Tuesday 23rd May 2023

Power & Conflict Revision

How does Priestley present gender inequality and the priorities of the upper class?
Task: Annotate each quote answering the big question.

1. “After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals” -

2. “It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”
3. “I insisted on Daisy moving into these rooms and I made her take some money to keep her
going there"
4. "I want you to understand that I didn’t install her there so I could make love to her"
5. “That man wasn’t a police officer…I’m almost certain”
6. “Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”

When annotating, label the word class of what you would zoom in on and use the sentence
starter – On the other hand, it could also reflect...
 Compare how the poets present the power of nature in extract from 'The Prelude' and one
- Compare methods, context and ideas other poem of your choice.
- Analyse form, structure and language. Plan answers to the
following essays Half sun, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
One Summer evening (led by her) identifying the And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
similarities and […]
Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point differences. And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
When, from behind […]
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
A huge peak, black and huge'
Nothing beside remains Round the decay
[…]
[…]
The lone and level sands stretch far away;
Upreared its head

Were a trouble to my dreams'.

Form = epic poem Form = sonnet

Structure = caesura Structure = caesura

Extract from 'The Prelude' 'Ozymandias'

 Compare how the poets present memory in 'The Emigree' and one other poem of
- Compare methods, context and ideas your choice.
- Analyse form, structure and language. Plan answers to the
following essays
identifying the Her father embarked at sunrise
There once was a country... I left it as a child similarities and […]
But my memory of it is sunlight clear differences. And remembered how he
[…] And his brothers waiting on the shore
It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants […]
But I am branded by an impression of sunlight. - Yes, grandfather's boat -
[…] And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered
But my city comes to me in its own white plane Which had been the better way to die,'
It lies down in front me
[…]
I comb its hair and love its shining eyes

[…] My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

6 lines stanzas
Form – Free verse
Structure = shifts in
Structure – motif of sunlight
narrative perspective
Extended metaphor for lost childhood.

'The Emigree' 'Kamikaze'

 Compare how the poets present the impact of conflict in 'Remains' and one other poem of your choice.
- Compare methods, context and ideas Plan answers to the
- Analyse form, structure and language. following essays
identifying the In his darkroom, he is finally alone
On another occasion, we get sent out similarities and […]
[…] differences.
Beneath his hands, which did not tremble then
I see every round as it rips through his life- though seem to now.
I see broad daylight on the other side. […]
To fields which don't explode beneath the feet
[…] sort of inside out,
[…] The reader's eyeballs prick
Pain itself, the image of agony With tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.
[…] […] they do not care .
His bloody life in my bloody hands'
-why is it written in third
person perspective?
Form – dramatic monologue
Structure – beginning – in media res - Six lines per stanza, constant
End – allusions to Macbeth – why? ABBCDD rhyme scheme.

'War Photographer'
'Remains'
 Compare how the poets present power in 'London' and one other poem of your choice
- Compare methods, context and ideas Plan answers to the
- Analyse form, structure and language. following essays
identifying the Ferrara that's my last Duchess painted on the wall
similarities and […]
I wander through each chartered street, differences. Will't you please sit and look at her?
Near where the chartered Thames does flow […]
[…] - Too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er
In every cry of every man, She looked on, and her looks went everywhere
In every infant's cry of fear, […]
[…] My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
The mind-forged manacles I hear […]
I gave commands;
[…] Then all smiles stopped together
Every black'ning church appalls
[…] Form – dramatic monologue
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse' Iambic pentameter – could it reflect
traditional and conservative views of
Form – dramatic monologue women
ABAB rhyme scheme, quatrains – why?

'My Last Duchess'

'London'