Ozymandias Title means: “One who has power over the air itself” Story: speaker meets man who’s been to Egypt and seen broken statue of legs and head and inscription “Look…and despair!” Nothing else remains. Structure Sonnet – 14 lines – iambic pentameter – ten syllables BUT irregular rhyme scheme (maybe because Ozymandias himself is broken) Links- My Last Duchess – absolute power of one man Kamikaze – power of ideas Quotations “Sneer of cold command” “lone and level sands” (alliteration) “colossal wreck” (metaphor for Ozy) Power of TIME to defeat kings –even ones like Ozy! Of the ARTIST – his statue’s face will “survive” Picture goes in the TOP RIGHT HAND corner- Done By Marek

London Title means- a dirty corrupt city where the poor are powerless Story:speaker walks London seeing the poor abused by the rich, powerful and religious. Babies, adults, soldiers, prostitutes suffer, catch diseases, die in misery. Quotations – “mind-forged manacles”(alliteration/metaphor = minds are in chains) “youthful harlot’s curse” (child prostitutes) “runs in blood down palace walls” (soldiers die to protect rich) Conflict rich/poor young born into broken world Structure 4 verses 4 lines abab – rhythm of walking in London Links Ozymandias – abuse of power over people Kamikaze – history and tradition are powerful and destructive By Marek 

The Prelude (extract) Title means - “first bit” – the POWER of NATURE in his first memories Story:speaker steals a boat on peaceful moonlit lake, sees looming mountains, terrifying force of nature – two sides of Nature Structure regular lines of iambic pentameter telling a story - narrative Links Storm on the Island - power of nature/weather Bayonet Charge – power of nature/weather Quotations “mountain echoes” “sparkling light” huge peak, black and huge” (repetition) “the grim shape towered up”…”like a living thing”(simile) Conflict beauty/terror of Nature Boy in boat v personification of mountains By Marek 

My Last Duchess Title -“Last” could mean final or previous Story:A one-sided dialogue of a Duke and his guest looking at a painting of his flirtatious Duchess. The Duke confesses to killing her. Quotations “My” (possessive pronoun) “I” (selfish) “faint half-flush that dies along her throat” “I gave command and all smiles stopped together” “Notice Neptune” (alliteration) Power Power of life and death of Duke. Jealousy. Structure Dramatic Monologue Rhyming couplets Iambic pentameter Enjambment (one line runs into the next) Links Ozymandias- absolute power of one man Charge of the Light Brigade – power of pride to destroy By Marek 

Charge of the Light Brigade Title means- Celebration of the death of brave lightly-armed horsemen Story: Soldiers in the Crimean War follow mistaken orders and die charging at Russian guns. Quotations “half a league onwards” (repetition/onomatopoeia of horses’ hooves) “Into the valley of death” (metaphor) “cannon…volleyed and thundered” (onomatopoeia) Conflict - war of English v Russians cannons v men bravery/patriotism Structure two stresses in each line six stanzas narrates the stages of the battle military drumming sounds Links Bayonet Charge – ordinary man suffering in war Exposure – men not understanding war By Marek 

Exposure Title means- soldiers “exposed” to die by violence or bad weather Story: Winter 1917 – soldier in the trenches in danger of dying from cold, wonders why he is there, in danger from rain and bullets. Thinks of home, God, country but also of death and burial. Structure 8 verses – 4 long lines and short refrain Lots of repetition – sense that “nothing happens” Lots of half rhymes – sense of something incomplete Links War photographer – (people don’t care about horrors) Storm on the Island (effects of weather) Bayonet Charge – effect of war on soldiers Quotations “But nothing happens” (repetition) “Is it that we are dying?” (rhetorical question) “Our ghosts drag home” (metaphor) “eyes are ice” (metaphor) Conflict - the war itself and the soldier’s attitude to it – conflict between man and weather By Marek 

Storm on the Island Title means- conflict between man in his house and the island weather Story: The island people build strong cottages to keep out the weather on an island where the wind and the sea are fierce. We are afraid of the wind but we cannot see it. Quotations “leaves and branches can raise a chorus” (personification) “flung spray…spits like a tame cat turned savage” (simile) It is a huge nothing that we fear (oxymoron) Power – of nature, even though humans try to adapt to it and control it. Structure Unrhymed – blank verse Quite conversational Asides to the reader – chatty conversation Links Power of the weather in Exposure Power of nature in The Prelude By Marek 

Bayonet Charge Title means- soldiers running across enemy territory with knife attached to gun in WW1 Story: Soldier runs across war zone carrying rifle; he is a weapon not a man - wonders what he is doing there, sees a hare shot, a metaphor for his own fear and desire to escape. Structure three verses unrhymed lots of caesuras and enjambment – sense of confusion Links - Exposure – war and conflict – soldier’s fears Remains – effect of war on man Quotations “rifle numb as a smashed arm” (simile – personification – machine=man) “sweating like molten iron (simile – man=machine) “yellow hare that rolled like a flame (metaphor for a coward?) Conflict – a war where a man has no choice By Marek 

Remains Title means- something that stays with you/ parts of a dead body Story: A soldier in a modern war shoots a looter robbing a bank without knowing whether the man is armed or not. Each time he passes the spot the soldier remembers and suffers from PTSD – day and night Structure 7 verses and a two-line ending Monologue Conversational tone Links – War Photographer – feelings about watching death Kamikaze – how the past can be traumatic War Photographer – conflict of decisions made in the past. Quotations “probably armed, possibly not” “tosses his guts back into his body” (violent image/colloquial/chatty) “his bloody life in my bloody hands” Power – soldier has power of life and death but NO power over his own feelings and memories By Marek 

Poppies Title means- the poppy we wear and what it signifies – death and memory Story: The poem flashes back to a mother who pins a poppy on her young son and shows him affection. Years later, he goes to war and she visits the war memorial fearing that he is already dead. Structure Monologue 4 stanzas No rhyme scheme Links Emigree – power of memory Kamikaze – power of the past Quotations “I pinned one onto your lapel” “run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair” (image – contrasting language) released a song bird from its cage (metaphor) Conflict – war affects people who left at home- conflict in mother’s emotions By Marek 

Tissue Title means- pun – play on words – human flesh and something which is fragile or easy to destroy Story: Tissue is fine and lets the light through. Important family information and histories can be written on it, so can maps and receipts and building plans. We should not worry if all these things change like living human tissue – it doesn’t matter. Structure monologue giving speaker’s ideas easy language complicated idea=metaphor of tissue Links London- politics and destruction can happen in society if we let them. Religion can cause problems Emigree – power of the past and traditions Quotations “paper thinned by age or touching” (metaphor for things changing) “fine slips….might fly our lives like paper kites (simile) for being willing to change “a structure never meant to last” (metaphor) Power – we try to keep power and make it last when we should be happy with impermanence and change By Marek 

The Emigree Title means- a person who has had to leave a city but remembers it with affection. Story: The speaker remembers the city she left. She is fond of the place, language and culture. As an adult she might not be welcome to return, but she still loves it. Structure 3 stanzas 8 lines/8 lines/9 lines No rhyme Rhythm – free verse – but similar line length Lots of images of sunlight Links Poppy – power of memory The Prelude – natural imagery – power of childhood memories Quotations “my memory of it is sunlight clear” (positive image) “It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants” (negative image) “child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll” (simile) Power – power of memory – positive images of sunlight – power of culture By Marek 

War Photographer Title means- man makes a record of war so that others can understand its horror Story: Photographer is in his dark room developing pictures safe at home. In the red light he sees the shocking images of foreign wars. People will just glance at them in the paper. Structure rhymes – make shocking links “tears” and “beers” 4 verses with rhyming couplets and some non-rhyming lines (ordered, like the photos) Narrative – tells a story Links – Remains – idea of images which stay after the horror has gone Kamikaze – idea of inner conflict and making your own decisions Quotations “spools of suffering” (alliteration)(metaphor) “a stranger’s feature…a half-formed ghost” “he earns his living and they do not care” Power - power of images of conflict mental conflict – taking pictures of someone’s death – to make the death public Conflict between safety of home and war zone By Marek 

Checking out me History Title means- man thinking about his past and his people’s past Story: A black man feels his history has been ignored – he has been taught white history and nursery rhymes - nothing about heroic black and women Structure Irregular structure Enjambment Two fonts – one for white people, italics for black people, like a call and response Links Emigree -power of another culture – memories Kamikaze – power of tradition Quotations “a healing star” (metaphor) “Dem tell me” (dialect/pronouns) “Star” “Beacon” (images of light) Conflict Power of white people Stories of black identity Anger of black speaker By Marek 

Kamikaze Title means- a Japanese pilot who had the honour of dying for his country in WW2 Story: A father prepares to pilot his plane on its suicide mission. His daughter thinks he must have seen the beauty of the sea, fishes and boats and turned back. He was rejected as disgraced by his family – a living death. Structure Calm images of nature throughout poem Change of font to show the daughter telling the story to her own children Quite regular line and verse length but with some variation –like the waves of the sea? Links – War Photographer – inner conflict/making your own decisions. Poppy – inner conflict. Remains – a decision which traumatises you forever. Quotations “a one-way journey into history “a tuna, the dark prince, muscular and dangerous” (metaphor for the pilot?) “he must have wondered which had been the better way to die” Power – power of nature v power of a tradition of heroic self-sacrifice. Power of rejection by family Conflict - Japanese “honour” and family. Inner conflict of the pilot. By Marek 