[Poll] Which poem did you compare to? English Lit paper 2

Poll

Power and conflict -which poem did you compare to war photographer?

dannythewhale_

Curious to see which ones were popular/less popular.

Reply 1

aliya19

The Emigreé for power and conflict

Reply 2

chibibotto

I'm so basic, I compared to Remains like everyone else in my school but that's because I couldn't make a strong enough link to any others as I'm not great at English Lit lmao

Reply 3

watershower

You know, I’m so mad 😂 I wanted this to be my poem for year of 2018, would have gotten an a for sure!
Instead we got bloody ozymandias

Reply 4

Olxvxa

poppies for power and conflict but idk if it was a good idea as everyone did remains

Reply 5

chibibotto

Personally I would have preferred Ozymandias haha

Original post by watershower

You know, I’m so mad 😂 I wanted this to be my poem for year of 2018, would have gotten an a for sure!
Instead we got bloody ozymandias

Reply 6

aliya19

Original post by Olxvxa

poppies for power and conflict but idk if it was a good idea as everyone did remains

I know, everyone did remains in my school and I did The Emigreè. I'm starting to regret it now.

Reply 7

sonu2003

Yh Ozymandias is the easiest poem thats why the grade boundary was so high last year, it would go down this year

Original post by chibibotto

Personally I would have preferred Ozymandias haha

Reply 8

DaQuestioner

Also, it was a specimen paper that they literally printed out and gave to them to do in the actual GCSE exam, so almost everyone had already seen the paper and practiced with it.

Original post by sonu2003

Yh Ozymandias is the easiest poem thats why the grade boundary was so high last year, it would go down this year

Reply 9

DaQuestioner

(Last year, I mean)

Original post by DaQuestioner

Also, it was a specimen paper that they literally printed out and gave to them to do in the actual GCSE exam, so almost everyone had already seen the paper and practiced with it.

Reply 10

chibibotto

Yeah, I remember the English teachers at my school were telling last year's year 11s not to revise Ozymandias as it was in the spec paper, and little did they know they going to end up with that one 😂

Original post by DaQuestioner

Also, it was a specimen paper that they literally printed out and gave to them to do in the actual GCSE exam, so almost everyone had already seen the paper and practiced with it.

Reply 11

ihavegivenup

Poppies was my choice for those of you were worried about it : these are the links I made ;
"Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows" --> "individual war graves" (linked with the physical effects of war, people dying and showing how it effects an individual )
"Solutions slop in trays " ---> "steeled the softening of my face" (linked with the idea of war causing PTSD/Long lasting affects of war)
"a half formed ghost " --- > "spasms of paper red" (linked with the idea of war causing PTSD through the idea of memory suppression OR it shows the brutality of war and how deadly war can be)
"he looks impressively from above where he makes his living and they do not care " ----> "I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind" (linked to the idea of how war can make a person ignorant to the suffering of society in WP and how it becomes a critique of society however in Poppies, the mother desperately wants her son)
I also linked other quotations like "released a songbird from its cage" and talked about their effects in some detail
hoping for a grade 6 !