Revision pack: Power and Conflict

Written for the Power and conflict cluster of the AQA poetry anthology, Power and conflict student revision is an illustrated revision workbook comprising detailed, handwritten notes and activities to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding of the poems.

Perfect for revision and consolidation prior to the exam.

What’s included
15 sections (one per poem), each containing illustrated revision notes and engaging revision activities
extension tasks focused on language, structure and themes
exam-style questions.

What’s inside
Introduction (page 3)
Summary of themes for revision (pages 3-5)
Revision notes and activities (pages 6-161)
Featured poems:
‘Ozymandias’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘London’ – William Blake
‘The Prelude’ (extract from) – William Wordsworth
‘My Last Duchess’ – Robert Browning
‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson
‘Exposure’ – Wilfred Owen
‘Storm on the Island’ – Seamus Heaney
‘Bayonet Charge’ – Ted Hughes
‘Remains’ – Simon Armitage
‘Poppies’ – Jane Weir
‘War Photographer’ – Carol Ann Duffy
‘Tissue’ – Imtiaz Dharker
‘The Emigrée’ – Carol Rumens
‘Checking Out Me History’ – John Agard
‘Kamikaze’ – Beatrice Garland
Answers (page 162)

Example revision activities from the student workbook:

Zooming in on ‘Ozymandias’
What quotations can you find which give us a hint about the sort of leader Ozymandias was when he was alive?
What is the effect of the story being told to us by a person who has not seen the statue for themselves, but is just retelling details of something he was once told about?
How does Shelley use sound for effect within the poem?
Why do you think the statue is now broken? What possibilities are there? What wider messages are there in the image of this broken statue and its inscription?
Why is the statement written on the pedestal ironic?

Diamond nine:
Find a short quotation to support each of the diamond-nine statements. Explain why the quotation you found supports the statement.

Exam-style questions:
Compare the ways poets present ideas about the power of nature in ‘Ozymandias’ and ‘Storm on the Island’.
Discuss the ways in which poets present human power within ‘Ozymandias’ and one other poem.