Power and Conflict Knowledge Organiser

1. Ozymandias (Oz) - narrator meets a traveller who tells him the story of a fallen statue. Although powerful in life, all that remains is his crumbled remains.

2. London – narrator walks the streets of London and sees all the misery and suffering. The powerful people who should help are ignorant and actually seem to be the problem.

3. The Prelude (Stealing the boat) – The narrator finds a boat and begins happy + at one with nature. However as the night comes the shape of a mountain overpowers him and he becomes afraid.

4. My Last Duchess (MLD) – Duke unveils the portrait of his dead Duchess; he recounts her flirtatious behaviour. He has her murdered. Now arranging his next marriage, he celebrates his statue.

5. Charge of the Light Brigade (CLG)- Battle of Balaclava. After a mistake the cavalry are sent with swords to fight against the guns of the Russians and vast numbers die. The soldiers follow orders.

6. Exposure- soldiers in the trenches endure the bitter cold which poses the greatest danger. They imagine home but the cold and images of death is more powerful.

7. Storm On the Island (SOI) - a storm is coming to a prepared local community. As the storm hits, its power and the noises of the storm scare the inhabitants and leaves them with fear as it hits.

8. Bayonet Charge (BC) – a soldier is running across the field of battle. His patriotism is diminishing as fear and terror take over his emotions.

9. Remains – soldiers shoot a man on patrol as he robs a bank. Unsure if he was armed, the group of soldiers shoot anyway. The image haunts the soldier long after the conflict.

10. Poppies – mother says goodbye to her son as he goes to the army and war. The sad loss is explored as she desperately tries to find him. The poem hints he may have died during conflict.

11. War Photographer (WP) – developing images in his dark room the photographer is reminded of the horror of battle which haunts him. This is compared to the readers of papers in UK who don’t really care.

12. Tissue – paper records our history and even though fragile it has control over our life. Creation is precious and complex, but also temporary and continually changing as the life continues.

13. Emigree – speaker’s positive memories of a country left as a child. The city is under attack. Others threaten the speaker about her city, but she still sees it positively.

14. Kamikaze – Pilot sets off to his death. The pilot did not complete the mission because of nature and the beauty of his simple life. This brought dishonour to his family; they ignored him.

15. Checking Out Me History (COMH)- narrator reflects on what he is taught and how his education neglected important figures from different cultures. He finds his identity from looking into his heritage.

Form and structure Key themes Possible contexts Poetic devices Dramatic monologue Power of humans Effect of punctuation

Sonnet Power of nature  Power and the lasting legacy of power Repetition

First person Effects of conflict  Highlighting oppression and unfairness Sense imagery

Rhyming couplets Reality of conflict  Spiritual development of the human mind Irony Enjambment Internal conflict Onomatopoeia  Moral development of the human mind Regular stanzas Loss and absence Assonance  Control and patriarchy Third person Identity Sibilance  Following orders and respect for authority Chronological Individual experience Personification  Pity of war Present tense memory Alliteration  Being exposed to nature Past tense Anger Similes  War and the experience of the soldier Blank verse guilt Metaphors  PTSD and attitudes to war then and now Conversational Fear Rhyme  caesura Pride Remembrance Rhythm uneven line lengths Patriotism  Mother’s experience of conflict Voices irregular rhythm  Letting go and moving forward Setting flashback  Displacement and childhood experiences Colloquial language end stopped  Identify and history Questions reported speech Phonetic spellings

Last line effects

Tone