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1. The Manhunt Simon Armitage2. Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3. London William Blake 4. The Soldier Rupert Brooke 5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron6. Living Space Imtiaz Dharker7. As Imperceptibly as Grief Emily
Dickinson 8. Cozy Apologia Rita Dove 9. Valentine Carol Ann Duffy 10. A Wife in London Thomas Hardy 11. Death of a Naturalist Seamus Heaney12. Hawk Roosting Ted Hughes 13. To Autumn John Keats 14. Afternoons Philip Larkin 15. Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 16. Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 17. Mametz Wood Owen Sheers 18. Excerpt from The Prelude William
Wordsworth
You will have studied all these poems by Y11Make sure your know the narrative for each poem, including the 5Ws
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The Manhunt
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You have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember
any quotes?
The poem is about a soldier who has returned after being horribly injured – it is told from his wife’s perspective as she tries to help him overcome initially his physical wounds, eventually tracing the ‘source’ of his injuries: the mental and emotional wounds he has suffered.
“only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face”
“sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
“then and only then did I come close”
Frozen
Mine
Close
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Sonnet 43
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Sonnet 43The poet explores the reasons for loving her partner (after falling out with her parents) and how it will only become stronger and stronger, even after death
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach”
“I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs”
“if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
Depth
Griefs
Better
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London
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narrative of the poem. You have 5 minutes.
CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
Blake reflects on the poverty-stricken streets of London, including sad observations about wealth, power and corruption, and the impact of these issues on its poorest citizens. Blake wanted things to change. He thought it was wrong that the poor suffered so badly.
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“mind-forged manacles”
“every black’ningchurch appals”
Marks
Manacles
Church
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The Soldier
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about a soldier in WW1 who, on the eve of his departure for war, is contemplating dying for his county. He is proud to think that if he is killed, his body will carry some of England into the ground where he will be buried.
“some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England”
“a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware”
“a pulse in the eternal mind”
Field
Dust
Eternal
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She Walks in Beauty
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poet admires the grace and poise of a woman whose dark-haired appearance was distinctive and unusual.
“of cloudless climes and starry skies”
“one shade the more, one ray the less”
“A heart whose love is innocent!”
Cloudless
Shade
Innocent
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Living Space
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about the challenging living conditions in the poorest parts of a Mumbai slum, and the way that life clings on in these areas.
“nothing is flat or parallel”
“eggs in a wire basket”
“hung out of the dark edge of a slanted universe”
Flat
Eggs
Slanted
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As imperceptibly as Greif
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about time passing and the end of summer. It is also a metaphor for growing older.
“The Summer lapsed away”
“As twilight long begun”
“Our summer made her light escape into the beautiful”
Summer
Twilight
Escape
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Cosy Apologia
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
A wife celebrates the time she gets to spend with her husband as they wait out a hurricane, safe at home. The hurricane stirs up unsettling memories of her past, and at the end she implies that this stolen time together is special, expressing gratitude for their relationship.
“Chain mail glinting, to set me free”
“Teenage crushes on worthless boys whose only talent was to kiss you senseless”
“We’re content, but fall short of the Divine”
Glinting
Teenage
Content
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Valentine
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The narrator explains and justifies their choice of an onion as a Valentine’s Day present to a lover, comparing it to their relationship.
“it will blind you with tears”
“Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful”
“platinum loops shrink to a wedding-ring, if you like”
Tears
Kiss
Platinum
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A Wife in London
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
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Death of a Naturalist
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about a boy who plays in the marshes one hot summer, and is fascinated by nature. However as he grows up his interest turns to disgust, as he misunderstands the intentions of the noisy ‘great slime kings’, and runs from his childhood passion.
“warm thick slobber of frogspawn”
“the daddy frog was called a bullfrog”
“the great slime kings were gathered there for vengeance”
Slobber
Daddy
Vengeance
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Hawk Roosting
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about a hawk who is sitting at the top of a tree surveying the world beneath him. This could reflect the ‘voice’ of any apex predator at
the peak of their power.
“in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat”
“now I hold Creation in my foot”
“I am going to keep things like this”
Rehearse
Creation
Keep
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To Autumn
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about autumn and covers the three stages of the season – the beginning when fruit/plants are ready to harvest, the middle when animals go into hibernation and things begin to die, and the end as winter begins.
“Fill all fruit with ripeness to the core”
“on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep”
“Where are the songs of Spring?”
Ripeness
Furrow
Songs
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Afternoons
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about a group of mothers who gather at a playground with their young children. The poem suggests their lives revolve around their children and they have no time for themselves anymore.
“Summer is fading the leaves fall in ones and twos”
“An estateful of washing”
“Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives”
Fading
Washing
Side
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Dulce et Decorum Est
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
Told in first person, this is the story of a soldier’s horror and sorrow, and the bitterness and frustration he feels towards those promoting the glory of war, after witnessing the prolonged and gruelling death of a comrade who was gassed whilst returning from front line duty in the trenches of WW1
“bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
“He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
“The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori”
Beggars
Choking
Lie
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Ozymandias
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OzymandiasThe narrator recounts meeting a traveller who has been to an ‘antique land’ and has seen the remnants of the statue of Ozymandias, who was a tyrannical ruler of Egypt –his kingdom and statue have been destroyed by time and nature.
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“look on my works, ye mighty and despair”
“nothing beside remains”
Traveller
Mighty
Remains
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Mametz Wood
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Owen Sheers, a modern Welsh poet, writes about those killed during at Mametz Wood, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 – many who died during the battle were buried, anonymously where they fell. The poem was written and set much later, showing the lasting effects of war. Sheers was inspired by the discovery of a tomb of 20 unnamed Allied soldiers, who are likely to have been members of the 38th Welsh Division, who fought for five days and suffered very heavy losses at Mametz Wood.
“the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades”
“like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin”
“a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm”
Wasted
Surface
Mosaic
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Excerpt from The Prelude
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have 5 minutes.CHALLENGE: Can you remember any quotes?
The poem is about a group of children who enjoy ice skating in winter – the speaker is looking back on his own childhood and reflecting on their adventure.
“It was a time of rapture: clear and loud”
“The Pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare”
“The orange sky of evening died away.”
Rapture
Pack
Orange