Links Between Poems

In an effort to go paperless, I'm adding this resource online for you to have and revise with. This has information about the links between all of the poems we are going to study. This is a found resource meaning the work is not mine.
-------------
Ozymandias
Thematic or contextual links:
"My Last Duchess" also presents ideas about social control: both Ozymandias and the Duke proudly protect their power.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"Ozymandias" uses a distanced third person speaker, while "My Last Duchess" is a dramatic monologue providing the Duke's voice first hand.

London
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Checking Out Me History", "London" shows awareness of the oppression of different social groups, but is from the eighteenth century, while "Checking Out Me History" is contemporary.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"London" uses a very measured and regular rhythm and rhyme scheme; "Checking Out Me History" uses two different stanza layouts to present the different social groups it features.

Extract from "The Prelude"
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Remains", this extract explores the effects of one moment on the mind, but "The Prelude" is strongly influenced by its context of Romanticism.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both use a first person viewpoint, but the voice in "Remains" is more modern and colloquial.

My Last Duchess
Thematic or contextual links:
"London" also criticizes the structures and system of social class.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"London" openly criticizes the class system using an outsider viewpoint; the Duke's voice relies on the reader to infer Browning's criticism.

The Charge of the Light Brigade
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Exposure", this poem explores the catastrophic effects of war upon individual soldiers.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both make strong use of repetition and sound patterning.

Exposure
Thematic or contextual links:
"Bayonet Charge" also presents a soldier's First World War experience, but was written later and not from personal experience.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"Exposure" uses a more formal stanza structure; the more modern "Bayonet Charge" employs more enjambment and less repetition and rhyme.

Storm on the Island
Thematic or contextual links:
The extract from "The Prelude" also explores the power of nature.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both use a first person voice; neither are broken into stanzas.

Bayonet Charge
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Kamikaze", this focuses on one moment in wartime, but "Bayonet Charge" describes what happens around that moment whereas "Kamikaze" explores the impact of that moment on the rest of the pilot's life.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both poems use a third person viewpoint, but "Kamikaze" uses words and phrases that create a storytelling atmosphere while "Bayonet Charge" has a more condensed style, using harsher sound techniques as well as imagery to create its effects.

Remains
Thematic or contextual links:
"War Photographer" also explores the effects of conflict, but while "Remains" focuses on the devastating effects on the soldier, "War Photographer" focuses on the lack of effect on the public, and how the photographer feels about this.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"Remains" uses enjambment between stanzas; "War Photographer" uses end-stopping.

Poppies
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Exposure", this explores ideas about family and home in the context of conflict. While "Poppies" presents a mother's thoughts on her son's departure for war, "Exposure" features the soldiers' yearning for home.
Voice or formal/structural links:
While both have a first person speaker, "Poppies" uses direct address to include the son.

War Photographer
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "The Charge of the Light Brigade", this is concerned with how the public reacts to conflict.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both use a third person viewpoint, but in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" the tone is celebratory while in "War Photographer" it is resigned.

Tissue
Thematic or contextual links:
"Poppies" is also about memory, but "Tissues" explores this in terms of records.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both use imagery related to texture and layering.

The Emigree
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Checking Out Me History", this explores ideas about resisting the abuse of power.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"Checking Out Me History" uses distinct stanza layouts and dialect; "The Emigree" uses vivid imagery.

Checking Out Me History
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Ozymandias", this shows a decline of power, but this is explicit in "Ozymandias" while "Checking Out Me History" describes how power is reclaimed.
Voice or formal/structural links:
Both poems use form to highlight meaning: "Ozymandias" is a sonnet which deviates from traditional forms; "Checking Out Me History" uses two different stanza layouts to separate British and Caribbean culture.

Kamikaze
Thematic or contextual links:
Like "Remains", this shows the impact of one moment on a person's like, although in "Remains" this event is in the recent past.
Voice or formal/structural links:
"Remains" uses a strong first person voice, while "Kamikaze" mostly uses a third person speaker to evoke a story-like tone.