This is great revision material of the GCSE Poetry Anthology: Power and Conflict. There are mind maps on each key theme of the anthology, links between the poems to help compare them in the exam and key context on the poems.
AQA GCSE English Section B: Power a
nd Conflict Poetry Anthology - PMT
English Literature
GCSE 2021 Playlist
,War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy - AQA English GCSE Poetry: Power and Conflict
Poetry Anthology:
Power and Conflict
AQA 'Power and Conflict' Poetry
,Power and Conflict Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge
Simon Armitage - Remains
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
Jane Weir - Poppies
William Blake - London
Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer
William Wordsworth - The Prelude
Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
Carol Rumens - The Emigrée
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of
the Light Brigade John Agard - Checking Out Me History
War Photographer Charge of the Light Brigade
“Someone had Sense of duty (to other people) “How he sought
blunder’d” In Charge of the light brigade, Tennyson shows that the approval without
“Theirs not to make
soldiers feel a sense of duty to their leaders which is shownwords to do what
reply, Theirs not to
in the reported speech: “Forward, the Light Brigade!” someone must.”
reason why, Theirs but
to do and die.” Likewise, Duffy shows that the photographer feels a sense “His editor will pick
of duty towards the victims of war he documents. out five or six for
Sunday’s
supplement.”
Glorification of death
Tennyson glorifies war through the gran religious imagery
in “Into the valley of death”. Contrastingly, in War
Photographer, the harsh reality of war is shown in the
description of “running children in a nightmare heat” and
“Honour the charge
they made! Honour “blood stained into foreign dust.” “Spools of suffering.”
the Light Brigade, “A hundred agonies
Noble six hundred!” in black and white.”
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