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Poetry Power and Conflict AQA GCSE revision notes
Deep analysis of each poem from the Power and Conflict section of the Poem Anthology in the Literature exam used by a Grade 9 student
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CTURERegular rhyme schemeRY -
Percy Shelley contrasts with the
single
1) A traveller saw a broken statue in the middle of the desert stanza
2) It was
Ozymandias (the Eyptian pharaoh Rameses II Suggests a lack of
power and
Those
3) with power believe it's supreme, invincible and everlasting control of the ruler whereas
4) Percy showed it didn't last through Power of Art and Nature the single stanza
suggests
order
NEMrey
"These contrasts could reflect
was a romantic how different people view war
↳He was
strongly anti-monarchy, anti-religion and disliked opression of and conflict as either beneficial
ordinary people or detrimental to society
↳
Ramesses It was remembered for his tyranny, military exploits and for his 4 Sonnet form
defeat Usually used in love poems
II
↳Written during the
reign of King George who had
reigned longer than thus implies those in power
also remembered for his military
any king before who was conflicts, opression are in love with themselves
and tyranny. 13 colonies had rebelled
against him >Changes from Petrarchan
and Shakespearean sonnets
THEMES shows all power gives way to
4 Power 4 Power of Art new power & nothing lasts
Pride (Uselessness
↳
"futility forever
↳ Power of nature
LANGUAGE Also emphasises emptiness, that remembered
nothing was of him
↳ "boundless and bare" or "lone and level"
Use of alliteration communicates the vast, powerful extent of nature and it's ability to outlive all other forms of
power and deem them insignificant by comparison
↳ "Cold commands"
The consonance
suggests a use of power for military aims with no emotion, empathy or compassion and his
harsh
The reptition of the harsh"c"sound reflects the callous lack of compassion the king had for his subjects& nature
↳ "Wrinkled" "shattered" "frown" "sunk"
Negative semantic field making the reader more receptive to ideas about corruption of power & pride
Even the statue is personified & described as
sneering, cold and mocking
↳
"a shattered visage"
↳
A of irony of
sense an
egotisticle king being forgotten
, -RY
1) Blake wondered through the streets of London's streets and
William Blake
-
witnessed it's monstrosities
2) The poem is a critique of power, exposing distance between rich
NTEXT during the Romantic Literary eras) Suffering
and poor
is enscapable due to misuse power by
of those in control
4 Blake lived in London mostof his life but saw it
as
corrupted by greed & STRUCTURE
inequality
- The
poem was published during the "reign of terror" ↳ Dramatic monologue
↳Uses
1
4
where
Written
Blake hoped the
England monarchy
industrial revolution & London
would end
↳ simple language
Blake
in an almostconversational
during the was wanted to feel accessible to all members of
covered in
smog from factories and industrialisation society
4
This was in a poetry collection thatacted as a Also makes the poem personal ofhis experience
companion piece to
"songs of Innocence" which of London and his home and views
exposed the corruption and
suffering of the new
↳
Cyclical structure
↳ The
changed world and social issues like
poverty first/second stanzas focus on
impacton people,
the third explores the & the4th
source of
suffering
IANGUAGE back to the
again
impact
↳
"marriage hearse" Suggests suffering is never ending
!
↓ ↑
Ajuxtaposing phrase connotations
which contrast of Implies to the reader thatthey will keep suffering
and the joy ofmarriage with the until break the cycle and rebel
new
beginnings grief they againstsociety
like the french did
of a life ending during the revolution
Social criticism of how marriage was like death for woment Jambic tetrameter
Blake was in favour of liberating women and saw
The u se of this shows order and control
constant
abuse itprovides relentless
marriage as an of power as a sense of the
oppression
↳ "In
every" "every"
4 Consistent rhyme scheme and stanza length
4
This phrase repeated
· This fixed the sense
is an
example ofanaphora structure enhances of complete
·Emphasises the extreme extento f
suffering (literary crescendo) control and oppression which could mimic the
↳
"Chartered Thames does flow" way he feels lower class are
trapped inLondon
↳
Juxtaposition "flow"implying freedom
of and "chartered" ownership THEMES
-
↳ "mind forged manacles" 4 freedom & restriction
1
i suggeststhesuffering ofLondoncitizenshasbecomeinternaliserestrictions 4
↳
Class system
Corruption
"Manacles"associated with slavery & lack freedom
of ↳ Childhood
Physically free butenslaved by concepts 4 Urban life
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