lit 2 gcse

power and conflict, telling tales

O - quotes

• sneer of cold command

• king of kings

• Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!

• Nothing beside remains

L - quotes

• chartered [in reference to the street]

• Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

• In every [x3] [inafra]

• Mind-forged manacles

• black’ning church

• Runs in blood down palace walls.

• Plagues

SOTI - quites

• We are prepared; we build our houses squat,

• Tragic chorus

• Spits like a tame cat / Turned savage.

• And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo

• Strange, it's a huge nothing that we fear.

• You might think that the sea is company, / Exploding comfortably

The emigree - quotes

• There was once a country…

• Sunlight clear (memory)

• Like a hollow doll (vocab)

• It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; / I comb its hair and love its shining eyes. / My city takes me dancing through the city

• My city hides behind me. / They mutter death, / and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.

COTLB quotes

• valley of death

• Theirs not / Theirs but to do and die [inafra]

• Flash’d [light imagery]

• Honour the charge the made! / Honour the Light Brigade

E - quotes

• But nothing happens [learn meanings for each one]

• Dawn massing … melancholy army

• Dawn massing… shivering ranks in grey

• Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

• ghosts [reference to themselves - the soldiers]

• half known faces. All their eyes are ice

BC - quotes

• Suddenly

• raw

• lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

• Cold clockwork

• terror’s touchy dynamite

• King, honour, human dignity etcetera

R - quotes

• probably armed, possibly not

• tosses his guts

• blood-shadow

• drink and the drugs won't flush him out

• bloody life in my bloody hands

WP - quotes

• spools of suffering

• All flesh is grass

• Half formed ghost

• reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers

• impassively [he stares impassively]

• Priest preparing to intone a mass

• He has a job to do

T - quotes

• lets the light/ shine through

• smoothed and stroked and turned [paper]

• might fly out lives like paper kites

• raise a structure / never meant to last

• living tissue

• how easily / they fall away on a sigh

• capitals and monoliths

• turned into your skin

COMH quotes

• Dem tell me

• Bandage … / Blind me

• see-far woman / of mountain dream

• yellow sunrise / to the dying [references Mary Seacole]

• I carving out me identity

Power of man

ozymandias

Power of institutions

• London

• COMH

• Tissue

Transience

• Ozymandias

• Tissue

Suffering

• Remains

• War photographer

• COTLB

• Bayonet Charge

• Exposure

• London

Nature

• Oxymandias

• Bayonet Charge

• Tissue

Identity

• COMH

• Tissue

• Prelude

• The Emigree

Effects of war

• Remains

• COTLB

• Bayonet Charge

• War Photographer

• Exposure

O - structure

structure

• sonnet

  • love poem

    • ozymandias’ love for himself

    • love for nature

• irregular rhyme scheme

  • lack of control + irregularity of power

L - structure

• ABAB rhyme scheme

  • repetitiveness reflects the relentless and inescapable suffering in the city

• iambic tetrameter

  • further emphasises repetitive life

    • oppressively repetitive

  • except line 4 and stanza 3

    • reflects weakness of those suffering

COTLB - Structure

• 6 stanzas- represent the 600 lives

• Dactylic dimeter

  • mimics horses galloping

  • driving beat

E - Structure

• 5 line stanzas

  • represents the repetitive and never-ending nature of war

• broken ABBAC rhyme scheme (pararhyme)

  • cycle gradually gets worse as the scheme deteriorates like the men in the war

BC - structure

• irregular rhythm - reflects the inpredictable nature of war

• caesura ‘santuary in mid-stride. Then the shot-slashed furrows‘

  • gives reader time to process

  • sudden play with time - emphasises shots after

• enjambment

  • over flowing sentences show the speaker is trying to express too much emotion on a single line

  • quickens pace of poem

R - structure

• 2 part structure

  • 1st: focussed on past event

  • 2nd: focused on aftermath of event

WP - structure

• ABBCDD rhyme scheme

  • reflects photographer’s futile attempt to establish order in a chaotic and distressing situation

T - structure

• enjambment

  • shows the speaker is attempting to reflect the poets desire for freedom

  • reflects the lack of control humans have compared to nature - overflows

COMH - structure

• dual structure

  • creol —> free verse/lyricism

chemistry quotes

• invisible cord

• the motor cut

• pouncing

• barked

• you see, he liked his food

• sad symmetry

• delicate equilibrium

• naything can change, even gold can change

• you dont make curry anymore

• youre ruining our meal - do you want to take yours to the shed?!

• lorded

• tucking into bigger and bigger meals

• big lurching frame

• trapped and helpless

• lost the will to eat

• unstoppable, unsinkable, along that invisible line

OOC quotes

• their faces were hidden from eachother

• i canna see

• it was chrysanthemums when I married him, and chrysanthemums when you were born, and the first time they ever brought him home drunk he’d got brown chrysanthemums in his buttonhole

• heart burst with anger

• elizabeth’s thoughts were busy elsewhere

• don’t waken th’ children

• who am I? what have I been doing?

• man

• what are you shouting about? go to sleep at once - theres nothing -

• unreal gentleness

korea - quotes

• the boy tore at his tunic over the heart, as if to pluck out the bullets […] pitched forward on his face

• the other heeled quietly over on his back

• draw fingers across his face as if to tear a spider web away.

• I was weary of the big words. they were not his own voice

• in the smell of shit and piss and the warm fleshy smell of worms crawling in too little clay.

• hed scrape the fare, id be conscripted there, each month hed get so many dollars while I served, and hed get ten thousand if I was killed

• without lifting his eyes

• id never felt so close to him before

AFS - quotes

• particularly proud of the pure samurai blood

• large stony jar

• furious black eyebrows

• a man of principle

• harly a skill im proud of

• taking unnecessarily theatrical puffs on her cigarette

• I see […] oh perfectly

• too busy perhaps […] perhap