Summary ALL POEMS ANALYSIS + COMPARISONS AQA English Literature Poetry - Power and Conflict
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Course
English
Institution
GCSE
AQA English Literature Poetry - Power and Conflict from a Grade 9 student.
Parts included:
1- Comparisons
2 - OZYMANDIUS
3– LONDON
4– PRELUDE (EXTRACT)
5– MY LAST DUCHESS
6– CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
7– EXPOSURE
8– STORM ON THE ISLAND
9– BAYONET CHARGE
10– REMAINS
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1. Effect of conflict
On those fighting
- Charge of the light brigade : death
- Remains : traumatised
On those not fighting
- Poppies: loss + painful
- War photographer: painful experience
2. Identity
Family identity
- Poppies : torn from family , distanced
National Identity and patriotism
- Checking out me History; identity too shaped by British national
identity
- Kamikaze: National identity important in war: tension between
family and national identity
3. Individual experiences
Conflict leaves people isolated
- Bayonet Charge; alone and insignificant in painful experience
- War photographer: isolation in both settings
- The emigree : alone in new place ‘they they’
- Remains; one soldier struggles alone
Individuals have unique experiences of places
- London: isolates speaker from suffering h sees: he can truly see
the suffering that they can’t (mind forged manacles)
- The prelude; event has left him alone feeling insignificant when
compared to nature
4. Reality of conflict
Conflict causes loss of people or places
- Poppies: loss of son = terrible
- The Emigrée: loss of previous culture and true home
, - Kamikaze; loss of family forced by expectations and conflict
People without power = hopeless
- London : young people suffering
- Exposure : dejected and hopeless
Horror of war as it happens
- Exposure: dejected, accepted their death
- Bayonet charge: violent imagery + pain of nature disillusions him
Horror of war after it happened
- COFTLB : frightening picture of battle to glorify them
- Remains: war forces people to make morally complicated decision
in the spur of the moment which have long lasting, remaining
affects
5. Memory
Memories haunting effect
- Remains : haunted psychologically
- War photographer: haunting memories triggered by dark room:
terrible
Memories can be described vividly/unreliably
- The emigree: strongly remembers fond memories of childhood, but
not the bad
- Kamikaze; pilot’s idyllic memories turned him
6. Negative emotions (anger, guilt, fear, pride)
Angry aimed at society
- London; angry about suffering allowed by institutions of power
- CHecking out me history; angry for biassed education
Guilt due to war
- Remains; psychological guilt
- War photographer: guilt of insensitivity, but also duty to show world
7. Power of Humans
Human abuse of power
- My last duchess: obsessed with power and control, even though
unreasonable
, - Checking out me history: one sided education due to historical
abuse in mind (slavery and european colonisation)
Human power is temporary
- Ozymandias: power is transitory
- Tissue; human power are fragile : impermanent
8. Power of Nature
Nature as an enemy
- Exposure: men expecting to die from elements not from gunfire
- Storm on the Island: islands fear nature
Nature’s effect on humans
- Kamikaze : effect on pilot, powerful
- Prelude: sublime nature of nature long lasting effect on him
, Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes
Context
- Ted Hughes
- Not 1st hand = interviewed
- Father was 1/17 Lancaster Fusiliers to survive the Gallipoli
campaign ⇒ emotionally traumatised
- Highlight brutality + memorialise war
- Poem from collection ‘The Hawk in the Rain’
- Real and symbolic lives of animals
- First collection + inspired by Wilfred Owen ⇒ depicted reality of war
- Similar to owen’s Spring offensive
Perspective
- 3rd person singular
- Individual impact of war
- Isolation felt by soldiers from any help/confort ⇒ intensify suffering
- Focus on emotions : ironic (soldiers expected to show no emotions)
Structure
- Chaotic structure : mirrors chaos of war
- Frequent enjambment and caesura, combined with enjoyment and complex
imagery
- Media res : confusion
Quotes
First stanza
‘Suddenly he awoke’
- Media res
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