GCSE Poetry

Power and Conflict - War Photographer, Remains, London, The Prelude, Kamikaze, Emigree, Storm on the Island, Ozymandias

WP “Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”

Remains “I see every round as it rips through his life.”

WP “A half-formed ghost.”

Remains “End of story, except not really His blood-shadow stays on the street.”

WP “A hundred agonies in black-and-white.”

Remains “His bloody life in my bloody hands.”

VOICE WP: Third person distancing the reader. “The blood stained foreign dust.”

VOICE Remains: First person authentic ordinary person. “Tosses his guts back into his body.”

STRUCTURE WP: sestet stanzas, regular rhyme scheme, war is normal.

STRUCTURE Remains: quatrains, ends on only two lines, unfinished.

London “I wander through each charted street, Near where the charted Thames does flow.”

Prelude “Of sparkling light.” “The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge.”

London “The mind-forged manacles.”

Prelude “I unloosed her chain.”

London “plagues the marriage hearse.”

Prelude “were a trouble to my dreams.”

STRUCTURE London: quatrains, iambic then trochaic, hidden “HEAR”

STRUCTURE Prelude: breaks conventional forms, Romantic Movement, enjambement Line 21.

Kamikaze “Her father embarked at sunrise.”

Emigree “Sunlight-clear.”

Kamikaze “Black crabs.” “The dark prince.”

Emigree “The worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view, the bright, filled paperweight.”

Kamikaze “He must have wondered which had been the better way to die.”

Emigree “my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.”

Ozymandias - Loss, power of humans.

“Nothing beside remains.”

Ozymandias - pride

“King of kings”

Ozymandias - power of nature

“Colossal wreck.”

Storm on the Island - power of nature

“It blows full Blast.”

Storm on the Island - power of nature, humans

“wind dives and strafe invisibly.”

Storm on the Island - power of nature, fear

“We are bombarded by the empty air.” “It is a huge nothing that we fear.”