poetry-conflict and tension

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face I meet worried faces of the people Marks of weakness, marks of woe. Repentirme sees. emotive language 5 In every cry of every man, the writer suggests the residens of In every infant's cry of fear, london feel like prisoners. Reption owner- In every voice, in every ban, he continues the tone of misery, sounds. The mind-forged manacles I hear: of the city. ship. poverty How the chimney-sweeper's cry Blake creates on image of blach churches 10 Every black'ning church appalls, and blood starned paraces suggesting And the hapless soldier's sigh lame Runs in blood down palace walls. Jolders fignning loying But most through midnight streets I hear Blake suggests that most often How the youthful harlot's curse ne nears prostitutes curcing their 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear, crying new-born babies. And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. mage of a hearce decorated ford marnage ceremony - smellup contrasting imagry lemotion cove+ death Conflict between the goverment aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 27 • upon you puinuou deldoning himself from Sanowow, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Extract from, The Prelude Spinta relationship w/ man and body nature personified Powerful nature taimes One summer evening (led by her) I found feminin avalrices. the lead. personification.godess. A little boat tied to a willow tree The first section is in 1st person the Within a rocky cove, its usual home.writers point of upew. - Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in foreshadowing. 5 Pushed from the shore. It was an act of stealth - And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice +ation Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on; Dersonification : enviroment intimidating a peaceful, Positive language, taking from nature. Small circles glittering idly in the moon, proud from thning from Aature/selfish Leaving behind her still, on either 10 Until they melted all into one track His childhood thought. Shows his innocence and how he loves nature. shows now he is grown and mater magica of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, celestia proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point feel. 1-Sublime -Importent infomation Pride With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge, 15 The horizon's utmost boundary; far above Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. She was an elfin pinnace; lustily Juil I dipped my oars into the silent lake, - Peace 28 And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat 20 Went heaving through the water like a swan, Simile, beautiful When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge, -repetition. As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, 25 And growing still in stature the grim shape -negative Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. With trembling oars I turned, 30 And through the silent water stole my way AGAG English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library image of natur GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Back to the covert of the willow tree; There in her mooring-place I left my bark, - And through the meadows homeward went, in grave And serious mood; but after I had seen this 13 were it starts to get daru. the dark side of nature. 35 That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes 40 Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. (open aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 29 My Last Duchess shows power know something and control has happened. Possesive pronoun That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call ✓ Snow the suices connections That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands could suggest ar an attarn Worked busily a day, and there she stands. ouse isspeaking directly Will't please you sit and look at her? I said the envoy - the rhetorical questoun 'Frà Pandolf' by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by Ferrara 1 5 Robert Browning (1812-1889) 10 The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) necan now. And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, the you're: arrogant and ne is. How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not men Di Coll be around other. Her husband's presence only, called that spot diner menmude the ff. Fouchess bush food be due to ner 15 Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps 30 Simile tenisa reader that the ducness is dead thought affors took place at his home the duke is the only one who can Tell back the currain - when she Jovasarve he could not control her Frà Pandolf chanced to say 'Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint the painting to be just for Must never hope to reproduce the faint ·nim. Half-flush that dies along her throat': such stuff foreshadows her death 20 was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. 25 Sir, 'twas all one! My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule thought, the ouchess had -affairs with lower Status Men. AGAG English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library pule suggets that the Juanes, did not know what she was doing reverby attention to other men, othermen Jeasily wond Jealous Sthnushe is a good husband. ir men would risu their lives for her GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY you all of there things She rode with round the terrace - all and each entertained her. 30 Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men, - good! but thanked Somehow-I know not how - as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name his surname symbolised wealth With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame and he thinks it is valuanene think, neows him somerung 35 This sort of trifling? Even had you skill In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will-maing exuses for hum sey butne isiying Quite clear to such an on and say, 'Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark' - and if she let 40 Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, - E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without 45 Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; he ordered Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands her to be arired the nan Comanos As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet freflects the The company below, then. I repeat, Juul mign (14 33 The Count your master's known munificence. Embaja Jux manure Stooping = to decend from a Superour social position- Repition of 'Smire' suggests he is not sud. and power -7 generosity 50 Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; the money of women brings to her husband I marrying for money Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll gobiectify any another woman in Rigton) Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, thus he has done it before and ar "ouliagan 55 Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! nary pevce) of art wory. only caves about Position and wealon. Grense Tampic pantamere to represen • the julness neart beat • the owne has taven her neart. • used ironicly to fefect the Cipomenou onnes rachot #nomos (Me neur). aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 31 The Charge of the Light Brigade 5 Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 10 they knew Rode the six hundred. they would die - denumanised. forebiding. 2. 32 - Repetion = powerful imagry. of cavary using their swords. Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, 15 Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 1. Half a league, half a league, - Repetion Half a league onward, Power of three All in the valley of Death -repetion metaphor Not the six hundred. Soldiers have been killed. Rode the six hundred. commander officers *Forward, the Light Brigade! Speaunwards 5. Charge for the guns!' he said: -Charge for the Cannon to right of them, Into the valley of Death -Repetition 40 Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them *Forward, the Light Brigade!"Punch Was there a man dismay'd? shows comm5 power Not tho' the soldier knew Remmes US 30 Charging an army, while againsed PUSSYan ony Sabring the gunners there, nat cauairtys All the world wonder'd: guns. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian 35 Reel'd from the sabre-stroke poem Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, - Strong imagry 25 Into the mouth of Hell Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, 3. Cannon to right of them, Reparon at the Cannon to left of them, Sart and end 50 20 Cannon in front of them - soldiers are 55 surronded verbs = empnasisiy Zane action the Pose of the increasing English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library Rhyme and rep- All that was left of them, Repetion sa bence and sence of erron shows solides Left of six hundred. J lives have been lost ty. -battle fend Shatter'd and sunder'd. -Violent language Then they rode back, but notSious) nted to lines 18-22 Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, admiration ad They that had fought so well/ Sadness Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, Noble six hundred! -7 leaves the reader with Volley'd and thunder'dy enemys guns. and idea that they should nonor the calary. Storm'd at with shot and shell, Rntorical quesion Chullcages the Reader. not useful All the world wonder'd. throughout Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, agunds dramare dariny 6. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! personification: Personifys dearn and how Rode the six hundred. hell makes them seem like monsters that the soldiers camot escape from. on 4th november, he was snot by a german maching-guner during an unsuccessfu GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY most of his experience is real. he was a soldrer. Exposurexperience Personal Pronoun. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Personal siblience 1 COur brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive 5 Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent... Low, drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient... Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, unnatral Sallence. the effect of whispering - But nothing happens. Sibriance of the repeted is' Sound creats Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Barific mage, wind to Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, live young mun: 10 Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. Reasant sounds of war. they nervoSIS SO OSAen), whole What are we doing here? Rhetorical question - is ineir even dawn brings precence pointress how? why? no comput The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow ... us... El Pes wants us to Ponder on the woea cruel winter 25 We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army 15 Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, But nothing happens. Refrain. The incessan, warng continues Bem Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, 20 We watch them wandering up and down the wind's passing lime-warning nonchalance, snowflanes. solovers: passive wewmen active But nothing happens. re frain, want ing warding. ⇒ death Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces - We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed. Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. - Is it that we are dying? Bramble'- noun: A prickly aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 33 Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed 30 With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, - We turn back to our dying. Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; 35 Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, 40 Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp. The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens. During won the british Press presented a very posnive image to get more people to join. The soldiers in the trenches of wwlare awake at night awarting an enemy adiach. the real enemy is nature, cold, windy is nowing. the men magine returning home, but the doors were there are closeo. 34 4240 English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library Storm on the Island 1 Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) 5 GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY to gether wise ano ble au -low but it because of the Storm -wistesred showed that the same thing earing's experience the "S" sound storms. of first person We are prepared: we build our houses squat, they are prepared for st the storm They know what to do. Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks overwhelming. Or stooks that can be lost. Nor are there trees -mating it sterdy alitivation bused to it sonor as fear fullinever been seared because of eairin Which might prove company when it blows full ・direct adress Blast: you know what I mean - leaves and branches in Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale repetition of you I importent / comparison So that you can listen to the thing you fear 10 Forgetting that it pummels your house too. But there are no trees, no natural shelter. You might think that the sea is company, . Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits 15 The very windows, spits like a tame cat - Personvfucation - Simiire-Sea is vicious. Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives - its like they are used to it. And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo.trol and Power they can't do anything about it. Aymoron We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. Strange/ nowning / fear-unique natene of the wind that blasts. Seamus heaney grew up on his father's farm in county Derry, northern Irland. Many of his poens were influenced by the life style and traditions of his country side upbringing. islanders living the remote experience described here will be used to storms. Dramatic monologeistrong scence of anticipation throughout. language is Plain and ordenery. The Structue is simple and appropriate. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 35 action 1 Ted Hughes (1930-1998) get killed either way 7 gun with a knife attached to it. Bayonet Charge draws the reader in two preperation. Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw fresh jiers uniform. In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy, -showing that hes scared or nervous. Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge Starts falling tired That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing 5 violence. Bullets smacking the belly out of the air--verb is harsh. He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm; simire reminds us of the dangers. Eighting. for The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye-the patrosim that moves the him country Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest, --Similie, personification. In bewilderment then he almost stopped-nere he stops to question why he 10 In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations - Atration, GUESTION running towards the enemy Was he the hand pointing that second? He was running-Rhiorical question his inner thoughts - Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs 36 Listening between his footfalls for the reason-hewants to know the reason for the war and for his service Of his still running, and his foot hung like -Similie. 15 Statuary in mid-stride. Then the shot-slashed furrows SYMBO 11.5 lime Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide Open silent, its eyes standing out. - it is the have that awakes him from his S. CHaury staine. He plunged past with his bayonet toward the green hedge, 20 King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm To get out of that blue crackling air His terror's touchy dynamite. The metaphor of this line shows that he is scared out AGAG English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library rregular stanzas. 1 the incident -memory Remains Courpse of a dead human, left over. casual tone -forced our On another occasion, we get sent out how it happens alor Sto tackle looters raiding a bank. iminated collocuial language / slang And one of them legs it up the road, ruming Font Vouwvo? Simon Armitage (b. 1963) probably armed, possibly not. weapons- uncintting of situation power crepatition / feeling of unsertinty 5 Well myself and somebody else and somebody else -3 in totalion armed Isoldiers are all of the same mind, -They have to do it otherwise they! boting at something gom Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear repation and Drepanition violent word. will die. so all three of us open fire. - shoo or someone I see every round as it rips through his life -- seeing the pearson he has shor I see broad daylight on the other side.viddescription of effect on bulets So we've hit this looter a dozen times -Shot a lot of times and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out, -emotive Potito us the story GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY •The whole poem is about the Army and what they have to go through. /All negative. language. dying man. -suffering conation. -nonific imagry emotive language. pain itself, the image of agony. One of my mates goes by now shocking the poem is 15 and tosses his guts back into his body. - matreate the dead man. eeling Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry. -got take somewhere the verbs to sses and carted suggested this lack of respect casual thing to do of they are li've used to it. End of story, except not really. to people who blood stains are dead. His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol remainds on the street. I walk right over it week after week. 20 Then I'm home on leave. But I blink - talking about trama and Pasd afer war/army •Altiration. perspective - was written from the perspected of a solover stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan. they were on Pairol and fire on some bank robbers. -the poen is about the Prsb soldiers get after wars. adops the voice of a british Soldier. reflection of the experiance. Armiage aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 37 and he bursts again through the doors of the bank. Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not. Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds. And the drink and the drugs won't flush him out - 25 he's here in my head when I close my eyes, P+SD and trama. dug in behind enemy lines, Sibriance and alitiration metaphor closely inued to military life. to flosh out means to brean overe. or six-feet-under in desert sand, adjectives emphise him but actulegt ned left not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land alternative compound •where ne Dead hushf, alternative `n´suggestive of and but near to the knuckle, here and now, negate the memory. that suggests how he'd love to 30 his bloody life in my bloody hands. - howne killed a man had his life The guit hereels. Pt around his hands. SDSOLUTIons he sadopting buildings. towards the finail line. Still hanted by the memory / still can't get over the e soldeers and are de-humanised exexsive power over Power British Solovers exersise Power over the loolers by being allowed to shoot them on sight. there is Power of memory -the narrator comet control his memory or the thoughts of the dead man that plavuye 38 or formers nim. His Current life is filled with trumatio memories of one mans death. why? This powerful poem writen in colloqual english OPITE CUBIDE DEAL W do 2 4040 English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library Library 1 Poppies ·Time sequence Three days before Armistice Sunday Rememberence Day and poppies had already been placed-Show peace on individual war graves. Before you left, -Respectiforeach solider. Remaining composed I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, -repet ton of before implies that spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade She misses him. 5 Jane Weir (b. 1963) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY of yellow bias binding around your blazer-Alteration Symbol of bomby in the war. Sellotape bandaged around my hand, -taposition emotionally whounded I rounded up as many white cat hairs / shes hurt as n feelings. as I could, smoothed down your shirt's - magry to empsise speakers closeness 10 upturned collar, steeled the softening to herson. of my face. I wanted to graze my nose -She wanted to but she couldn't. across the tip of your nose, play at being Eskimos like we did when - talking about Pas memories m you were little. I resisted the impulsends it hard to stop herself treating himlile 15 to run my fingers through the gelled She did when he was IT AIR 4. Prickly blackthorns of your hair. All my words hes grown up, almost live! flattened, rolled, turned into felt, -7 nothing to say Triparite Structure list of three is struggling to convey her emotions- slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked - first person to show that the front of the guard of the poem .snes brave. though shes really sad. 20 it open, the world overflowing-emotive language. with you, to the front door, threw like a treasure chest. A split second-meters mite live resisting and you were away, intoxicated. ametive language sons excitment contrasts mo After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, -shows that she misses him, meno- released a song bird from its cage. -Minor, mother letting the child free 25 Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, doves = dealth / Peale-son- /- 115 line the dove told her. personification and this is where it has led me, skirting the church yard walls, my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats, hat-less, without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves. Bathe imagry. of three shows that she's vuner ble to the elements as ner son was exposed to weapons in battle. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 39 Sensory 30 On reaching the top of the hill I traced -\magry litral and mexphorical. the inscriptions on the war memorial, isu's herson has faced Ifaces. leaned against it like a wishbone. Smie, hope for save return. The dove pulled freely against the sky, oue=death / heaven hersons death. an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear 35 your playground voice catching on the wind. -emotive language MISSY'S Kim in 1963, and grew Jane was born in Italy up in italy and Manchester -She also lives in northern Irelend in 1980s she has two song -neither of whom served in the war. 'Poppies' was written in responce to the escalating confirct and the lossess suffered during the wars in Iraq and afghanistan. 40 Armisiste sunday started in 1918 as a way of marking the end of world war one. -rememberance day / respectfur, Poppies are worn as a memorial of the fallen soldiers. son leaving for army. She feels sad and lonly and shes desprately trying to find any trace of him. 1- identifing the day par 2-memones of their life together 3- seeing high leave her. 4 - Listing the cemetery poems to compare. Remains, expo sure, bayorent change the emigire - loss 4 war Photographer. storon on the island. AGAD English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library sauullua 110 Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY War Photographer Jeppessing imagry and lonelyness. internal conflict. 1 In his darkroom he is finally alone shows how hes always with someone. with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. in grauyard The only light isted and softly glows, gryf people blood as though this were a church and he · Reiyous death magry 5 a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Be to do with the bible / church+maz Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. - metaphor, de nummanising a human Photographer ditany. 27 113t of city of where it has happened WAR beneath his hands, which He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays his Jobis a photographer, en apment Sibriance amitiration. are shating/NO CHOICe. though seem to now. Rural England. Home again country, peaceful, tranquil 10 to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, become so normal lused to it to fields which don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat. contrast - barefoot Chiloren running in grass for fun I those running from war -end of innocence. Something is happening. A stranger's features horrifre image before our eyes. faintly start to twist before his eyes, -watching someone dre/ PTSD. 15 a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries metaphorilmage on Photo death of this man's wife, how he sought approval - Photographer's olema has a Job to oo.nternal conflict. neiries without words to do what someone must o disionce himself from the norrovs and how the blood stained into foreign dust. ned memorey A hundred agonies in black-and-white photo 20 from which his editor will pick out five or six good revil (truth lifes sublime for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick - mocuery of the seriousness of with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where - en rute to another assignment he earns his living and they do not care. Power ove the media of aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 41 Tissue 2 tone ta modera society Paper thinned by age or touching, majorcuatic reactive, suggests a very familiar waron isian 10 Imtiaz Dharker (b. 1954) Jambment, creates on - going mondio que Paper that lets the light tone. shine through, this is what could alter things. 42 ·concept. the kind you find in well-used books, culture the back of the Koran, where a hand has written in the names and histories, who was born to whom, central to the nemer Sympolic - not just of someone who designs buildings but also anyone who makes anything.metaphor forus all 25 An architect could use all this, faded yellowed with age place layer over layer, luminous enjabment script over numbers over line, and never wish to build again with brick Pather's fallacy hopeful or block, but let the daylight break aspect 30 through capitals and monoliths, of the poem to the messege through the shapes that pride can make society find a way to trace a grand design SPintoal fulfilment suggesis we could be buriding mung's shot improve oue with living tissue, raise a structure merup for people or soury ominuscan be never meant to last, 35 of paper smoothed and stroked Condo and thinned to be transparent, toc war-terroisu ReRe 1177 on 10 Siensas. al. Berling Tactrie intimicay of one boawal turned into your skin. now on a larger Directaress scall. the height and weight, who died where and how, on which sepia date, handed pages smoothed and stroked and turned Down transparent with attention. adicale verps Not much arengrous book but If buildings were paper, I might meraphor feel their drift, see how easily Personited 15 they fall away on a sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind. transientvers a treasurednerloom and comeCATUM AU family suggesting that islead of beny at conficct with the world around us we eveate a sense of ownership and shared I demity. AGAD English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library Reficet movement and 10neotentement change. Maps too. (The sun shines through their borderlines, the marks encompasses Ene man, that rivers make, roads, conarure made aspects of the world and now the 'sunshines' 20 railtracks, mountainfolds, shows hope. metaphore /ouunie meaning Fine slips from grocery shops - everyday image of grosnies. that say how much was sold and what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites, end like innocence and ease. 1 Carol Rumens (b. 1944) The Emigrée eminim form. There once was a country... I left it as a child is also suggests 1053. makes it sound like a story but my memory of it is sunlight-clear-Suggests memory is bright and clear contrast for it seems I never saw it in that November Sunlight with november daru, gloomy which, I am told, comes to the mildest city. S nimtsar sumy, happy mer voice telling her The worst news I receive of it cannot break about her past. my original view, the bright, filled paperweight. -Country is subjected to violence, bad news "to the country. It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, - but I am branded by an impression of sunlight. Repered vel rences, dream-like Picture 5 GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY but melapnore reenforces the idea of her verw as unchangeable she is marned by it. The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes 10 glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks personification, time as a enemy and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves, how close she feels to the city That child's vocabulary I carried here- he seems to be refering to the language of her she smugglederconceales a grammar. -grammer of the language reveakerorg a hollow doll, opens and 1th nerthernew ner Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it. 15 It may by now be a lie, banned by the state by those ne rule it. er language is suppested. but I can't get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight. Sence descripe on as mea pror cant get rid of her memories the languge is a positive, treasured thing But... I have no passport, there's no way back at all firstline sounds nopiess but my city comes to me in its own white plane. It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; 20 I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.-Bersonit "Cation -child My city takes me dancing through the city-personitiation. of walls. They accuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city. My city hides behind me. They mutter death, contrast 'they' 'me' personification 30 and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight. Ofy Moron oxymoron: despite the threat of death and the mentions of darni suggesting a shreat to her welbeing, the speaker ends the power on a positive note. Io ven the darkness of her shadow is a reminder of the sunlight that once was. She will not give up her memories нијоу in this aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 43 1 Checking Out Me History Dem tell me .Repetition. • 'Dem' = "them and us - creates conflict Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me Phoenix Spelling of carrabean accent. narrators voic 5 10 15 20 John Agard (b. 1949) 44 link to his wdentity. Bandage up me eye with me own history delibrate attept tonide history Blind me to me own identity Bringing back his own identity. for not him tsee his own history. Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat choish Rhyme nursry' But Toussaint L'Ouverture and angry no dem never tell me bout dat.double negative sounds assertive and Toussaint a slave -succession of short lines slows the pace. -suggests he's breaking off from his main point to recall this mentory. Images of light and vision coslast with the lindness of his forman education. with vision lick back Napoleon Strong Phymes and browen syntax snow importance battalion Ordi comunication. and first Black Republic born Toussaint de thorn Repetion makes it sound live a chont, creating to de French conciend and forczui moo0. Toussaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon. and de cow who jump over de moon Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon 25 but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon the simple Rhyme scneeme empatises the siliness of the whidre taught. Rhymes buidup nes been history AGAR English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library 30 40 A figures from British hollore 45 لعمت contrast with many nurcery uhymes see-far woman of mountain dream fire-woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Real-life figure. Seacole, cn importen -ded to vision. The future. connects nanny she seems true espiritual person: she's also associated with hope and Irvaerty Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo european colocer compared tonative Americall cultures that out Shaka de great Zulu Sed sigvery Resoriction minder then theres aways but dem never tell me Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492 ontraste 35 but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too more than one version of history, burnes only been taught one- that of the gests that shes Passion te. Wnued Parmi endi lignte consee stu to nature and water - colonisty Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp mehes florexe and how Robin Hood used to camp work sound un importent entengutes but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole Rhyme charclaters in Stanzer - Unele Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soule lorone chysic Prevcy mines From Jamaica seems more real and relevent then she travel far the scenes from white history to the Crimean War a yellow sunrise to the dying her she volunteer to go and even when de British said no suggest she's defiant and brave. she still brave the Russian snow a healing star melapnor links her to the wider universe. ded images suggest light, hope and warmth. among the wounded 50 Dem tell me Repeats Phonetic lines from first Stanza - reminus Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me us of the narrators anger. But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity Emphatic finc, word - sums up the main theme hes gong to use his own history to crease his identity ( 45 Kamikaze -Sunside missions sexin wwz Her father embarked at sunrise -Japar is known as the land of the nary en. Jeaps with a flask of water, a samurai sword minilistic -Sword is the symbol of a war SISION in the cockpit, a shaven headpycological process- In theory he is willing to go on the aude mesion. full of powerful incantations 1 Beatrice Garland (b. 1938) 5 and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history he's not expected to come back but half way there, she thought, recounting it later to her children, he must have looked far down shes not sure: tries to justify 10 at the little fishing boats 46 strung out like bunting Pubire celebration. on a green-blue translucent sea imagry and beneath them, arcing in swathes like a huge flag waved first one way 15 then the other in a figure of eight, the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies im. swivelled towards the sun and remembered how he and 20 his brothers waiting on the shore built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles to see whose withstood longest the turbulent inrush of breakers bringing their father's boat safe making. submissive, like the piolet nature mmikuing de co 1? surrender? Proter is noticing the small things in life, the could be his last moments Tronic 2 =he father's boat wont besafe if he dies. broken. contunity winner feelings longings. turbulence! Burral mondo mark graves or for memora is. Poen describes innocent game. Daruer undertoner foreshadowas their own deams- English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Msafery the loosin the compared to now Reposition 25 - yes, grandfather's boat-safextaposition. to the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel, black crabs, feathery prawns, the loose silver of whitebait and once-Repation, the value of the nature world. 30-a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. could be seen as d enemy. Reminds the decader of the powers of nature. And though he came back my mother never spoke again acs, direct speach of the daughter in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes irony: he survived, but he is and the neighbours too, they treated him treated as if hes dead. 35 as though he no longer existed, -treated as though he was dead. only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned the power and influence of society. to be silent, to live as though he had never returned, that this 40 was no longer the father we loved. no And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered -he Receves no respect and which had been the better way to die. he is to everyon. dead basicty Cregvers his Choices - the silence should be out of grevf nowever Its from oi' sowershin. Repetition of 'Safe' across the two stanzas hints at the prolets mine-ser. The pilots famly are 7 des ructivnes of Parriosm So ashamed that at they treat himas if hes dead. He may that ne'd fulfilled his mission either way his story ends in a type of death. have wished conflict between family and picks. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 47