first person account of how they excluded
her father
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