REVISION SHEETS
Power and Conflict
15 poetry revision sheets. View each sheet online or download its printable PDF.
15 sheets
Ozymandias
Power leaves claims behind; surviving art makes those claims vulnerable to judgement.
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London
Oppression is a system shaping bodies, voices and even the ways people imagine freedom.
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Extract from The Prelude
Nature overturns the young speaker’s self-assurance and remains powerful inside his imagination.
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My Last Duchess
The Duke’s attempt to control a woman’s image exposes his own possessiveness.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Public honour celebrates the soldiers while the poem also records the failure that endangered them.
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Exposure
War destroys through exhaustion and waiting as well as battle; nature defeats the promise of military purpose.
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Storm on the Island
Preparation offers limited protection when an invisible force makes human confidence collapse.
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Bayonet Charge
Physical terror strips the soldier of the abstract ideals that might once have justified battle.
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Remains
A shooting that seems finished remains mentally present because responsibility and uncertainty have not ended.
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Poppies
Separation can turn ordinary acts of care into an intense private encounter with public conflict.
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War Photographer
Making suffering visible does not guarantee that distant viewers will accept responsibility.
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Tissue
Human structures might become more humane if they accepted permeability, fragility and change.
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The Émigree
Remembered belonging can resist political exclusion while remaining selective and idealised.
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Checking Out Me History
Identity develops through questioning the histories that institutions choose to make visible.
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Kamikaze
A decision to survive can lead to social exclusion so severe that ordinary ideas of life and death become unstable.
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