Power and conflict poems

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does flow, And mark in face I meet Marks of wompressions power. GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Some people. have more powers Yound on viver durity industal waste being marks of woe. destresed and depresed people due anphora In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear In every voice. in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: Brain washed to think stup is ok from forced vistions and `chain what athurity whant you to think 9 How the chimney-sweeper's cry 10 Every black'ning church appalls, to do Children (exploting the weak and young) belives in god but the church is cruped helping the poor. and not altration Talking about how the monery no hope depresed. is crupped and runs down palce 1 And the hapless soldier's sigh 12 Runs in blood down palace walls. morphole importans of suffring Poverty, Showing importants because every one in the city is sad and upset poverty 13 But most through midnight streets I hear 15. SOUR 14 How the youthful harlot's curse 15 Blasts the new-born infant's tear, 6 And blights with plagues the marriage hearse. 'verbegressive darkness Ploustute due to looking in the night and dalk to see what is like. loundon young wolman are Swinal Turned into prostued at re being night. car infecutos. Critsizing Margie and patacy of men being incharge Criticise patriarchy and with the haviots and pussing on men geting involed Braking up marages and causing pormen discus 10 die aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 27 TOP of Mountin 1 28 autobiographical real experances romantic Poet Theams of nature + Part of a Extract from, The Prelude One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree William Wordsworth (1770-1850) allitat 10 Until they melted all into one track peacful 1 magery changing of freedom. ed the bout price/poweful Within a rocky cove, its usual home. Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Pushed from the shore. It was an act of stealth -Possesive pronown Stolen Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on; not alot around ther And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice. Leaving behind her still, on either side, Small circles glittering idly in the moon. metphove Of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, Caesural drmatic pause. boasting a mounting Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point, bo with an unswerving line, I fixed my view looking! his skills 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 I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat 20 Went heaving through the water like a swan;- When, from behind that craggy steep till then The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge adsective. Peake of As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, 25 And growing still in stature the grim shape Ve 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 power ADAD English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library bigger poem at Simile boad. adjective. mountin So high. personificatian Tonly nosie around is nature. mountain is so big its Overwhelming emthsises reption Power GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Revers Revets to shove 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 distured by winssing And serious mood; but after I had seen The power of nature. 35 That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense 40 There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes nained, 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. *Power of God in Comprasion. Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts about the mountien. disn't stop thinking shoked about the Powerful mantin haunts them day. and ight aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 29 h (C Ferrara had some before, dead. Pronoun My Last Duchess title / important. 1 Robert Browning (1812-1889) That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, dod Looking as if she were alive.I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands hets Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Sang Will't please you sit and look at her? I said '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 The curtain Thave drawn for you, but I) his aute version And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only called that spoty showed happyness to her. Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps Frà Pandolf chanced to say 'Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much,' or 'Paint never hope to reproduce the faint ForShow Must her Half-flush that dies along her throat': such stuff de H20 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 Persoly victorian poet, writing in italan renassons 30 , monerachy. ·artist in the 15th centary, rich people could Pantings. I wealthy s She took pluser in the small things. mightest title below, shigh respect powefue. • brackets = add ctra English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library e-Library dear. curtis giving to the duchess. she didn't always speak with kindness. Jealous, posseive over her. info purity / innocence! directions Jealous of her looking every whear, also reprs look in Out The Panting rocence Erhyming couplets] lambic Pentamer. Tradisonal poem. L GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY housset cart She rode with round the terrace - all and each 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 With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame 35 This sort of trifling? Even had you skill In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, 'Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark'Cand 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; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence talks to obben men desn't like it. Theirarchy + Status ・arragant, angry he's despeing his Social Brackets= tell us about him Seif. •dash = tersian buids of anger. 50 Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object, Nay, we'll go Together down, sin Notice Neptune, though, 55 Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! rising anger at his sellavey of who is looking at = also people smiling at her sportat 다. She got Someone to kill her, Short Sentonces lack of remorse. Shown his dosnt respect women symbolic. Power of god. money you get man marry like on object-not think of her feeling. Based on duice of Perrara whose wife died my stearsly. Boosts of the merder -listers powered next wife socially infiver to him. I patriachal. basts matenau weath. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 31 this poem deteribes the bum betesten british forces & Nuisiain fors ... cool. A The Charge of the Light Brigade didnt ¡govestion 20 Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 1. Half a league, half a league, trugedy. Half a league onward, Mephor for Shadow All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. 5 Forward, the Light Brigade! dieloge Charge for the guns!' he said: Sugent Into the valley of Death commanda Rode the six hundred. Reptition 1 verbs Theirs not to make reply, the mistulheirs not to reason why, 15 Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred 32 2. 'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Trapped/ 3. Surou Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Not tho' the soldier knew made an Some one had blunder'd: Some Ghe mistake reptition Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, advelb Boldly they rode and well, Rode the six hundred. Reptition. Vebs Powerful conifident. Reption Incutail death. Soliders army. Revitichal 10 Was there a man dismay'd? question. 45 They that had fought so well in brigh 30 English Develop your learning on 404 Ençish e-Library Urary > 55 aggressive Powerful 4. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while allitruti All the world wonder'd: Right thro' the line they broke: from gans Plunged in the battery-smoke Smoke Cossack and Russian 35 Reel'd fro the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. deth + Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. 5. Cannon to right of them, 40 Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Into the jaws of Death, met phare/personification 25 Into the mouth of Hell death Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, All that 6. 50 When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! Brave wepans retorend Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, was left of them, W of six hundred. not many ingareys repets the 3rd Standa -now/tive Stanzers shorter Snot all refiventa rethorical question rember prais them compomerer I written 6 weeks fafter bottle. Thas a beak repsents horses organ Shots Ave adse 2 5 6 W 1 Lik g No 10 Far lymp 12 The p 13We on 14 Dawn i 15 Attacks Sibla 16 Sudden s 11 Less dead 18 with sideic 20 We watch ti noi 23 Pale flakes wit 24 We cringe in h 25 snow- 26 Deep into grassi 27 Littered with blos tanda t adscr thovical westion der's butish my. returend many context izers lines Exposure rember Prais them Pomem Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive US elipshis 2 Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent... 3 Low, drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient... 5 Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens. watin, sorgan en 6 weeks er battle beat repsents They are tired lexhausted Pesofication adjectives, scared about whats to come. adjective. g 6 Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, barbed Wive. 1 Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. g Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, 10 Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. Pain Simile. 35. Onmatapocia. Contaious GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Important Sadness , gun five is in What are we doing here? Rethorical question (questionsgrund Point of war) Jelb. The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow ... 13 We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy, phetic pallaciy 14 Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army alitration Subiance, 15 Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, Sad But nothing happens. Reptition nonchalance, Siblance 16 Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Slying fast across 11 Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow, Coldness is worse 18 With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, autation Perfonication 20 We watch them wandering up and down the wind's But nothing happens. veptition 2 3 Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces - Show is frezing men 24 We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, Lacking hope 25 snow-dazed, 26 Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, 27 Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses, death -Is it that we are dying? Rhetoricou question gusting life aça.org.uk/engish-e-library 33 di Co ( Person 1 nor Silbince 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, SU metphor they may die Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed 30 With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; Blood 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. ve radi 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. mass grave can't recoong! them 34 to Yoill them. For love of God seems dying. God Sending weather. familelys closed behind going them Dinnocence left behing Se English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library Lerary did not know the dir (0 people at home th Tellible conditions So the title shows them exposing Cha exposuere has happens. Miten + die - from weather. The men Soffer the Same reption being may sate. 5 грабли! 19 (S 1 2 41 yg fwN 103 Car Sot 10 Forg 11 But t 12 You m 13 Exploc But no: 15 The ven Turned s Bla And straf We are bc Strange, it winc reall 5 Storm on the Island collective (Pronoun sence of unity 1 We are prepared: we build our houses squat, 2 Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. 3 This wizened earth has never troubled us Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) 13 грабли 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 12 -Blunt and explicit. - 'Storm' in the title is Code for Stomont seat of goverment. -Island is an homophone of to Ireland convases the pome is about 1/eland. wind was really strong GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks Or stooks that can be lost. Nor are there trees Which might prove company when it blows full Blast: you know what I mean - leaves and branches Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale They biuld there houses and we prcared for stom. the northen Island preaped for a stom to accove ・Bear before nostacks- Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. oxymoren not affected bud natrees falling. ·levaus and brances negi snap word. metphove, The Storm frighing pormanly varying and is imimily, stom has gone out of. •Stitting whenll dies. on down. engambent= onpreditables wether. the Sentes don't have Pansafter nature Show in a Small com town. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 35 C C Gun S few desperate Peling of fear. adver verb a knife Bayonet Charge ·a verb violent In meadia-les, urugent tone 1 Suddenly he awoke and was running-raw /eptition 2 In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy, Tense atmospher Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing Bullets smacking the belly out of the air He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm: The patriotio tear that had brimmed in his eye love for His Simily. & Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest, Xboling hot simile In bewilderment, then he almost stopped- Hevays 5 confusion Ted Hughes (1930-1998) questigi Simig 10 In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations allitation ensambment FAUSSION etoric Was he the hand pointing that second? He was running Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs 13 Listening between his footfalls for the reason 14 Of his still running, and his foot hung like. Simileys 15 Statuary in mid-stride, Then the shot-slashed furrows Stoped mid ai's Simily 36 adjective -mound of earth metphon radibblances 16 Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame Similg 17 And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide 18 Open silent, its eyes standing out herriffed what is 20 King, honour, human dignity, etcetera een hedge, hey He plunged past with his bayonet toward the 21 Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm 22-To get out of that blue crackling air on materp hear 'velb 23 His terror's touchy dynamite. rowing be like. Scared hinks of life death ·goverment, English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library focuses on Sences. of values countary. • didnot really what was going to and letting young people ace fom no control allitration bomb about to go opp happing. I have dissmier around nim. 5 TU F F W are I see 10 I see t So we' and he SO Thre Ptsd pain itsel Info/one of m 15 and tosse: Then he's c End of story, His blood-sh I walk right ov 20 Then I'm home Remains 1 5 wittes from experences of ex-soldier who suffer from ptsd. Simon Armitage (b. 1963) GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY ConversAHON as if having a convest for everyday On another occasion, we get sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank And one of them legs it up the road, probably armed, possibly not. •Looter-robber, kill the looter ran up the load ・goning into it unknown. procteting idently Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind, reption, all trained or dosn't so all three of us open fire. know who it is Mabey firends P+Sd Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear bulets verb I see every round as it rips through his life-Shot him so manny times. Seethough 10 I see broad daylight on the other side. So we've hit this looter a dozen times 12 very violnt. 11 and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony. Image Ing/One of my mates goes by 15 and tosses his guts back into his body. Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry. agong of Sadness/ Kreaded him bady End of story, except not really. His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol I walk right over it week after week. (20 Then I'm home on leave. But I blink Deveryone see it + will vemind them. Ycan't forget OR excape The memores. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 37 S ( ca flash backs 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- (Ptsd 25 he's here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines, all Soliders held not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand, but near to the knuckle, here and now, 30 his bloody life in my bloody hands. reptition ・givity. has donel Justied actions посо діну adjective, Show heis English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library Lrary about what he Sibilance. The Solider may not feel as gialty if he was in war but this is a Situation. diffrent firts ersor 5 coi các Se Irc as ! 10 uptu of m acros being you we 15 to run i blackth flattened slowly me with you, 1 20 it open, the like a treasu and you wer After you'd g released a so 25 Later a single and this is whe skirting the chu making tucks, d a winter coat or links to Jane Weir (b. 1963) Links to remembrance. Poppies 1 Three days before Armistice Sunday fits and poppies had already been placed person individual war graves. Before you left, pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals 5 spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade Colour yellow bias binding around your blazer. alltration. Sellotape bandaged around my hand, I rounded up as many white cat hairs as I could, smoothed down your shirt's 10 upturned collar, steeled the softening of my face. I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose, play at being Eskimos like we did when you were little. I resisted the impulse 15 to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair. All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, verb slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw 20 it open, the world overflowing GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY links to war but not aspific one. to her son talking. Poppies Pinned on to her blaser. Symiobeses bicoa red Shed Insived. like a treasure chest. A split second and you were away, intoxicated. After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage. 25 Later a single dove flew from the pear tree, 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. links to textiles. memories of him at Schooll flashback). relation Ship from war. memories of and -metaphor - can't find The right words Say +0 Similleg. Childhood. going to war, tries to keep emotions in Ametphove relase the memories love, loss, peace. worried I nervouse about her son. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 39 ( Elegy = addressers +ambiigaurs Shif in time to -amb her sons grave / war +unsure is Son died. of gras for life. 40 30 On reaching the top of the hill I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone. The dove pulled freely against the sky-Peace. Semilek - hope to an ornamental stitch. I listened, hoping to hear 35 your playground voice catching on the wind. keep keep saf and him finde dove metapher image highted. here life unrowselity AGUS English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library mormas. 123 3 64 blagd B H 7 He 8 ben a thou to on LI to fiel 12 of runi con 10 IS Someth Half 4 faintly st dead 15 a half-for 16 of this ma 17 without w 18 and how th LGA hundred a 20 from which h 21 for Sunday's s 22 with tears betu 23From the aerop 24he earns his livir Bc "Only Pick and Send Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) War Photographer Photo room 1 2 In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. 3 The only light is red and softly glows, Cas though this were a church and heSimille. biogda Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Chorch Survices. Places where war Smern Confic OR Confict took place Has to do it He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then they don't dvembile on a though seem to now. Rural England. Home again 10 to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don't explode beneath the feet the battle batdose now due to war trama. 21 -picof Back home in the 12 of running children in a nightmare heat. vincum. Cochey said. what its like back home comped to the batle gild. 13 Something is happening. A stranger's features -Simple Sentance GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY allways has around him. I winding the feim war Photographer Ha faintly start to twist before his eyes, Photos developing. dead15a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries 16 of this man's wife, how he sought approval 17 without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust. JA Must wasn't allowed To interven. fighing in another Countray! LQA hundred agonies in black-and-white Publised in news papers. 20 from which his editor will pick out five or six 21 for Sunday's supplement. The reader's eyeballs prick 22 with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. 23From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where 24he earns his living and they do not care people Battlefeld Care: He has had to (dont Xramure and live though the really people dont care. lack of impact. "Only Pick out 501 Six and Send to news papers. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 41 Tissue 1 5 ( Born in Pakistan brought up in Scotland. (cuital idently) Imtiaz Dharker (b. 1954) Cxtended metphor for life Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things. Paper thinned by age or touching, Iged with identey. Source of hope Identiy Change the kind you find in well-used books, the back of the Koran, where a hand Holy -harking book has written in the names and histories, who was born to whom, 42 If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift, see how easily 15 they fall away on a sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind. experance the height and weight, who 10/died where and how, on which sepia date, rememb pages smoothed and stroked and turned 140 transparent with attention. that rivers make, roads, 20 railtracks, mountainfolds, des ighs bildings (diffrinting 25 An architect could use all this, Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines, the marks Idenity recipe Fine slips from grocery shops Show that say how much was sold bossness and what was paid by credit card about family history Britton place layer over layer, luminous orld script over numbers over line, and never wish to build again with brick symbole and 30 through capitals and monoliting, or block, but let the daylight break of light! through the shapes that pride can make ho hope! find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last, 35 of paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent, turned into your skin. tissues paper to living paper ・gellow Sibilance links to being delecate. difortly. aged old and Place of power Sctvutes though. AGAG English Develop your tearning on AQA English e-Library e-Library change. The Emigrée Cizistants of world •Sibilance = Symbol of light as hope 1 5 The worst nev cant my original vi Chong It may be at howShebut I am bra feals. There once was but my memory for it seems I ne which, I am tol Carol Rumen (b. 194 rather thin idvecuaus. ease of which ∙ryed things get desto. eg ware Change in which we see the world. seprating one nation Leanton delecate The white 10 glow eve and the Simile That ch empirisslike ar Soon 15 It ma but) paper might fly our lives like paper kites. represent fragilty of ifworld made ор T Simily: esally: Paper to take more destorged. Care. need to see Th bi 11 20 The Emigrée 1 free verse- mirrors mood / freedom each Stanza - repsents restrician ∙nacourare. Carol Rumens She never mames the cuntary (b. 1944) nostacic. GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY femmine formphoman speaking -elipsis taking us back to the past. fairy tale There once was a country left it as a child emgrated. but my memory of it is sunlight-clear She rembers everyting clearly. for it seems I never saw it in that November persum war or Some event which, I am told, comes to the mildest city. houppend. The worst news I receive of it cannot break 5 cant my original view, the bright, filled paperweight. mexphor for happyness + Safty. Chong It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, Curel leader.. how Shebut I am branded by an impression of sunlight. fees. war torn Sill has happy memories. The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes 10 glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks • metphove. and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves. Simily = cut of from home land Simile That child's vocabulary I carried here empirislike a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar. Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it. 15 It may by now be a lie, banned by the state but I can't get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight. Xcampears to a pet, The love She has for it. goritey Happy memories. Thanned coulcture / laguge of homeland I have no passport, there's no way back at all She can't go back to here 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. My city takes me dancing through the city 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, 30 and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight. -new Courty to ajust to and Turn new Culture. home land She feels like it comes to her. gental, compeurs City to calm. -personification. ·reptition. goveroment/Tgrent. hope for the Sexture aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 43 1 rephir Dem tell me Dem tell me 10 15 Checking Out Me History 20 Bandage up me eye with me own history 5 Blind me to me own identity battle of reptition 46 John Agard (b. 1949) Wha dem want to tell me Toussaint a slave with vision lick back Janaphora presents his culture. Napoleon battalion Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat But Toussaint L'Ouverture no dem never tell me bout dat fary talle a folk story. Key miltary leader abansing slaves. upset doft never tell him about black hirsty about Quick history him, " fighing against oppression Black Prounded to help othes. and first Black hastings. Republic born Toussaint de thorn to de French 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 I met prove = Speking about only beeing tought about whit history culture. domenet. English Develop your learning on 404 English e-Library lesson ] nursery rhymes - white history" mean to him nothing natanal hero who forgot agains britan Conalism + freed Slaves: 45 40 35 1 2 a to 50 Dem te Dem tel But now I carving 30 40 Nanny see-far woman 45 of mountain dream fire-woman struggle hopeful stream to freedom river Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492 35 but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too non- white history. -> these Qualties sill needed today to inspire people to ressit. oppressan Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp and how Robin Hood used to camp Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soul but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole From Jamaica she travel far to the Crimean War she volunteer to go and even when de British said no she still brave the Russian snow a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise to the dying PAST AND PRESENT POETRY ANTHOLOGY GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE 50 Dem tell me reptition. Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity metphor. dosnt lurn about black hisorical figures. Only turn about white figures. owhite nurse. black nurse over Showed by flurance ningale. Story of meary Secole. link to hopeful & hope in life dosnt have to be one race. to Sussess. Trying to find his own lack of fem stop, nothing has be resolved at the end. identy. aça.crg.uk/english-e-library 45 Kamikaze /Samsy 1 5 BODY Beatrice Garland (b. 1938) ●countary. Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword Japnese culture. in the cockpit, a shaven head Singe of Starts, disspline. full of powerful incantations prayer, veligens. Sucide mission and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history-honored by others. 46 enjambment. he was ready to go on The Juray and die for his but half way there, she thought, recounting it later to her children, Telling he children the he must have looked far down negtive 10 at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea 1 2similes 1&eubration. •Love for contably. 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 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 •Courlows / adjectives. Story. Simile. Sybolice bolites, boday and death -Jog / happness. family / Soliders Trubbling Juveny English Develop your learning on AQA English e-Library Library ・gran 25-yes, grandfather's boa to the shore, salt-sodd with cloud-marked mi black crabs, feathery the loose silver of w 30 a tuna, the dark prir -fami And though he ca my mother never in his presence, and the neighb 35 as though he r only we childr till gradually to be silent he had nev 40 was no lo And som which h ause him m ६४५ 25 grandaughter talking - yes, grandfather's boat - safe to the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel black crabs, feathery prawns, the loose silver of whitebait and once 30 a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. -family dissoned him. And though he came back my mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him 35 as though he no longer existed, GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY only we children still chattered and laughed • alltration / Sibblance. listing fish. also Shund him when they grow up. hero/ Solider is dangarso till gradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned, that this 40 was no longer the father we loved. And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die. Sunned by all them They lost/es pect for him -Still treated Him the same past tense. •didn't think of himsa a father regrest not dyning irany as he loved his famery. how the now they no Goungerdo moden Pome-diffrent to what happens now. hartive-telling a story thang the ракт aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 47