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AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present Power and Conflict: Section B: Poetry

This document provides an excerpt from the AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present focusing on the section titled "Power and Conflict". It lists 15 poems studied under this theme and the assessment question asking students to compare how the poems "Remains" by Simon Armitage and one other poem from the section present ideas about guilt. The question is worth 30 marks.

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AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present Power and Conflict: Section B: Poetry

This document provides an excerpt from the AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present focusing on the section titled "Power and Conflict". It lists 15 poems studied under this theme and the assessment question asking students to compare how the poems "Remains" by Simon Armitage and one other poem from the section present ideas about guilt. The question is worth 30 marks.

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Section B: Poetry

You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on this section.


Answer one question.

AQA Anthology: Poems Past and Present

Power and Conflict

The poems you have studied are:

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias


William Blake London
William Wordsworth The Prelude: stealing the boat
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade
Wilfred Owen Exposure
Seamus Heaney Storm on the Island
Ted Hughes Bayonet Charge
Simon Armitage Remains
Jane Weir Poppies
Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer
Imtiaz Dharker Tissue
Carol Rumens The émigree
Beatrice Garland Kamikaze
John Agard Checking Out Me History
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1. Compare the ways poets present ideas about guilt in ‘Remains’ and in one other poem
from ‘Power and Conflict’
5 [30 marks]

Remains

0 On another occasion, we get sent out


to tackle looters raiding a bank.
And one of them legs it up the road,
probably armed, possibly not.

Well myself and somebody else and somebody else


5 are all of the same mind,
so all three of us open fire.
Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear

I see every round as it rips through his life –


I see broad daylight on the other side.
0 So we’ve hit this looter a dozen times
and he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out,

pain itself, the image of agony.


One of my mates goes by
and tosses his guts back into his body.
5 Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry.

End of story, except not really.


His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol
I walk right over it week after week.
Then I’m home on leave. But I blink
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and he bursts again through the doors of the bank.


Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not.
Dream, and he’s torn apart by a dozen rounds.
And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out –
5

he’s here in my head when I close my eyes,


5 dug in behind enemy lines,
not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land
or six-feet-under in desert sand,
but near to the knuckle, here and now,
his bloody life in my bloody hands.
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SIMON ARMITAGE

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