1. 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

2. 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 

3. 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 

4. 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 

5. 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 

6. 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 

7. 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 

8. 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
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9. 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 

10. 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 

11. 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 

12. 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 

13. 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 

14. 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 

15. 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 