AQA English - QUOTES Power and Conflict Poetry

Ozymandias: Which quote portrays the King’s arrogance and pomposity?

“King of Kings!”

“Ye mighty, and Despair!”

Ozymandias: Which quote portrays the fact he has failed as a ruler?

“Nothing beside remains.”

“The lone and level sands stretch.”

Ozymandias: Which quote portrays the fact that his work may of been incomplete?

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.”

Ozymandias: Which quote portrays that the statue’s artist is ridiculing the king?

“The hand that mocked them.”

London: Which quote portrays the corruption after the industrial revolution?

“Every black’ning church”

“The youthful harlot’s curse.”

London: Which quote portrays how isolated and trapped Londoners feel?

“The mind-forged manacles I hear.”

London: Which quote portrays the sad and tired atmosphere?

“Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”

“How the chimney sweepers cry.”

My Last Duchess: Which quote portrays the Duke’s arrogance and jealousy?

“…For me!”

“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name.”

“Officious fool!”

My Last Duchess: Which quote portrays the Duke’s pride of the painting?

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall.”

“Will’t please you sit and look at her?”

My Last Duchess: Which quote portrays the Duke’s darker intentions?

“Then all smiles stopped together.”

My Last Duchess: Which quote portrays the Duchess’ gratitude?

“A heart too soon made glad, too easily impressed.”

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Which quote emphasises the number of lives lost?

“Rode the six hundred.”

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Which quote portrays how far they had to travel?

“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward.”

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Which quote portrays their sense of duty?

“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”

“Into the jaws of Death.”

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Which quote portrays that this poem is a piece of propaganda?

“When can their glory fade?”

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Which quote portrays the people marvelling at their bravery?

“All the world wonder’d.”

Bayonet Charge: Which quote portrays the fear that has overridden his patriotism?

“The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye.”

“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera.”

Bayonet Charge: Which quote portrays the consequences of war for both nature and for man?

“A yellow hare that rolled like a flame.”

Bayonet Charge: Which quote portrays the fact that he’s been reduced to a mere weapon driven by his terror?

“His terror’s touchy dynamite.”

Bayonet Charge: Which quote portrays the soldier’s sudden thoughts in the middle stanza?

“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations, was he the hand pointing that second?”

Remains: Which quote portrays the soldier’s sense of doubt?

“Probably armed, possibly not.”

Remains: Which quote portrays the soldier’s sense of responsibility?

“All three of us open fire.”

“His bloody life in my bloody hands.”

Remains: Which quote portrays the solider thoughts that he’s fighting on the wrong side?

“I see broad daylight on the other side.”

Remains: Which quote portrays the contrast between the narrator and his companions?

“Tosses his guts back into his body. Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry.”

Remains: Which quote portrays the PTSD the soldier faces?

“But I blink.”

“End of story, except not really.”

“The drink and the drugs won’t flush him out.”

“He bursts again through the doors.”

Poppies: Which quote symbolises the absence of her son?

“The dove pulled freely against the sky.”

“Released a song bird from it’s cage.”

“Hoping to hear your playground voice.”

Poppies: Which quote portrays her hope that her son returns safely?

“Leaned against it like a wishbone.”

Poppies: Which quote portrays the mother’s sense of touch?

“I wanted to graze my nose.”

“I traced the inscriptions.”

War Photographer: Which quote references the famous photograph of the young girl running during the Vietnam War?

“Running children in a nightmare heat.”

War Photographer: Which quote portrays the effects of the conflict on the photographer?

“His hands, which did not tremble then seem to now.”

War Photographer: Which quote portrays the effects of conflict through the photograph?

“A half-formed ghost.”

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

War Photographer: Which quote portrays his actions at the time of the conflict that he now regrets?

“How he sought approval to do what someone must.”

War Photographer: Which quote portrays the fragility of human life?

“All flesh is grass.”

War Photographer: Which quote leaves a powerful message to the reader?

“And they do not care.”

Kamikaze: Which quote portrays the pilot’s Japanese heritage?

“A samurai sword.”

Kamikaze: Which quote portrays the power of nature on the Kamikaze pilot?

“Fishing boats strung out like bunting.”

“In a figure of eight.”

“The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun.”

Kamikaze: Which quote portrays the shunning the pilot received when he returned?

“Nor did she meet his eyes.”

“To live as though he never returned.”

Kamikaze: Which quote portrays the oblivious perspectives of the children?

“And though he came back.”

“Only we children still chattered and laughed, till gradually we too learned.”

Kamikaze: Which quote suggests he’s been manipulated into believing in the glory of dying in war?

“A shaven head full of powerful incantations.”

“One-way journey into history.”