Studied by 0 peopleWhat conflict is the Charge Of The Light Brigade?
Crimean War
When was COTLB published?
1854
Who wrote COTLB?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is the form of COTLB?
Narrative poem (ballad)
What is the rhyme / rhythm of COTLB?
Insistent rhythm
Key Quotes of COTLB?
︎“Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward”
“Rode the / Noble six hundred”
“Into the jaws of Death…into the mouth of Hell”
What is the confict of Vitai Lampada?
British Empire, colonialism
When was Vitai Lampada published?
1892
Who wrote Vitai Lampada?
Sir Henry Newbolt
What is the form of Vitai Lampada?
Three Octaves
What is the rhyme / rhythm of Vitai Lampada?
Alternate rhyme
Key quotes of Vitai Lampada?
“A bumping pitch and a blinding light”
“The sand of the Desert is sodden red”
“Play up! Play up! And play the game!”
What is the conflict of the man he killed (MHK)?
Boer War
When was MHK published?
1902
Who wrote MHK?
Thomas Hardy
What is the form of MHK?
Dramatic monologue
What is the rhyme/rhythm of MHK?
Alternate rhyme
Key quotes of MHK?
“sat us down to wet/ Right many a nipperkin!”
“because he was my foe, / Just so: my foe of course he was”
“You shoot a fellow down / You’d treat if met where any bar is”
Conflict of Who’s for the game?
World war 1
When was WFTG published?
1915 (Daily Mail)
Who wrote WFTG?
Jessie Pope
What is the form of WFTG?
Question/answer,
brave/ coward
What is the rhyme/rhythm of WFTG?
Alternate rhyme / Anapests
Key Quotes of WFTG?
“the red crashing game of a fight?”
“Your country is up to her neck in a fight / And she’s looking and calling for you”
Conflict of Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.) (1917)?
World war 1
When was EM published?
1917
Who wrote EM?
Eleanor Farjeon
What is the form of EM?
Atypical sonnet
What is the rhyme / rhythm of EM?
Iambic pentameter
Key quotes of EM?
“last letter…You thanked me for the silver Easter egg”
“It was such a lovely morning”
“In our garden / We sowed our earliest seeds… the apple-bud was ripe”
Conflict in Anthem for Doomed Youth?
Ww1
When was AFDY published?
1917
Who wrote AFDY?
Wilfred Owen
What is the form of AFDY?
Petrarchan sonnet
What is the rhyme / rhythm of AFDY?
Alternate, Alternate, Enclosed, rhyming couplets
Key quotes of AFDY?
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”
“stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle”
“demented choirs of wailing shells”
Conflict of An Irish Airman Foresees His Death?
World war one
When was AIAFHD published?
1919
Who wrote AIAFHD ?
W.B Yeats
What is the form of AIAFHD?
Dramatic monologue
What is the rhyme/rhythm of AIAFHD?
Alternate rhyme scheme
Key quotes of AIAFHD?
“I know that I shall meet my fate/ Somewhere among the clouds”
“My country is Kiltartan Cross / My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor”
“Nor law, nor duty bade me fight”
Conflict of What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) (WLMLHK)?
With society (1920s flapper)
When was WLMLHK published?
1920
Who wrote WLMLHK?
Edna St Vincent Millay
What is the form of WLMLHK?
Sonnet
What is the rhyme / rhythm of WLMLHK?
Enclosed / irregular rhyme
Key quotes of WLMLHK?
“what arms have lain”
“the rain/ Is full of ghosts tonight”
“summer sang in me / A little while, than in me sings no more.”
Conflict of Vergissmeinnicht (Verg)?
World war 2
When was Verg published?
1943
Who wrote Verg?
Keith Douglas
What is the form of Verg?
Dramatic monologue
What is the rhyme/rhythm of Verg?
Irregular rhyme and rhythm
Key Quotes of Verg?
“Look. Here the gunpit spoil / the dishonoured picture of his girl”
“mocked at by his own equiptment / that’s hard and good when he’s decayed”
“the burst stomach like a cave”
Conflict of Bayonet Charge?
World war one
When was BC published?
1957
Who wrote BC?
Ted Hughes
What is the form of BC?
Three stanzas
What is the rhyme/ rhythm of BC?
Free verse
Key quotes of BC?
“Suddenly he awoke”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air- / He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
“Threw up a yellow hare”
Conflict of Requiem for the Croppies (RFTC)?
Irish Rebellion (1798)
When was RFTC published?
1962
Who wrote RFTC?
Seamus Heaney
What is the form of RFTC?
Sonnet (features of both)
What is the rhyme / rhythm of RFTC?
Alternate rhyme (slant)
Key quotes of RFTC?
“We moved quick and sudden in our own country.”
“Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at the cannon.”
“And in August…the barley grew up out of our grave.”
Conflict of Mametz Wood (MW)?
World war one (somme)
When was MW published?
2005
Who wrote MW?
Owen Sheers
What is the form of MW?
3-line stanzas
What is the rhyme / rhythm of MW?
No regular rhyme or rhythm
Key quotes of MW?
“even now the earth stands sentinel, / reaching back into itself for reminders”
“a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm”
“skeletons paused mid danse-macabre”
Conflict of Last Post (LP)?
World war 1 (Afghanistan)
When was Last Post published?
2009
Who wrote LP?
Carol Ann Duffy
What is the form of LP?
Free verse
What is the rhyme / rhythm of LP?
Iambic, irregular lines/rhyme
(Internal rhyme)
Key quotes of LP?
“If poetry could tell it backwards”
“Dulce - No-Decorum-No-Pro patria mori”
“Harry, Tommy,Wilfred,Edward,Bert”
Conflict in Poppies?
Universal war (Afghanistan)
When was Poppies published?
2005
Who wrote Poppies?
Jane Weir
What is the form of Poppies?
Dramatic monologue
What is the rhyme / rhythm of Poppies?
Free verse
Key quotes of Poppies?
“Before you left,” /”A split second”
“stomach busy / making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less”
“released a song bird from its cage”
“I traced the inscription”
What is the conflict in Out of the Blue -12 (OOTB)?
9/11
When was OOTB published?
2008
Who wrote OOTB?
Simon Armitage
What is the form of OOTB?
Dramatic monologue
What is the rhyme / rhythm of OOTB?
Free verse
Key Quotes of OOTB?
“You have picked me out.”
“a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning”
“Does anyone see / a soul worth saving?”
“Do you see me, my love. I am failing, flagging.”
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