I’ve suggested that my class only learn quotes from these 4 poems (but I know some teachers think that’s a bit risky – so do what your teacher tells you to do!!)  We only have 3 quotes from each for now, but will identify two more from each poem so will have 5 from each, or 20 in total by the real GCSEs.  Remember my class that you must be able to identify the 3 key quotes from every poem (not just these four) if you look at a blank copy of it (Mr Johnson has put blank copies here, but you have to scroll down a bit in the document for the Conflict poems: https://englishatturton.edublogs.org/2016/08/01/year-11-poetry-exam-revision-guide/)

KAMIKAZE

• but half way there
• flashing silver as their bellies/ swivelled towards the sun
•  he no longer existed

OZYMANDIAS

• Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert
• ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:’
• Round the decay/ Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,/ The lone and level sands stretch far away.

REMAINS

• probably armed, possibly not.   OR    End of story, except not really.
• sun-stunned, sand-smothered land    OR  blood-shadow
• his bloody life in my bloody hands.

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

• Cannon to right of them,/ Cannon to left of them,/ Cannon in front of them
• All the world wonder’d:
• Left of six hundred.

 

 

THEMES/POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

• Female perspective – Kamikaze
• Nature – Ozymandias
• Anti-establishment – Ozymandias
• Futility of war – Remains
• Dominant leader – Ozymandias
• Experience of battle – Charge of Light Brigade
• Celebrating heroism – Charge of Light Brigade
• Mental distress – Remains
• Other cultures/identity – Kamikaze
• Violence – Remains Patriotism – Charge of the Light Brigade
• Loss and absence – Kamikaze
• Memory – Remains