AQA Power and conflict cluster – guess the poem
London
Ozymandias
‘The mind-forged manacles I
hear:’
‘I met a traveller from an
My Last Duchess
Poppies
‘I gave commands; / Then all
smiles stopped together.’
‘a single dove’
Kamikaze
My Last Duchess
‘a one-way / journey into
history’
‘Looking as if she were alive.’
My Last Duchess
Tissue
‘My gift of a nine-hundredyears-old name’
‘raise a structure / never meant
to last,’
War Photographer
Poppies
‘Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh.
All flesh is grass.’
‘spasms of paper red’
The Charge of the Light
Brigade
The Charge of the Light
Brigade
‘Came thro’ the jaws of Death’
‘Plunged in the battery-smoke’
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AQA Power and conflict cluster – Taboo
Remains
The Prelude:
Stealing the Boat
‘Well myself and somebody else
and somebody else’
‘It was an act of stealth And
troubled pleasure,’
Remains
War Photographer
‘his bloody life in my bloody
hands.’
‘Something is happening.’
Storm on the Island
Tissue
‘You might think that the sea is
company,’
‘If buildings were paper,’
Exposure
Storm on the Island
‘Slowly our ghosts drag home:’
‘We are prepared: we build our
houses squat,’
Checking Out Me History
Remains
“and how Robin Hood used to
camp”
‘probably armed, possibly not.’
The Emigrée
Kamikaze
‘My city takes me dancing
through the city of walls.’
‘- yes, grandfather’s boat –’
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Checking Out Me History
The Prelude:
Stealing the Boat
‘Dick Whittington and he cat’
‘She was an elphin pinnace;’
London
Ozymandias
‘the marriage hearse.’
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty,
and despair!’
Bayonet Charge
Exposure
‘Suddenly he awoke and was
running — raw’
‘Our brains ache,’
The Emigree
War Photographer
‘There was once a country …’
‘A hundred agonies in black-andwhite’
Bayonet Charge
Bayonet Charge
‘His terror’s touchy dynamite.’
‘King, honour, human dignity,
etcetera’
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AQA Power and conflict cluster – guess the poem
Teaching notes
1. Print out sets of cards so that you have enough for each group of three to four
students.
2. Cut out the cards and laminate them if possible, then give a set to each group,
face down.
3. The first student reads out the quote on the first card to their group. Whoever
identifies the poem wins the card. After three turns the pack is passed on to the
next group member.
4. The game ends when all the cards are won.
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