Poetry quotes - power and conflict - GCSE AQA English Literature

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Ozymandias quotes (By Percy Shelley)
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;' 'Nothing beside remains' 'The lone and level sands stretch far away'
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Analyse 'My name is Ozymondias, King of Kings;' 'Nothing beside's remains'
1. Breaks Iambic pentameter: represents feelings of superiority and power over society 2. Cesura at end: represents end of legacy and end of rein- public no longer dictated/ lost authority
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'Lone and level sands stretched far away'
Elongated 'l' and 's' syllables represent Ozymandias' control and dictatorship as a leader - he dies = everyone is dragged a long with him or the quote parallel's him to the lone level sands: one in a million other monarchy that is left and forgotten
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Context of Ozymandias?
Based on a story of Rameses II, who was known as Ozymandias (ruler of air), Egyptian Pharaoh: used slaves to build temple, 8 wives and 100 children, statues built in the valley of kings (based on a story read about his temple)
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London quotes? (By William Blake)
'Mind-forged manacles' 'Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
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Mind-forged manacles analysis?
alliteration of the 'm' consonant - restriction of air when pronouncing syllable : representation of the lack of ability to express opinions or create change : feelings of totalitarian government that does not allow freedom of mind:mind is restricted
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'Marks of weakness, marks of woe'
repetition of marks: (noun) represents how government has control and power over every thing - government marks every thing - labels society as though they are a product/ ownership from gov - all people are property of gov: left misery on all
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Context of London
Disrupted London, controlled by government, children bought by factories from orphanages (chimney sweepers as young as 4), French revolution: C18 reform monarchy, execution of king (Louis XVI), rebellion of people, inspires British
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Context of London (more points)
Child labour in C18th - industrialisation, more factories employ children, small bodies for chimney sweeps and received low pay / William Blake political views: inspired by French revolution: radical and demanded change within society/overrule of gov
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My Last Duchess quotes?
'My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name' 'white mule, she rode around the terrace' 'or blush at least' 'she thanked men' 'who passed with much the same smile' 'then all smiles stopped together'
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'my gift nine-hundred-years-old name'
implying wife should be grateful for his 'gift' of a name, suggests she was not appreciative of him and his prestigious name/ implying she was not as high in social ranking as him, wife is considered ungrateful and suggests she deserves death fate
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'white mule, she rode round the terrace'
oxymoron of 'white mule' white: purity/innocence mule: stupidity = describing her nature: appearing pure and innocent but really impure behind her looks - internal conflict - believes she is promiscuous
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'Or a blush at least' 'She thanked men' 'who passed with much the same smile' then all smiles stopped together'
Internal conflict of the duke towards the duchess, questioning her faithfulness, duke draw's constant internal conclusions implying that she is not grateful enough towards him, is messing around with other men and does not love only him
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Context of My Last Duchess?
Duke:Alfonso II d'Este,the fifth duke of Ferrara (C16th) married 14 year old wife. Wife considered not as well educated/ name not ranked as highly - abandoned her after 2 years before she died-suspicion of poisoning:Duke talks about duchess painting
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The Charge of the Light Brigade quotes?
'Rode the six hundred' 'Not the six hundred' 'Noble six hundred' 'Cannon' (x3 at start of sentences in a row) 'volley'd' 'storm'd' 'thunder'd'
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The Charge of the Light Brigade quotes?
'Theirs not to make reply' 'Theirs not to reason why' 'Theirs but to do and die'
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Structure of The Charge of the Light Brigade?
Dactylic diameter: Horses riding into war- stampede- follows a leader without questioning- loyalty to powerful
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Analysis of 'Storm'd' 'Volley'd' and 'Thunder'd'
All after cannon- representation of fallen soldiers - verbs at the start of the next line - represents unwillingness to surrender - faithfulness and bravery towards power - at sixth stanza verbs in the middle - represents remained/unforgotten legacy
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Analyse 'Cannon to right of them' 'Cannon to left of them' 'Cannon behind them'
Anaphora - represents ongoing firing and death surrounding the soldiers and their lack of fear despite surrounding threats - short consonant 'c' harsh like banging of cannon - anaphora represents soldiers domino death affect-but soldiers still charge
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Analyse 'Rode the six hundred' 'not the six hundred' 'left the six hundred' 'noble six hundred'
'rode the six hundred' at the end of the first three stanza's then 'not the six hundred' 'left the six hundred' 'noble six hundred'-tells story of fallen soldiers:willing and courageous throughout poem:bravery continued till the very end
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Analyse 'Theirs not to make reply' 'Theirs not to reason why' 'Theirs but to do and die'
Courage bravery and willingness to die for their country - committed loyal subjects to the king and their country - follows orders and willing to sacrifice themselves for the safety of others - no question of those in power
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Context of The Charge of the Light Brigade
Crimean war- British troops in Russia - obtained basic guns and were on horse back- light brigade (lightly equipped) - attacked from behind/side- miscommunication of orders so many died - sent head first into cannons - gracious sacrifice
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Exposure quotes:
'our brains ache' 'some other war' 'war lasts, rain soaks. and clouds sag storm' 'sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence' 'slowly our ghosts drag home' 'but nothing happens'
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'but nothing happens'
Repeated at the end of the 1st/3rd/4th/8th(last) stanza : representing the impact on war on solving problems - writer questions the reasons for war- is war really justifiable and logical -anticipation of attack from soldiers in trenches
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'our brains ache'
personal pronoun 'our' represents the soldiers collectiveness and fear/ plosive 'b' represents brains aching from loud bomb ongoing bomb in head 'a' elongated ache of pain - never forgotten pain from loss at war - never ending pain in head -PTSD
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'some other war' 'war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy'
war portrayed as something of normality compared to the weather as though it is something that is of a routine and is only a result of nature : anger at human nature at it's conclusion of war over all conflict like weathers conclusion of rain/ clouds
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'sudden successive flights of bullets steak the silence'
end stopped line - represents the end of peace and the breaking of silence-war's ruin on peacefulness and tranquility/elongated 's' consonant sounds of bombs flying in air-never ending war-peacefulness in mind disrupted by memories of war in soldiers
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'slowly our ghosts drag home'
's' consonant (elongated) represents the slow and painful death of soldiers- drained soldiers of war/ harsh 'g' consonant and soft/silent 'h' consonant: represents the silent suffering of soldiers/harsh scenes of war and left in the soldiers minds
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Exposure context
Owen joined army at 18, wrote poems on the truth about life on the front line for soldiers: contradicted glorified imagery of war, suffered from shell shock PTSD after 2 years on the trench line.
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Storm on the island quotes
'But no.' (caesura) 'spits like a tame cat' 'Turned savage.' 'huge nothing, that we fear'
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'But no.'
Cesura- representing how the weather refuses to give in and carries on causing damage: unpredictable strength of the sublime-ongoing destruction and fear created by nature, doesn't seem to end
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'spits like a tame cat' (enjambement) 'Turned savage.'
Representing the tranquility of the weather and its sudden unexpected uproar juxtaposition of 'tame' and 'savage' represents the dramatic change of the weather: unpredictability of the greater nature
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'huge nothing that we fear' 'bombarded by empty air'
suggests that the only thing to fear is fear itself, human race creates problems larger than they should be and over exaggerates power of nature, perhaps representing the irrational fear of the sublime
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Context of Storm on the island
Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland, eldest child in family of nine, grew up on his family farm as a cattle dealer.
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Links to conflicts in Ireland?
Storm on the island could either be a representation of the greater strength of the weather or the troubles in N.Ireland:IRA illegal terrorists: looted, burned, destroyed N.Ireland to rid British government forces and representatives
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Remains quotes
'his bloody life, in my bloody hands' 'sort of inside out' 'I walk over it week after week' 'Probably armed, possibly not'
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His bloody life in my bloody hands
personal pronoun 'my' represents poets feelings of remorse and blame upon himself for death, even if he was not the only one involved in shooting. Perhaps reference to Lady Macbeth: believes cannot wash blood of hands:goes insane and dies
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More analysis of 'his bloody life in my bloody hands'
Poet feels as though spirit/ death will follow and haunt him for the rest of his life: representing the never ending memories of war and death experienced by soldiers: cannot remove horrors experienced or enemies killed (Lady Macbeth) : PTSD
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'sort of inside out'
metaphor for the mental state of a soldier after war: parallel to dead body on the floor who's organs lay outside the body: soldiers feelings of disorientation and internal conflict over actions:correct or incorrect to shoot another even if for war?
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'I walk over it week after week'
PTSD in soldiers: representing on going memories of war and individual deaths: never ending replay in mind of the horrors of war, constant internal conflict over whether or not lives lost at war were justifiable or if war and death had no reason
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'Probably armed, possibly not'
Confusion and constant contemplation of decision in mind: soldiers constant internal conflict on whether the deaths of the enemies they once had were really upon reason: constant guilt and second guessing of self from PTSD suffering soldiers
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Context of remains
Presents the dark and disturbing image of a soldier suffering from PTSD, representing the ongoing guilt of war and the constant burden of the remembrance of lives lost during wartime for not necessarily justifiable reasoning but for a greater power
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War photographer quotes:
'eye balls ***** with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers' 'only light is red and softly glows' 'a hundred agonies, in black and white'
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'eyes ***** between the bath and pre-lunch beers'
rhyme 'tears' and 'beers' represents disgust and anger of photographer that the tears from exposure to scenes of war could be paralleled to casual pre-lunch beers as though they are part of daily routines
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further analysis:
represents photographers anger at publics lack of sympathy and action taken towards protesting towards war: people overexposed=not affected as much: people forget and carry on with normality: no change taken by public
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'only light is red and softly glows'
'red' and 'softly' juxtaposition red=blood loss at war: representing how the public is 'softly' sheltered from the real truth at war by media and does not truly see the truth of war and its affect on people: anger for photographer: publics sheltered
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'a hundred agonies in black and white'
represents the lack of ability the photographer feels he obtains to create change within society, restricted to what he can expose to public : public only see's images in black and white and do not see real colours(back stories/ fear/ sounds)in image
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Context of war photographer
Written about war photographer Don McCullin, represents the peculiar challenge faced by these individuals: job requires them to record terrible, horrific events without being able to help their subjects.
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Checking out me history
'dem tell me' X2 'Bandage up me eye with me own history' 'but now I checking out me own history'
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Structure/themes of checking out me history
Every quatrain, = starts with dem tell me: emphasises heritage and pride towards Caribbean heritage: importance of history/culture
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'dem tell me' X2
repetition could represent brainwash from society and overpowering influence of the British on other countries cultures/schooling: representing the dictatorship of more powerful countries towards caribbean/polosiv'd'anger and frustration of education
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'bandage up me eye with my own history'
poet feels he has been blinded by British and other countries histories, proceeds to mend this ignorance toward Caribbean history: learning own history=removing old irrelevant history
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'but now I checking out me own history'
poet fights back and makes a stand towards British power over education system: ridiculing them for no education on Caribbean heritage: poet takes learning into own hands in order to retrieve own history: standing up to British powers
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Context of checking out me history
Poet John Agard:born in the Caribbean and moved to UK: uses phonetic spelling to mimic own accent in poetry: writes about challenges of being black and rebels against higher power
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Quotes for Kamikaze
'must' 'father' 'a shaven head full of powerful incantations' 'enough fuel for one way' 'in a figure of eight' 'we too learned to be silent'
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Structural analysis of Kamikaze
Throughout the poem: no mention of father's name: lack of honour and sense of shame for the family towards the failed kamikaze mission.
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More structure analysis
Beginning: writer speaking, gradually transfers to the daughter's narration: perhaps representing only gradual acceptance and difficulty to talk about the shame that people felt towards her father,when underneath she felt still pride and love for him
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modal verb 'must'
Inability to talk to father: silenced due to shame placed by society on failed kamikaze mission: represents neglected relationship and distance created as a result of the prejudice put on the soldiers family from society: relationship ruined
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noun 'father'
lack of personal address of name (formal): no mention of name: lack of personal relationship between father and family: disrespect and shame family feels towards the failed attack or perhaps how society feels family should behave/ react
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'a shaven head full of powerful incantations'
Portray soldiers as monks that are devoting their lives to the great power in their lives, sacrificing their life for their leader. Suggests pilot is not in control of thoughts or actions but instead a subject to power: brainwashed into sacrifice
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'enough fuel for one way'
Only one way and one leader to follow and worship: dictatorship over Kamikaze pilot's: given only one choice to show bravery and claim internal pride: through sacrifice and burning their only fuel (only life) for their dictators/ powers
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'in a figure of eight'
reflection of soldiers mind before attack: whether or not to sacrifice life for leader or to sacrifice pride in self: unsure of whether to resume with attack or to back off (humane thoughts and fears within soldiers head taking over)
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'we too learned to be silent'
overwhelming power from society over both the kamikaze pilot and family: driven by society to neglect relationships and remove feelings of love and remorse for family member due to failed suicide mission: power of society over family: destruction
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Context of Kamikaze?
Social pressures brought to bear on the pilots to carry out kamikaze missions as a part of Japan's war effort during WWII: represents the consequences of suicide missions for families in the modern world and past conflicts
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What is a Kamikaze pilot?
Kamikaze pilot: Japanese pilot who in WWII made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets: usually ships
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Emigree quotes?
'like a hollow doll' - 'I comb its hair and love its shining eyes' 'I can't get it off my tongue' 'my city hides behind me'
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analyse 'like a hollow doll' 'I comb its hair and love its shining eyes' (metaphor)
Providing city with her child like views : represents the child like vision of city she still obtains in her imagination: city is like a doll from childhood: forever remembered but never to be revisited: put away on a shelf: sentimental attachment
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'I can't get it off my tongue'
sensory language: inability to forget or detach herself from her country: like an overpowering sweet taste: bitter sweet: wants to remove taste (attachment) to country, but cannot forget her roots and origin (memories still persist in mind and body)
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'my city hides behind me'
personal pronoun 'my' represents childish possessive nature towards city: childhood attachment and claim of city as though it is a personal possession (doll): hides behind her: past is left behind her and she has not chosen to revisit it but hide it
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Context of The Emigree? Carol Rumens
Explores the memory of the poet and their experiences in a far off city they spent time in as a child. Poet looks at city in childlike way, emigrant = emigree : person who settles in another country, sometimes not feeling welcome to return
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Extract from the prelude quotes
'reach a chosen point' 'I unloosed her chain' 'a huge peak, black and huge' 'upreared its head'
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'reach a chosen point' 'I unloosed her chain'
Represents mankind's feelings of power over all and overwhelming belief that they are the most powerful and significant things on the planet. Pride and power of mankind before the poets realisation of the power of the sublime.
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'a huge peak, black and huge' 'upreared its head'
repetition of adjective 'huge' represents poets inability to comprehend the greatness of nature, almost lost for words and realises his own insignificance and power: nature has overwhelmed him so much : Lack of personification/ use of 'its' poets
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Structure
Long and extended stanza, represents poets overwhelmed feelings and breathlessness from his realisation of the power of nature and mankind's insignificance as an overall race: represents poet's shocked and bewildered feelings when encountering nature
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Context
Romantic poet: power of imagination/ embrace of the natural world - Epic poem: heroic actions: heroic actions of poets realisation of mankind's insignificance
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Repetition of 'no'
Realisation of the extent to which himself and the whole of mankind's knows: represents understanding of own naivety: cannot identify what he does know, only identifies what he does not know
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Bayonet charge quotes:
'Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge' 'In bewilderment he almost stopped' 'The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye'
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'clods' 'bewilderment'
Naivety of soldiers/soldiers act as 'clods' (stupid people) represents that soldiers thrown into war and are inexperienced, too young and clumsy to be fighting a war, soldiers influenced too heavily by propaganda and glorification of war
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'patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye'
Represents the power of higher powers and the media/ propaganda on young and impressionable soldiers: blinding them from what war is truly like, blinding them from their emotions and true feelings towards war and violence
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Context
Soldier going over the top of the trenches. Bayonet: attached to end of knife to stab soldiers , Soldier becomes more of a weapon than a man, rushing towards the enemy. Ted Hughes: former RAF serviceman: looks at man's impact on nature in poems
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Poppies quotes
'spasms of paper red' 'disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer' 'without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf and gloves'
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'spasms of paper red'
Paper: white: peace/purity, describes poppy as 'paper red' representing that poppy is not a sign of peace but instead a sign of lost blood at war, purity stained with blood from war, represents incorrect symbolism, represents true meaning of poppy
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'disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer'
Yellow: joy/happiness: idea of happiness and joy contrasting with the war blazer, there is not joy or glorification in war. Plosive 'b' sound: mothers anger towards sacrificing her son to war/ anger at the representation of war
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'without a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves.'
Mothers feelings of no warmth comfort or purpose: everything is now cold now that the war has taken her son, overwhelming grief has left her cold: trying to find materialistic substances to warm her and take pain away: nothing works
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Context
Mother sending off son to war, grief over loss of son at war, and rememberance of son when he was a child and she still had him safe. The grief the family of a soldier goes through as a result of a war.
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Tissue quotes
'paper that lets light shine through it, this is what could alter things' 'fly our lives like paper kites' 'living tissue' 'turned into your skin'
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'paper that lets light shine through it, this is what could alter things'
Extended metaphor: humans are like paper/ if we let others influence and accept others into society/ their views and cultures: we can live in peace and together or humans are translucent and are too heavily influenced by materialistic objects
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'fly our lives like paper kites'
The overwhelming influence of paper (money) on our lives and how we stress over materialistic matter and how our lives our altered by our possession of paper
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'living tissue' 'turned into our skin'
Tissue/ materialistic matter makes us as humans, we forget our human nature and emotions: instead are driven by the power of money and materialistic wealth. This is a life that will never last: one that is living as tissue (tissue is disposable)
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Context:
Poem looks at modern world: conflict and troubles, destruction, war and politics as well as money and wealth. Remarks how nothing is meant to last and instead we should be willing to let go and pass things on in their time to be remade.
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