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Poetry anthology: power and conflict

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Notas de aula

What the cluster covers

  • Scope: AQA 8702 Power and Conflict overview. The cluster has fifteen poems; other boards differ. Revise every set poem alongside this comparison overview.
  • Shelley: Ozymandias; Blake: London; Wordsworth: extract from The Prelude; Robert Browning: My Last Duchess; Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade.
  • Owen: Exposure; Heaney: Storm on the Island; Hughes: Bayonet Charge; Armitage: Remains; Weir: Poppies.
  • Duffy: War Photographer; Dharker: Tissue; Rumens: The Émigree; Agard: Checking Out Me History; Garland: Kamikaze.

Power takes different forms

Power takes different formsConnectionExamples to investigateAuthority andcontrolOzymandias; London; My Last DuchessNature andperceptionPrelude extract; Exposure; Storm onthe IslandWar and itsaftermathRemains; Poppies; War PhotographerIdentity andbelongingChecking Out Me History; The Émigree

Key ideas

  • Nature and perception: Storm on the Island develops an unseen threat; Exposure personifies hostile weather; the Prelude extract changes a boat journey into troubling awe. Examine how confidence or expectation changes.
  • Authority and control: Ozymandias sets a ruler’s lost dominance beside surviving art; London exposes suffering and constraint; My Last Duchess reveals a Duke’s possessiveness through a dramatic monologue. Tissue can question the apparent permanence of human systems through fragile material.
  • War and memory: The Charge of the Light Brigade honours soldiers while acknowledging a command failure. Bayonet Charge presents fear and disorientation. Remains and War Photographer examine the persistence of violent memories. Poppies explores separation through a mother’s voice without explicitly confirming her son’s death.
  • Identity and belonging: Checking Out Me History resists selective education. The Émigree develops an idealised remembered place under pressure; the location is not named. Kamikaze explores a returning pilot’s social rejection through a daughter’s reconstruction, leaving parts of his experience uncertain.

Whose version do we hear?

Whose version do we hear?PoemPerspective to examineMy Last DuchessA controlling Duke’s self-presentationKamikazeA daughter’s reconstructed accountPoppiesA mother’s experience of separationThe ÉmigreeAn idealised memory of an unnamed place

Writing about poems

  • Answer the comparison question with a precise connection and a meaningful difference. Use selected evidence to connect language, form and structure to interpretation. There is no required ideas-then-methods-then-effects paragraph order.
  • Use context where it explains a choice; distinguish the poet, speaker and subject. A poem can contain several concerns, and a symbolic or emotional reading needs local evidence. This overview does not replace study of all fifteen poems.

A precise comparison can change direction

A precise comparison can change directionQuestionEvidence to developHow is powerexercised?Words, actions and institutionsHow is it challenged?Resistance, irony or changedperceptionWhat remainsafterwards?Memory, art, trauma or exclusionHow do the methodsdiffer?Voice, form and structuraldevelopment

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  1. 1.What does 'conflict' mean in these poems?

    Easy
    • Awar, political or social struggle, and conflict within people
    • Bpeace
    • Ca party
    • Da story only

  2. 2.Who wrote Ozymandias?

    Easy
    • ABlake
    • BTennyson
    • CHeaney
    • DShelley

  3. 3.Which poem is about a charge during the Crimean War?

    Easy
    • ATissue
    • BLondon
    • CThe Charge of the Light Brigade
    • DOzymandias

  4. 4.Which poem describes soldiers in freezing weather?

    Easy
    • AThe Emigrée
    • BExposure
    • COzymandias
    • DTissue

  5. 5.What does 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' show?

    Easy
    • Athe ruler's arrogance
    • Bhumility
    • Ckindness
    • Dfear

  6. 6.What does the poem London criticise?

    Easy
    • Athe monarchy’s rightful authority is beyond criticism
    • Bwar abroad
    • Cnature
    • Dpoverty and oppression in the city

  7. 7.What does the image of manacles do in Blake’s phrase about mental constraint?

    Easy
    • Acompares two things using like
    • Bimitates the sound of a closing lock
    • Cuses physical imprisonment as a metaphor for restriction of the mind
    • Dliterally describes a named prisoner’s handcuffs

  8. 8.What does Storm on the Island suggest about nature?

    Easy
    • Ait is helpful
    • Bit is a powerful, unpredictable threat
    • Cit is gentle
    • Dit is boring

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