Anthology poetryKey quotes

Poems studied:

Ozymandias London The Prelude: stealing the boat My Last Duchess The Charge of the Light Brigade Exposure Storm on the Island Bayonet Charge Remains Poppies War Photographer Tissue The emigree Kamikaze Checking Out Me History My Last Duchess

Key methods:

Imagery: metaphors and similes Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs Repetition Narrator Rhetorical questions Lexical Field

Key specific themes:

Nature Corruption Pride Pain Love Past War Suffering Death

Key general themes:

Emotions Conflict Power

How to best prepare

Be realistic

This pack contains key quotes form each poem, but be realistic about how many you will try to remember. You should all aim for at least 5. How you do you select which five? Metaphors is a key technique so start there; likewise, making sure that you select the quotes that you feel comfortable linking to the poet’s key idea (i.e. the themes).

Tasks

1). Read through the pack and for each poem, complete the box at the bottom on key ideas (try to do this from memory initially, but you can refer to your notes of you get stuck)

2). Highlight the quotes you are going to learn (remember you have your tracker sheets, where you’ve already selected your three favourite quotes. Don’t be disheartened if they’re not in this booklet – go with quotes that you feel confident with!)

3). Regular testing. This is the crucial part, testing yourself frequently on these (it doesn’t take long using the ‘Missing word’ PowerPoints). You can make a copy of these and then edit them to the ones that you will memorise.

Regular testing:

1). Use ‘missing word PowerPoints’

2). Pick a poem and write down key quotes

3). Create mock exams and practise planning

REMEMBER:

You are given a copy of the named poem in the exam The examiner will be realistic about how many quotes you will be able to remember (i.e.

that 60% of your analysis will be on the named poem, with the remaining 40% on your selected poem)

The question will give you options: for example, if you are asked to compare the theme of power, there are many poems to choose from, so pick one you’re confident with

There are certain poems that you should spend more time on, because they cover a range of themes and therefore can be used for a large number of questions:

Ozymandias London Exposure Bayonet Charge War Photographer The emigree Checking Out Me History

Poem: Ozymandias

Themes: Power / Corruption / Pride / Past

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Trunkless legs

Antique land

Shattered visage (face) lies

Sneer of cold command

“King of Kings” (said by Ozymandias, engraved on his statue)

Colossal wreckModifiers: adjectives and adverbs Boundless and bare

Repetition

Narrator 1st person

Layered narrative (the narrator is telling a story that he has been told)

‘Nothing beside remains’ Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field

Poem: London

Themes: Power / Corruption / Pain / Suffering

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes In every face I met, marks of weariness,

marks of woe

Mind-forged manacles

Soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls

Plagues the marriage hearseModifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition ‘In every’

Narrator First person – witnesses people around him and appauled at the pain affecting all by corrupted power (church and politics)

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field PAIN: weakness, woe, cry, fear, blood, curse, tear, plague, hearse

Poem: The Prelude: stealing the boat My Last Duchess

Themes: Nature / Power

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Small circles glittering idly in the

moon…melted

Silent lake

(boat) like a swan

The horizon’s utmost boundary

(Mountain): strode after me

Over my thoughts there hung a huge darkness

Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs (mountain) huge peak, black and huge

Repetition Calm: I dipped my oars in the silent lake

Intimidated: trembling oars…and through the silent water stole my way

Narrator 1st person – his experience

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field Beauty (start): LIGHT: Moon, sparkling light, glittering, stars

Intimidation (second half): DARK: dim, darkness, solitude

Poem: The Charge of the Light Brigade

Themes: Pride (positive!) / Death / War

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Valley of death

Jaws of death

Mouth of hell

Stormed at (by the enemy)Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs Noble 600

Repetition Rode the 600

(towards end): rode back, but not 600

Canon to the left/right/infront

Valley of death

Stormed atNarrator 3rd person – prevents arrogance

Speaks directly to read: Honour the Light Brigade!

Does include captain’s direct voiceRhetorical questions Was there a man dismayed? (no!)

When can their glory fade?Lexical Field

Poem: Exposure

Themes: War / Death / Pain / Suffering / Nature / Power

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Merciless iced wind that knives us

Mad gusts tugging on the wire

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air

Crusted dark-red jewels…we turn back to our dying

God's invincible spring our love is made afraid

All their (dead soliders’) eyes are iceModifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition But nothing happens

Narrator 1st person as he fought on the front line – this is his story

Rhetorical questions What are we doing here?

Lexical Field

Poem: Storm on the island

Themes: Nature / Power

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Leaves and branches can raise a tragic

chorus

(Sea): Exploding comfortably…spits like a tame cat turned savage

it is a huge nothing that we fearModifiers: adjectives and adverbs Exploding comfortably…spits like a tame

cat turned savage

Repetition

Narrator 1st person: uses inclusive ‘we’ (for island community), and also direct address (you)

ENDING: it is a huge nothing that we fearRhetorical questions

Lexical Field Military: strafes, salvo, bombarded

Poem: Bayonet Charge

Themes: War / Corruption / Suffering

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Dazzled with rifle fire

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

Patriotic tear...like molten iron

Listening…for the reason of his running

King, honour, human diginity…dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm

His terrors touchy dynamiteModifiers: adjectives and adverbs (opening): Suddenly, he awoke and was

running

In bewilderment then he almost stoppedRepetition

Narrator Third person to create sympathy and to SLOW the pace in the middle stanza (reflects on why he is even there)

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field

Poem: Remains

Themes: Death / Pain / Suffering / Past / War

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes (robber) legs it up the road

All of the same mind, all open fire

(the bullet) rips through his life

(the robber is) sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony

(another guard) tosses his guts back in his body

His blood shadow stays

He’s here in my head

His bloody life in my handsModifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition All of the same mind, all open fire

Doubt: probably armed, possibly notNarrator 1st person as his experience; includes

informal language – make sit sound like he’s telling his story directly to the reader

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field MILITARY: enemy lines, desert, guts

Poem: Poppies

Themes: War / (potential) Death / Suffering / Fear / Family

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Like we did when you were little

(son’s perspective) the world overflowing like a treasure chest

Released a song bird from its cage

My stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats

Leaned against it (war memorial), like a wishbone

Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition

Narrator 1st person – mother: ‘I was brave’

IMPORTANT: she can’t say/show her fear to her son, so contains it and then releases it via this poem

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field INJURY: spasms, bandaged, graze

CARE: smoothed

Poem: War Photographer

Themes: Corruption (media) / war / Pain / Suffering / Death

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Spools of suffering

(In England) ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel

(Photos developing) half-formed ghost

a hundred agonies in black and whiteModifiers: adjectives and adverbs His editor will pick out five or six form

Sunday’s supplement

Repetition

Narrator Third person, so doesn’t sound overtly critical: (ending) ‘they do not care’

Echoes his thoughts: ‘He has a job to do’ (short sentence suggest he’s pulling himself together) and ‘he remembers the cries of this man’s wife’

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field REAL EXAMPLES OF WAR: Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh

Poem: Tissue

Themes: War / Pride

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Paper…transparent with attention

(paper that reflects history – Koran…who was born)

…might fly our lives like paper kites

(ENDING. Paper has) turned into your skin

Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition CARE: smoothed, stroked, thinned

Narrator 1st person

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field LIGHT: light, shone, sun shines, luminous, daylight

FRAGILITY: transparent, thinned, drfit

Poem: The emigree

Themes: War / Pride

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes There was once a county…

Worst news I receive of it cannot break my original view

It may be sick with tyrants

I am branded by an impression of sunlight

It tastes of sunlight

My city takes me dancing

They accuse me…circle me…mutter death

My shadow falls as evidence of sunlightModifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition Sunlight

Narrator 1st person: proud of her home-country

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field LIGHT: sunlight, bright, white

Poem: Kamikaze

Themes: Pain / Betrayal / Corruption / Family / Past

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes A shaven head full of powerful

incantations

A one-way journey into history

(story for narrator’s children, pilot’s grandchildren): boats string out like bunting

(story for narrator’s children, pilot’s grandchildren) (fish) like a huge flag

gradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though he never returned

Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs My mother never spoke again

Repetition

Narrator 1st person (pilot’s child, reflecting on the past)

Rhetorical questions (ENDING: the mother said) he must have wondered which had been the better way to die

Lexical Field

Poem: Checking out me History

Themes: Past / Pride / Corruption

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes Bandage up me eyes

Blind me to me own identity

ENDING: I carving out me identityModifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition Dem tell me / No dem never tell me about dat

STRUCTURE: three examples of famous white person (taught in school) followed by famous black person (not taught in schools)

Narrator 1st person and written phonetically

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field CONCEALMENT: bandage, blind

CHILDREN’S STORIES: Dick Whittinton and he cat / de cow dat jumped over the moon / Robin Hood

Poem: My Last Duchess

Themes: Pride / Corruption / Death

Method QuotesImagery: metaphors and similes That spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek

(Paint) That dies along her throat

she had a heart too easily impressed

Her looks went everywhere

My gift of a 900-year old name

Oh, sir, she smiled…the all smiles stopped

Modifiers: adjectives and adverbs

Repetition As if alive

CONTROL: My last Duchess and The curtain I have drawn

Narrator 1st person MONOLOGUE (i.e. just him talking, but he is talking to another character who is listening, but does not speak. This character knows the Duke’s next bride-to-be…)

Rhetorical questions

Lexical Field