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GCSE English Literature AQA Power and Conflict Poetry revision document containing full key quotation lists, theme summaries and context summaries.
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Power and Conflict PoetryThemes:
1. Memory
2. Loss
3. Abuse
4. Control
5. Power of nature
6. Power of man
7. Effects of conflict
8. Reality of conflict
9. Life and death
10. Sacrifice
11. Identity
12. Individual experiences
13. Anger
14. Guilt
15. Fear
16. Pride
1. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (1818)
2. William Blake, London (1794)
3. William Wordsworth, Extract from The Prelude (1798-1850)
4. Robert Browning, My Last Duchess (1842)
5. Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
6. Wilfred Owen, Exposure (1917)
7. Seamus Heaney, Storm on the Island (1966)
8. Ted Hughes, Bayonet Charge (1957)
9. Simon Armitage, Remains (2008)
10. Jane Weir, Poppies (2009)
11. Carol Ann Duffy, War Photographer (1985)
12. Imtiaz Dharker, Tissue (2006)
13. Carol Rumens, The Émigrée (1993)
14. Beatrice Garland, Kamikaze (2013)
15. John Agard, Checking Out Me History (2007)
OZYMANDIAS
Context -
Romanticism:
- shelley=romantic poet
- Movement in opposition of industrialisation
- Focuses on emotion over science, power of nature, individualism
, Ramses II:
- Ramses ii = pharaoh
- Given Greek name ozymandias - shelley strips memory and fame here
- Powerful pharaoh, slave labour
King George 3:
- Written during george 3 reign
- Some see as ozymandias as allegory for george 3 as shelley was radical romanticist
and opposed monarchy (inspired by french revolution)
- George 3 = oppressive, tyranny, military focus
Quotes - “two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“I am Ozymandias, King of Kings.Look on me works, ye Mighty and despair!”
“Sneer of cold command”
“Nothing besides remains.”
Structure - petrarchan sonnet blended with shakespearean sonnet - sonnet = love poem
- Irregular rhyme scheme
- Single stanza
1,4,5,6,16
LONDON
Context:
- Blake lives in london most of his life - sees corruption of the city
- Romantic poet - supports gender equality (considered radical), christian but opposes
organised religion - church=corrupt
- Hopeful - wanted to use poetry to inspire change
French revolution:
- Published during reign of terror that followed french revolution and execution of louis
16 in 1793
- Blake is anti-monarchy, wants revolution in england
Industrial revolution:
- England becoming more industrial, urbanisation
- Factories cause smog in streets, crowded, bad conditions
- Chartered = wealthy are given rights to previously public land, wealthy begin to
monopolise ownership
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