Aqa Anthology of Poetry Quote Booklet

AQA Anthology of Poetry: Power and Conflict
Quote sheets:
 Ozymandias
 London
 The Prelude: Stealing the Boat
 My Last Duchess
 The Charge of The Light Brigade
 Exposure
 Storm on the Island
 Bayonet Charge
 Remains
 Poppies
 War Photographer
 Tissue
 The Emigree
 Kamikaze
 Checking Out Me History
Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Point Evidence Language Structure/Form Social/historical context

‘And wrinkled lip and
sneer of cold command’
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‘”Look on my works, ye ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
Mighty, and despair!"’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘The lone and level sands ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
stretch far away.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘Nothing beside remains:
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round the decay ______________________
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Of that colossal wreck’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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London by William Blake

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‘The mind-forged ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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manacles I hear.’
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‘’Every blackening ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
church appals.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘the youthful harlot’s ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
curse’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘And blights with
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plagues the marriage ______________________
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hearse.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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The Prelude: Stealing the Boat –William Wordsworth

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‘Small circles glittering ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
idly in the moon, Until ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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they melted… into…
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sparkling light.’
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‘Proud of his skill, to ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
reach a chosen point ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
with an unswerving line’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘a huge peak,black and
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huge, as if with ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
voluntary power ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
instinct, upreared its ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
head.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘huge and mighty forms, ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
that do not live like ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
living men…were a ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
trouble to my dreams.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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My Last Duchess – Robert Browning

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‘That’s my last Duchess ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
painted on the wall ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘Looking as if she were
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alive.’
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‘(since none puts by the ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
curtain I have drawn for ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
you but I)’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘…she ranked my gift of ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
a nine-hundred years old ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
name with anybody’s ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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gift.’’
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‘I gave commands; then
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all smiles stopped ______________________
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together.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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The Charge of The Light Brigade – Alfred Tennyson

‘volleyed’ – siimultaneous guns going off – loud,
violent, terrifying. The men fight even
‘Volleyed’, ‘thundered’ – huge crashing noises of battle – Lots of verbs creates
though they are
‘thundered’, pathetic fallacy – something terrible happening. feeling of action – makes
surrounded. They put up a
‘stormed’, ‘stormed’ – suggests anger and noise – links to the battle seem more
thundered.
brave fight and don’t give
‘charged’ real. up easily.
‘charged’ – suggests the soldiers are driven &
confident. They rush forward to attack.
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‘Theirs not to ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
reason why, ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
Theirs but to do ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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and die’
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‘Into the jaws of ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
Death, Into the ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
mouth of Hell’ ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘When can their ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
glory fade? O the ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
wild charge they ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
made!’ ______________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Exposure by Wilfred Owen

‘less deadly’ – the bullets aren’t ______________________

threatening to the soldiers ______________________ The men have been
‘Less deadly than the air ‘shudders’ – personification of the air – it ______________________ stationed in a salient
The weather is a
that shudders black is shivering because it’s cold or it could ______________________ away from conflict. They
powerful enemy. be shivering to show the soldiers’ fear.
with snow.’ ______________________ are exposed to the
‘black’ – associations of fear and death – elements (nature).
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the weather will kill them.
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Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney

‘rock’ – they have built walls within rock – Set in Ireland during the
‘Sink walls in rock and attached to rock. Secure, strong, sturdy. Fricatives in this line ‘troubles’ – they feel
roof them with good Nature protects. emphasise feeling of prepared for trouble as
slate’ ‘good slate’ – natural materials provide security and confidence. they have experienced it
shelter. before.
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‘the flung spray…spits ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
like a tame cat turned ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
savage.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘Space is a salvo. We are ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
bombarded by the ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
empty air.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘Storm on the Island’ ______________________
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Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes

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‘that blue crackling air ________________________________
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His terror’s touchy ______________________ _____________________
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dynamite.’ ______________________ _____________________
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‘The patriotic tear that ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
had brimmed in his eye’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘King, honour, human ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
dignity, etcetera ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
Dropped like luxuries’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘He lugged a rifle numb ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
as a smashed arm’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Remains by Simon Armitage

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‘probably armed, ________________________________
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possibly not’ ______________________ ______________________
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‘so all three of us open ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
fire. Three of a kind’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘the drink and the drugs ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
won't flush him out’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘his bloody life in my ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
bloody hands’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Poppies by Jane Weir

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‘I traced the ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
inscriptions on the war ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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memorial, leaned against
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it like a wishbone.’
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‘…overflowing like a ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
treasure chest… ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
intoxicated.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘spasms of paper red ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
disrupting a blockade…’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘…smoothed down your…
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collar, steeled the ______________________
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softening of my face.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy

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‘Solutions slop in trays ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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beneath his hands’
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‘fields which don’t ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
explode beneath the ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
feet of running children ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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in a nightmare heat.’
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‘A hundred agonies in ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
black and white’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘The reader’s eyeballs ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
prick with tears ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
between the bath and ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
pre-lunch beers’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker

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‘smoothed and stroked ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
and thinned…turned into ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
your skin.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘might fly our lives like ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
paper kites.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘a grand design with ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
living tissue, raise a ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
structure never meant ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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to last’
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‘but let the daylight ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
break through…the ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
shapes that pride can ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
make’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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The Émigrée by Carol Rumens

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‘The worst news…cannot ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
break my original view, ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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the bright, filled
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paperweight.’
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‘It may be at war, it may ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
be sick with tyrants’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘time rolls its tanks ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
and the frontiers rise ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
between us, close like ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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waves.’
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‘They accuse me of ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
absence, they circle me. ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
They accuse me of being ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
dark in their free city.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland

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‘ a shaven head full of ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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powerful incantations’
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‘fishes flashing silver as ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
their bellies swivelled ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
towards the sun’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘they treated him as ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
though he no longer ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
existed’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘he must have wondered
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which had been the ______________________
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better way to die.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Checking Out Me History by John Agard

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‘Dem tell me wha dem ________________________________
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want to tell me’ ______________________ ______________________
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‘Dem tell me bout de
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dish ran away with de ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
spoon but dem never tell ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
me bout Nanny de ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
maroon’’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘a healing star among
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the wounded a yellow ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
sunrise to the dying’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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‘I checking out me own
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history I carving out me ______________________
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identity.’ ________________________________ ______________________ ______________________
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Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Point Evidence Language Structure/Form Social/historical context

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London by William Blake

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The Prelude: Stealing the Boat –William Wordsworth

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My Last Duchess – Robert Browning

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The Charge of The Light Brigade – Alfred Tennyson

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Exposure by Wilfred Owen

‘less deadly’ – the bullets aren’t ______________________

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Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney

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Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes

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Remains by Simon Armitage

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Poppies by Jane Weir

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War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy

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Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker

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The Émigrée by Carol Rumens

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Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland

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